bruce oren | December 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
In a wide-ranging, 11-minute interview with Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, Sam Zell, chairman and CEO of Tribune Co., talks about the company's...
AIM Group | December 10, 2008 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
In a move which surprised friend and foe, the German publishing group Axel Springer Verlag today acquired 33.3 percent of the shares of Oslo-based StepStone ASA,...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Marketplaces
The New York Times is now earning a small chunk of change from the Amazon Kindle. The device, which has caught on more than its initial pundits believed, supports...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Marketplaces
How niche can a social network go? Sneakerplay is an online community targeted at people who love their sneakers so much they need a place to talk about them and...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Real Estate
Trulia is now targeting advertisements to users based on their location through a new deal with 1020 Placecast. The aim is to improve response rates to...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Swedish directory media group Eniro AB has entered into an agreement for a long-term, strategic partnership with Mktmedia, a development company for 33 Swedish...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Consumers love using social networking sites more than ever, but advertising spending has not kept pace. EMarketer has revised its projections for U.S. social...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Automotive
Got a flyhoopty? Even know what a flyhoopty is? We didn’t until we ran across a site which explains that flyhoopty is slang for “cool used...
Brian Blum | December 10, 2008 | Automotive
Cobalt’s Dealix division announced that the company’s Phone Leads 2.0 product has signed up its 1000th dealer. Phone Leads 2.0 is a pay-per-call...
Peter M. Zollman | December 10, 2008 | Real Estate
Bucking the tight-money trend, San Francisco-based real-estate search engine Roost Inc. secured $8 million in new funding on top of the $5.5 million previous...
joe michaud | December 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Important data from TubeMogul, an online video analytics and distribution company. According to a study conducted by the company, over 10 percent of viewers leave...
admin3 | December 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
The advertising slowdown has everyone looking at ways to save money or make their spending more effective. Behavioral targeting is coming onto more people's radar...
Linda Karlsson | December 09, 2008 | Recruitment
CareerBuilder's Swedish jobs site, Jobbguiden.se, has assumed the Careerbuilder name. Johan Hjelte, former director and one of the founders of Jobbguiden.se, will...
Brian Blum | December 09, 2008 | Real Estate
In a case reminiscent of the trouble Craigslist almost got into, a federal district judge has ruled that the Web site Roommates.com can be held liable for...
Brian Blum | December 09, 2008 | Real Estate
If you enjoy exploring a city from a street-by-street on-the-ground viewpoint, you can now do it in New Zealand. .. This content is available free to Classified...
Brian Blum | December 09, 2008 | Real Estate
RealEstate.com has acquired Tampa, Fl.-based New Homes Realty, an online real estate company operating in 11 metro areas across the U.S. with a network of 200...
Brian Blum | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
In a sign of the increasing importance of the Web, the Pulitzer Prize Board says that online-only newspapers will now be eligible for the Prize. Here are the...
Brian Blum | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here’s something from MySpace that we think will be very useful. The company is launching the MySpace Toolbar that will bring a stream of MySpace data,...
AIM Group | December 09, 2008 | Recruitment
CareerBuilder reportedly laid off possibly as many as 300 workers in its downtown Chicago headquarters, including sales personnel who worked on small-business...
AIM Group | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
The McClatchy Company will "streamline operations" further in 2009, investors were told at the annual UBS Globe Media & Communications Conference in New York....
joe michaud | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
Following its Chapter 11 filing, the Tribune Co. has sent out a letter to its advertisers to reassure them that it's still "business as usual" and that the company...
bruce oren | December 09, 2008 | Automotive
Caroline Little, who ran WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive during its great period of...
Peter M. Zollman | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
That banjo music you hear is from separate NPR interviews of New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller and Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thompson....
Peter M. Zollman | December 09, 2008 | Uncategorized
Google has introduced extensive magazine archives and current magazines within its online Google Book Search. You can filter for magazines in Google's Advanced...
AIM Group | December 08, 2008 | Recruitment
In recent months the ongoing niche creation by Germany's big job sites took on an interesting new character. Monster.de, Jobware.de and Stepstone.de all announced...
Brian Blum | December 08, 2008 | Marketplaces
Mobile users can now watch videos from MySpace via a partnership with RipCode. The content will be available at MySpace’s mobile site, m.myspace.com. MySpace...
Brian Blum | December 08, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate
Reply.com used to be a high-flying classified advertising portal, placing both automotive and home listings under one roof. The San Ramon-based company has now...
Brian Blum | December 08, 2008 | Uncategorized
Teen girl social media Web site Flip.com is shutting down on Dec. 16. The Conde Nast site, launched in 2006, informed users that any data they have can be printed...
Brian Blum | December 08, 2008 | Uncategorized
Another senior exec is leaving Yahoo. This time it’s Peter Daboll who had the intriguing title of chief of insights. He’ll be heading up social media...
Brian Blum | December 08, 2008 | Uncategorized
Maps on mobile phones are becoming an essential part of next generation cellular devices. They’re an important way for everyone from local pizza joints to...
