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

Two execs from the world of interactive media are on the lineup for President-elect Barack Obama’s Agency Review Teams.

Canadian publisher and broadcaster Canwest Global has taken a whopping $1.01-billion write down on its Canadian television operations, citing dire expectations for advertising revenues to come. The loss reversed a year-earlier profit of $197 million.

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

Canwest Global Communications Corp. said it would trim about 560 jobs, or about 5 percent of its workforce, over the next few months in an effort to trim operating costs by about $61 million CAD ($49 million U.S.).

Corporate AMEX cards and pre-paid taxi “chits” are on the way out at Yahoo Canada.

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.

Yahoo has launched its voice-enabled mobile search service for UK customers.

The Journal Register Co. plans to close up to 13 Connecticut newspapers if it can’t find a buyer for them.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang says that while performance-based advertising remains a high-growth area, it’s unknown what long-term effects the current economic downturn will have on that segment of the advertising industry.

Vivian Schiller, the head of NYTimes.com’s digital efforts, has left the company to join NPR as its new CEO.

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

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

Classifieds listings aggregators continue to solidify their role in the ecosphere of the commercial Internet. Read our in-depth report.

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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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Not everyone sees aggregation as a win-win. In addition to the conflicts in Europe, some Realtors in the U.S. continue to debate the wisdom of syndicating listings outside the control of the agent or brokerage.

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Schibsted reported a decline in Q3 profit, from NOK 257 million to NOK 213 million in 2008. 

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