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More fallout from the media backlash surrounding the performance-based ads that social gaming companies like Zynga have been using to monetize their games. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said that the company will be removing “all CPA [cost-per-action] offers” from its games until furt (Read More)
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When we heard of the latest product launch from France’s vertical publisher and social network business Glam One—owner of the “Glam” trademark in France—we wondered whether it would be a problem for US ad network Glam Media, which is planning to launch in France next year.Glam (Read More)
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[In progress] In-game and social media ad firm Offerpal Media has a new CEO: former Mochi Media Chairman and CEO George Garrick. Garrick is replacing Anu Shukla, who founded the company in 2007. In a statement, Shukla said the decision to bring in Garrick came after “many mont (Read More)
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More news about Time, Inc.‘s layoffs trickling out ... According to reports from Gawker and urban journalist blog Journalisticks.com, the company cut 18 staff from Essence magazine, including four editors and “nearly the entire” web team. This comes after a social media-centri (Read More)
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Updated: paidContent has confirmed that Time Inc.‘s cuts have hit Essence magazine and Essence.com. The company confirmed that the web team was affected, but would not give a headcount for the layoffs; our sources say that the number was lower than Gawker and Journalisticks.co (Read More)
KillerStartups.com - all:
DifferenceBetween is a knowledge hub on the Internet. Here, people from all over the world can find the difference between two related things, and a lot of ground is covered. By way of example, you can inform yourself about the difference between twitter and blogging in the section named “Internet”, and you can also learn a (Read More)
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Best Buy and Sonic Solutions, parent company of digital download service CinemaNow, have released more details about the on-demand content partnership they announced this summer. One of the more interesting tidbits is that Best Buy has acquired warrants that will allow it to b (Read More)
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Updated below: Best Buy and Sonic Solutions, parent company of digital download service CinemaNow, have released more details about the on-demand content partnership they announced this summer. One of the more interesting tidbits is that Best Buy has acquired warrants that wil (Read More)
SEO Book:
I have been meaning to interview Shoemoney for a while now, and after the most recent Elite Retreat we decided to do just that.I read a recent newsletter you put out about hitting rock bottom and remembering that as a key piece of 1.) what helped you grow 2.) what helped you sustain that growth. How many successful internet (Read More)
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» Imagining life after all media companies have put up a paywall. [AdAge]» The fall TV season has given a lift to viewership of online videos. [MinOnline]» Adeo Ressi, founder of capital rating service TheFunded, on the bursting of the venture capital bubble. [TechFlash]» (Read More)
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has joined Greylock Partners as an investing partner, and the VC firm—which currently backs Pandora and Israeli ad content-creator The Box, among others—has raised $575 million more for new investments. Greylock partner David Sze told VentureBeat that the firm had no trouble raising the new mon (Read More)
KillerStartups.com - all:
If you are keen on technology (and you probably are if you are reading this), visiting this new online resource is more or less a must. We can define TechnoBuffalo as a location where people like you can have their original content featured, and network with other like them right on the spot. This is possible because people (Read More)
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In a rather complex transaction with multiple companies involved, a new healthcare site focused on Q&As called Sharecare has been launched, and the entity has acquired health social network Dailystrength from HSW International, one of the founders of Sharecare. Other founders involved with Sharecare: Discovery Communication (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label "This week in search" and subscribe to the series. - Ed.The week leading up to Halloween has brought a flood of new treats for you.Music SearchOn Wednesday, we rolled out our new music search feature, fully integr (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that infor (Read More)