Digital Marketing Blog
Google has won a deal to replace Yahoo! as the exclusive advertising platform for original social network Friendster.
Confirming the tie-up this afternoon, Reuters said financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, though earlier reports indicated the partnership would last two years. Google will also supply search functionality to the site later this year.
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by Robert Andrews
07 March 2007 15:57pm
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The UK government could turn to mobile marketing technologies in an effort to get on top of immigration control.
Among measures proposed by the Home Office, visitors to the country would receive a text message reminding them when their visa is due to expire.
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by Robert Andrews
07 March 2007 15:53pm
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Royalty rates for music played via internet radio services could be set to triple, if the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gets its way.
The US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has endorsed a plan by the RIAA to retroactively raise the fees Internet radio broadcasters must pay to stream music.
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by Graham Charlton
07 March 2007 15:00pm
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TripAdvisor is proof that Web 2.0 isn't particularly new - the seven-year old travel website is based around user-generated content and has a thriving community.
We sat down with Marc Charron, TripAdvisor's European managing director, to discuss the company's past, present and future.
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by Richard Maven
07 March 2007 13:01pm
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Eons, which bills itself as a social network for the over-50s, has raised $22m (£11.4m) in its second round of funding.
The Boston-based firm has raised the cash from an investor group led by Charles River Ventures. Also involved were new investors Intel Capital and Humana, along General Catalyst Partners and Sequoia Capital, which had invested previously.
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by Graham Charlton
07 March 2007 10:21am
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Last week at the
Retail Week Conference
, I was so pleased I wasn’t in the corrugated roofing business, because no-one was talking about it. Everyone, on the other hand, was talking about multi-channel retailing - and it was great.
From the opening remarks to the close, a gruelling 33 hours later, e-commerce, its impact on retailers and on the high street was the main talk of the auditorium, the breakout sessions and the coffee queue.
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by Guest Author
07 March 2007 10:18am
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Dharmesh Shah at Small Business Hub has pulled together some handy tips on how to search Google like a pro.
Rather than simply typing in a couple of keywords and refining them to find what you're looking for, he points to a number of ways to search Google more accurately.
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by Graham Charlton
07 March 2007 09:37am
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Mpire, a shopping comparison site which searches for best deals from Amazon, eBay, Yahoo and other sites, has launched an 'experimental' visual shopping site.
Shopwave is the first project from Mpire Labs, which Mpire calls its 'little work area for experimenting with new ideas' , and is a Flash based application for browsing through goods.
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by Graham Charlton
06 March 2007 17:36pm
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Open Business Club AG, which operates German business social network
Xing
, has announced its preliminary results for 2006.
Back in December, Xing became the first web 2.0 company to go public, and its results for the past year show some pretty impressive growth.
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by Graham Charlton
06 March 2007 17:32pm
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Microsoft is expected to publicly criticise rival Google's "cavalier" approach to copyright in a speech to the publishing industry today.
According to an advance copy of an address due to be delivered by associate general counsel Thomas Rubin to the American Association of Publishers, and obtained by the Financial Times, Rubin will say: "Companies that create no content of their own, and make money solely on the backs of other people's content, are raking in billions through advertising revenue and IPOs.
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by Robert Andrews
06 March 2007 11:00am
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