 | Thursday, February 25, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
NBC Universal’s Telemundo Television Station Group, a producer of Hispanic content in the U.S., has launched a group of iPhone applications for local Spanish-language TV stations.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/KfPWZ20BH8M" height="1" width="1"/
Read more | Thursday, February 25, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
T-Mobile, Sprint, ATT, Google and Verizon Wireless have responded to the FCC Jan. 26 letters regarding early termination fees.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/qbMyuXXCWko" height="1" width="1"/
Read more | Thursday, February 25, 2010
Source: Mobile Marketer | Category: Mobile
Sonic, American Eagle Outfitters and REI have all launched location-based mobile marketing initiatives to drive consumers into physical stores.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/homepage-news/~4/r0fKRidg98Y" height="1" width="1"/
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
The new Nintendo DSi XL arrives in the U.S. on March 28. But Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president at Nintendo of America, showed me the product up close today during our interview in San Francisco.
She said that innovations such as a bigger screen — which can be viewed from the side by others who are watching you play — will keep Nintendo fans happy. To date, most innovations have been about making devices smaller. But this latest move from Nintendo is similar to Apple’s announcement of the large-screened iPad. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
The announcement of Nintendo’s DSi XL handheld got a lot of attention today. But the games that the Japanese company talked about today are equally as important for its plan to continue to dominate the video game market in the first half of 2010. Here’s some hands-on impressions of the up-close-and-personal demonstrations I saw today for the upcoming games.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii. It’s been a long wait since Super Mario Galaxy debuted on the Wii in the fall of 2007. This game is well worth the wait and is looking very polished. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
The announcement of Nintendo’s DSi XL handheld got a lot of attention today. But the games that the Japanese company talked about are equally as important to its plan to continue its domination of the video game market in the first half of 2010. Here’s some hands-on impressions of the up-close-and-personal demonstrations I saw today of the upcoming games.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii
It’s been a long wait since Super Mario Galaxy debuted on the Wii in the fall of 2007. This game is well worth the wait and is looking very polished. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
Polyvore, a fast-growing fashion community site, is in the interesting position of pushing forward both search and user-generated content creation at the same time. On the occasion of her hiring, we interviewed new CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy about some fascinating stats and observations about the company.
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
By now, most radio stations have started broadcasting online, meaning you can listen from anywhere you’ve got an Internet connection. For whatever reason, though, that fantastic feature hasn’t really found its way to where we normally listen to the radio — in the car or in our living room.
But now Spark Radio, a brand new $6 app in the iPhone App Store, is bringing the advantages of radio and the Internet together to make one killer music app.
It’s essentially a collection of Internet radio stations from all over the world – more than 10,000 for now; and the company promises to have 30,000 by April — all available on your iPhone. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: eMarketer | Category: Metrics
Social media, blogs and search engine optimization more cost-effective for lead gen
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Source: eMarketer | Category: Metrics
Many marketers are dissatisfied with measurement
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Enerkem, the Canadian bio fuels company, believes it can sell carbon-neutral fuels for cheap and do so while removing trash from landfills. The company has taken $51 million in funding including investment from Waste Management of Houston. Garbage and bio fuels go together like peas and carrots, with a waste-to-fuels facility in Michigan set to help Enerkem spend its new money.
On the other hand, Advanced biofuels have been getting a bad name from ActionAid . ActionAid claims that bio fuels contribute to global starvation and that they don’t help climate change, either. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
The topic that provoked some of the most argument at the Beet.TV’s online video roundtable in San Francisco today was the format of online advertising. Initially, everyone focused on the nitty grity of delivering the “pre-roll” video ads that run before the content that you actually want to watch. Then Jim Louderback of Internet TV network Revision3 declared that approach is “cowpathing the old model” — it’s just trying to import TV ads into a new medium where they don’t make sense. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
General Motors is losing one of the key players on the team developing the Chevrolet Volt — the hotly-anticipated plug-in vehicle that is supposed to forever change the green vehicle market. And where is Denise Gray, director of global battery systems, going? Where else? A battery startup in California.
So far, the company that stole her away hasn’t been identified. Gray only says that she is stepping into a senior management post at a California startup that is still in stealth mode. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
General Motors is losing one of the key players on the team developing the Chevrolet Volt — the hotly-anticipated plug-in vehicle that is supposed to forever change the green vehicle market. And where is Denise Gray, director of global battery systems, going? Where else? A battery startup in California.
So far, the company that stole her away hasn’t been identified. Gray only says that she is stepping into a senior management post at a California startup that is still in stealth mode. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: GigaOM | Category: Media
In a ruling that could have broad implications for video hosting sites that operate in Italy, three Google executives were found guilty of violating privacy laws yesterday for a video that was uploaded to Google Video by one of its users. Although Google has already said [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Mashery, a startup that helps software companies market, distribute and keep track of their application programming interfaces (APIs), has just raised $5.5 million in a third round of venture funding, according to a filing with the SEC.
With more web-based startups releasing APIs to extend their capabilities and engage users, this type of service seems to be in higher demand than ever — a fact that attracted attention and cash from Cisco Systems. The Silicon Valley giant led the financing round for Mashery, which is also backed by First Round Capital, 406 Ventures and Formative Ventures. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Facebook status updates from Pages will start showing up in Google’s real-time search results today.
It’s the first time the search giant has indexed content from the world’s largest social network for real-time results. The company incorporated tweets last December, and then MySpace status updates earlier this month.
The key thing to remember though is that Google has much more limited access to Facebook’s real-time data than its competitor, Bing. Microsoft has deeper ties to the social network, as an investor in Facebook and as a search provider for the site. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Online baby product retailer SproutBaby acquired blogging network EcoMom today in an all-equity transaction. The deal reflects a growing trend where editorial content and direct marketing are blended to drive sales in niche online communities.
SproutBaby sells “eco-conscious” infant products like organic baby food and skin care products that omit chemicals linked to cancer. EcoMom is a blogging network and online community of ecologically-conscious mothers.
“We realized we would have a much stronger offering together, than as separate companies,” said SproutBaby chief executive and founder Jody Sherman. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
Online baby product retailer SproutBaby acquired blogging network EcoMom today in an all-equity transaction. The deal reflects a growing trend where editorial content and direct marketing are blended to drive sales in niche online communities.
SproutBaby sells “eco-conscious” infant products like organic baby food and skin care products that omit chemicals linked to cancer. EcoMom is a blogging network and online community of ecologically-conscious mothers.
“We realized we would have a much stronger offering together, than as separate companies,” said SproutBaby chief executive and founder Jody Sherman. [...]
Read more | Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Source: Venture Beat | Category: Technology
In its ambition to be a player in the red hot category of social network games, Hi5 is expected to announce today that it has acquired a social gaming platform company and a new team of executives with years of experience in online games.
The San Francisco social networking company has acquired Big Six, an Austin, Texas-based social game developer that has its own battle-tested virtual currency platform. It has also hired Big Six co-founders Kevin Gliner, Monty Kerr and Chad Hansing to help run hi5. [...]
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