Linda Karlsson | September 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Software maker Adobe Systems announced Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Omniture, an online business optimization company. The deal is valued at $1.8...
Mark Whittaker | September 16, 2009 | Real Estate
Campbell, Calif.-based Move, Inc. just announced the appointments of David Story as chief technology officer and Scott Boecker as chief product officer. Adobe and...
Sharon Hill | September 16, 2009 | Recruitment
Urban Interns, a recruitment site for part time work, launched its beta in New York City in February. Owners Lauren Porat, an IAC veteran, and attorney Cari...
Mark Whittaker | September 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Deborah Tomilson, four-year Belo veteran, has been named VP of business and interactive development for The Providence (RI) Journal and its Projo.com.Prior to...
Linda Karlsson | September 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
At the Goldman Sachs Communacopia XVIII Conference in New York on Tuesday, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch discussed possible moves toward monetizing access to...
Mark Whittaker | September 16, 2009 | Marketplaces
Recession-conscious MutantAuction.com has turned online auctioning on its head, with a reverse process that rewards the lowest bidder. Created by 24-year-old...
Mark Whittaker | September 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, just posted on the Facebook blog the news that the social giant has reached the 300-million-user mark, and that it...
Sharon Hill | September 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Craig Newmark isn't completely enamored of the person chosen to play him in the upcoming "Web 2.0" movie. Rather than James Gandolfini he'd choose Jason...
Mark Whittaker | September 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Google Blog just announced the acquisition by Google of ReCaptcha, an optical character recognition company. If you've ever tried to post, comment or subscribe to...
Sharon Hill | September 16, 2009 | Marketplaces
The winner of this year’s TechCrunch50 Best-in-Show Award is Redbeacon, a Web site aimed at matching consumers with small business service providers such as...
Sharon Hill | September 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch just announced his media group's intent to charge for mobile access to The Wall Street Journal news content in one or two months....
Mark Whittaker | September 17, 2009 | Automotive
Florida-based CarZoom, an automotive U.S. search engine, has signed exclusive partnerships with two Rochester NY television stations. WROC is a CBS affiliate owned...
Mark Whittaker | September 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mediaspectrum, Inc. and Tribune Company just announced a joint effort to enable fast and secure self-service advertising for publishers. Mediaspectrum's...
Sharon Hill | September 17, 2009 | Marketplaces
Google now delivers paid search ads on EBay – or at least most of them, according to RKG’s Mark Ballard, who has been studying the quiet transition....
AIM Group | September 18, 2009 | Automotive
Peter Schmid (38), CEO of Germany’s biggest automobile portal Mobile.de since 3 April 2006, has resigned to join Parship.de, one of Germany’s biggest...
AIM Group | September 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Wall Street Journal Online dropped its fee for access to premium content today (Friday, September 18). An ad on the site's homepage states "The Wall...
Peter M. Zollman | September 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Moody's Investor Service downgraded GateHouse Media's credit rating, saying the company's capital structure "unsustainable" in the face of $1.2 billion in...
AIM Group | September 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Sharon Hill While HotJobs initially brought newspapers to Yahoo's table, APT - Yahoo's integrated, cross-selling, behavioral-targeting ad platform - might very...
Peter M. Zollman | September 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Bruce Annan In any separation agreement, the issues are division of property, support and child custody... So it is with MSN This article is locked. Please...
Peter M. Zollman | September 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Sharon Hill With the continuing decline of advertising revenue, the debate among news publishers over whether and how to charge for content is increasingly...
AIM Group | September 18, 2009 | Marketplaces
The BIA Kelsey Group is teaming up with the Yellow Pages Association to present Directional Media Strategies 2009, Kelsey’s 30th Yellow Pages and...
Peter M. Zollman | September 18, 2009 | Recruitment
By Linda Karlsson We reported that Axel Springer Verlag secured a majority interest in Oslo-based StepStone, now holding 52.27 percent of the international...
Peter M. Zollman | September 18, 2009 | Recruitment
By Nirmalya Sen This might just be the value-add Indian jobs portal Naukri.com was aiming for. Applect Learning Systems, funded by Noida, Uttar Pradesh-based Info...
AIM Group | September 18, 2009 | Real Estate
By Sharon Hill While many newspaper publishers are reining in their costs, Dallas-based A.H. Belo is investing. Online real estate broker Sawbuck Realty recently...
Peter M. Zollman | September 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
More than half of ad impressions and 95% of clicks on online ad buys are fraudulent, according to a report by Radar Research. The company based its analysis on...
Sharon Hill | September 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Google today announced the new DoubleClick Ad Exchange, which it hopes will do for online display advertising what AdSense and AdWords have done for text...
Mark Whittaker | September 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Omniture, provider of online business optimization software, and ComScore, digital measurement and research company, just announced a strategic partner...
Sharon Hill | September 21, 2009 | Automotive
AutoTrader.com just introduced its New Model Showcase, a picture gallery of 2010 vehicles, complete with model overview, interior and exterior specifications and...
Mark Whittaker | September 21, 2009 | Real Estate
Trulia just announced its new Trulia Mayor program, to help strengthen and expand the Trulia Voices community including nearly 400,000 real estate professionals....
Sharon Hill | September 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
President Barack Obama said Friday he is concerned about the health of the newspaper industry and came close to supporting paid content. In an interview with...