In a resource-saving public relations move, Amazon.com is using some of its most zealous users to give reporters...
Despite the cultural phenomenon that Facebook and MySpace have become in the past few years, 55% of top-brand...
Online reviews and comments written by users — often overlooked by marketers in favor of things they can...
Beginning this week, jewelry designer Ivanka Trump will be guest-blogging on Brides.com's Wedded Bits channel. The mogul will...
Data storage firm SanDisk enlisted Cohn & Wolf to promote a three-day sale across social networks. Sale items...
Cyber Monday is gaining steam as a favorite holiday shopping day. 26% of respondents plan to shop on...
Email, news gathering and paying bills remain the most widely-used online activities among US adults.
But downloading TV programs,...
"Britney Spears" was the most-searched term on Yahoo.com this year, but the epic tale of Barack Obama's presidential...
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1st) and Cyber Monday...
Regulatory filings reveal that billionaire hedge-fund manager Carl Icahn bought nearly 7 million additional shares — about $67...
Last week New York Times president Scott Heekin-Canedy released an eight-page memo praising the success of the newspaper's...
Judge Richard Kramer of the California Superior Court has dismissed a lawsuit against Google and Yahoo, which were...
Americans conducted 12.6 billion core searches in October 2008 — up 7% from September — while Google Sites...
Behavioral ad firm Phorm lost four board members, reportedly because they disagreed with CEO Kent Ertugrul about the...
Yahoo is availing its search technologies and infrastructure to parties that want to improve their site-specific search engine....
Nearly 60% of mobile-phone users say carry their cell phone with them "at all times" — including inside...
Political news site The Huffington Post received $25 million in a financing round led by VC firm Oak...
Microsoft has partnered with brick-and-mortar movie rental firm Blockbuster to serve films on mobile devices.
"Eventually, we'll give customers...
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday...
Ad Networks and Analytics:
Media6 Degrees, a social graph-mapping ad company, has exited beta. The firm promises to provide...
Facebook has launched Facebook Connect, a system that lets members use their login information to access other websites,...
Editors at Gawker, Gizmodo and Jezebel blogs are facing the axe.
Gawker editor Sheila McClear has been let go,...
NetShelter has launched an offering that enables marketers, publishers and consumers to communicate openly about products and services.
Headed...
Only 28% of the audience of an average news program, website or magazine gets valuable information about products...
Ex-AOL CEO Jonathan Miller is talking with private investors in hopes of obtaining part of all of Yahoo,...
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may consider auctioning public airwaves to private companies — on the condition...
Two-thirds (70%) of consumers that recently bought video games and/or game systems, either online or in stores, reported...
In-game ad network Massive inked a multi-year liaison with video game publisher Activision and subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment.
Massive will...
Shoppers spent $534 million online on Black Friday — only 1% more than on Black Friday last year,...
Mobile ad network Greystripe now offers clients the ability to push rich media ads — including Flash videos...
Google has launched Google Holiday Shopping, which aggregates top product searches for certain categories.
"To find the season's most...
Men and women in Great Britain rank first among industrialized western nations on the international "Promiscuity Index," a...
News Corp's MySpace is giving users the ability to view streaming, ad-supported video clips on mobile devices, Reuters...
Over one in 10 (11%) young adults aged 18-34 watches TV online at least once a week. They...
The relatives of a 34-year-old Wal-Mart employee, killed during a Black Friday stampede at a store in Long...
Consumers will continue to shift gift buying online this holiday season, citing convenience, time constraints and price among...
A Specific Media study finds the presence of display advertising significantly affects click-through and search style across both...
When entering a query into Yahoo's search box, users are presented with text suggestions to narrow down what...
Despite gloom-and-doom reports for traditional print and broadcast media, C-Suite execs in the US — the highest echelon...
Ad Networks and Analytics:
Online contextual display ad firm LucidMedia secured $8.8 million in its third funding round, including...
Online classifieds ad vendor Oodle is taking the reins on Facebooks's "Marketplace" application, according to Oodle CEO Craig...
Up to 500 jobs, or 3% of the work force, are expected to be cut at NBCU, parent...
College students are four times more likely to blog than other online adults.
And the popularity of blogging among...
Those scared off by the "jumble of coding mixed with plain English paragraphs" in Wikipedia's entry edit forms...
Boxee, a set-top box software purveyor, has updated its feature set.
The site enables users to view select TV...
Though 40% of parents who exchange text messages with their teen- and young-adult children say they have been...
US-based advertisers are expected to spend only $23.6 billion online this year, according to revised figures from eMarketer,...
One week after changing the default format of video-viewing to widescreen (the better for HD material), YouTube now...
Hoping to "[redefine] education in the digital age," the Jacob Burns Film Center has opened the Media Arts...
The Huffington Post, one of the fastest-growing independent political sites this year, is launching a World Affairs section.
The...
