Some surprising data: Blackberry users are big MySpace fans: 400,000 downloaded the MySpace app last week.

WebVisible, which provides tools to manage ad campaigns for local businesses, has acquired search marketer Adapt Technologies.

Media Swiss Group, operator of a number of classified platforms and since December 2007 80%-owned by Switzerland’s biggest media group Ringier, is about to expand into Serbia.

More than one-third of top brand marketers send E-mails to consumers, even after they confirm requests to unsubscribe from an E-mail marketing list, according to a study by Return Path.

Stock analyst Tom Corbett wrote, “After lowering our sales and profitability forecast, we’ve reduced our fair value estimate on McClatchy’s shares to $0 from $2 each.

Twitter too chaotic for you? Try Twingr, kind of a “Ning for micro-blogging.”

Marketing execs: Yahoo’s not so bad after all.

The Wall Street Journal, one of the last remaining online newspapers that still puts some content behind a paid subscription wall, may be adding even more premium services.

Gannett said today it paid an undisclosed sum to acquire Ripple6, which provides social-media technology and related analytics.

YouTube members can now buy keywords to place paid links on YouTube videos or channel pages.

Facebook is the social media site of choice for online retailer in the U.S., according to an August 2008 study. But its share of online display ad views is much lower.

After three months of operation in the U.K., mobile-classifieds company Mobiya.co.uk has aggregated 10,000 classified ads—a humble number compared with other classifieds sites in the U.K., but the Mobiya team thinks mobile classifieds has got a lot of potential in the U.K. and in Europe.

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The Motley Fool’s Rick Aristotle Muniz tells why Yahoo is a good investment, but not without a tongue-lashing.

Mobile broadband software provider MediaG3 Inc. has launched China Green Pages, a mobile social network with e-commerce capabilities.

Cars.com and CareerBuilder will both be running ad spots in February’s Super Bowl—the most expensive airtime on commercial TV.

Aggregators for property listings have not been especially warmly welcomed across Europe, where reactions have ranged from ignoring the newcomers, to hauling them into court. Meanwhile consumers are beginning to use these search engines as a more convenient resource than the traditional “walled garden” real estate sites.

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Craigslist said it has begun cracking down on illegal sex-for-hire activity by requiring massage parlors, strippers and escort services to pay $5 per listing, payable by credit card. Craigslist said it would donate all proceeds from such advertising to charity.