Interactive marketing mini-conglomerate Think Partnership has completed its acquisition of online lead generation company iLead Media, reports DM News. Think paid the shareholders of iLead $9.2 million in cash and will also issue to them shares in the company's stock....
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Nike and Apple have partnered to create a line of Nike+iPod products, the first of which is the Sport Kit, a wireless system that facilitates communication between Nike+ footwear and iPods via an in-shoe sensor and a receiver attached to...
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Michael Barrett, EVP of AOL's Media Networks division, has left to join Fox Interactive Media (FIM), after having "guided AOL through a digital media resurgence" in the past two years, writes ClickZ. Kathleen Kayse, previously SVP of sales, has replaced...
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The McClatchy Company has sold the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sister paper, the Daily News, to a group of local investors new to the newspaper world who paid $562 million - $515 million in cash, and $47 million in pension...
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Database giant infoUSA has announced its agreement to acquire New Jersey-based list broker and manager Mokrynskidirect, whose customer base is mainly consumer catalog-oriented, writes BtoB (via MediaBuyerPlanner). Under the deal expected to close May 31, Mokrynskidirect's existing management and name...
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To promote "An Inconvenient Truth," their global-warming movie/documentary, former Vice-President Al Gore and Paramount Classics have partnered with MySpace because it has "a unique ability to mobilize its community around an urgent cause," Gore said in a statement. MediaPost writes...
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AOL plans to launch a search function this summer aimed specifically at broadband users, reports CNET. "When we launched AOL.com seven to eight months ago, we designed it to be a broadband portal," Jonathan Miller, CEO and chairman of AOL,...
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Affiliate network Commission Junction (a division of ValueClick) today announced its decision to change its fundamental link structure - the means through which affiliates send traffic to advertisers - from HTML to Java script, writes Jeff Molander on ThoughtShapers.com. The...
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Yahoo and eBay have reached a multiyear advertising and business partnership to better compete against search leader Google, Reuters reports (via Search Engine Lowdown). Their joint efforts will begin this year. Yahoo will be the exclusive third-party provider of graphic...
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