paidContent.org:
Well, it isn’t exactly the acquisition I was hoping for, but close, and probably for the better: BNO News, of the popular @BreakingNews Twitter feed and the BNO iPhone app, is launching its business syndication venture, called BNO News Wire, and MSNBC.com has signed on as the (Read More)
New York Times:
Twitter, the social internet firm that tracks trends through individuals' updates of events around them, may eventually go to the stock market for funding if necessary, co-founder Biz Stone said. (Read More)
Mashable!:
Verizon opened up total war against AT&T in October when it unleashed its “There’s a Map for That” ad campaign, slamming AT&T’s 3G coverage using the iPhone commercial catchphrase “there’s a map for that.”Since then, both sides have relentlessly attacked each other. First AT&T sued Verizon, Verizon fired back with holiday (Read More)
Mashable!:
A quick check of Twitter confirms it: Facebook is down. The world’s largest social network is having some type of uptime issue that is affecting at least a large swath of users. According to our tests (which involved clicking “refresh” many times), Facebook.com will sometimes load after multiple attempts, but there’s clear (Read More)
Mashable!:
YouTube and the web have provided a new and powerful medium for video and TV commercials. The great ones can go viral, resulting in millions upon millions of views. MSI’s Acrobuttocks commercial, Microsoft’s MEGAWOOSH and Windows 7 ads, and Evian’s Roller Babies immediately come to mind.Out of the thousands of commercials (Read More)
New York Times:
A 29-year-old Canadian woman who says she's too depressed to do her job claims that her employer's insurance company stopped paying her disability benefits because she posted some photographs of herself on Facebook in which she appeared to be happy.
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ReadWriteWeb:
At the White House today, President Obama talked robots, hung out with the guys from MythBusters, and launched a campaign designed to create smarter, techier American kids."Reaffirming and strengthening America's role as the world's engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation is essential to meeting the chal (Read More)
Mashable!:
For the last month and a half, AT&T and Verizon have been at war. Verizon launched ads tearing down AT&T’s 3G coverage, AT&T countered with a lawsuit and ads starring Luke Wilson. Hell, even Apple is getting involved in this messy affair.With the two largest mobile networks making headlines, we thought it would be appropr (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Online video ad rates keep coming down, but that could be a good thing. BrightRoll, a large video ad network, is reporting that cost-per-thousand (CPM) rates for pre-roll video ads across its network are down on average by 37 percent from a year ago, but total revenues across its network are up 84 percent. Cheaper ads are (Read More)
VentureBeat:
With all the information available today, wading through everything to find out what you really need to know is hard. But there are also a few options for weeding out the noise in your information stream. Feedtrace is a new one, and one with some promise.When you visit the Feedtrace site and sign up, you sign in with your (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Zynga said today it has crossed more than 100 million unique monthly users for its social games on Facebook.Thanks to the popularity of its casual Facebook games such as FarmVille, which has more than 65 million players, the San Francisco company has become the biggest developer on Facebook and the leading company in the em (Read More)
Mashable!:
Photoshop Mobile for the iPhone is one of of our favorite apps, and the Android version, which was released earlier this month, brings all the same non-destructive easy-editing tools to your Android powered device.When it was first released, however, it was only available in the US & Canadian Android Markets. Never fear non (Read More)
paidContent.org:
The Playboy Enterprises (NYSE: PLA) deal is about to close, paidContent has learned, and the buyer is Iconix Brand Group, the London-based owner of London Fog, Joe Boxer, Ecko Unltd and others. What isn’t clear is the structure of the deal, whether it is a full buyout—or if Pl (Read More)