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Brands Love Content—When They Make It The wall between publisher and product continues to erode

     Thanks to the ease of self-publishing online, marketing has looked increasingly like publishing with each year, and it’s only going to continue moving in that direction. In a panel…

June 9, 2011, 2:42 PM EDT

Startup Color Founder Plots Data Atom Bomb Heavily funded app developer tries to recover from early glitches

Startup Color Labs has techies up in arms. They’re jealous of the money it’s raised, anxious to see improvements to its still-in-development app (early reviews complained about repeated crashes), and…

June 7, 2011, 1:51 PM EDT

Second Screen Apps Explode Social media tries to get viewers to quit surfing and engage with TV

Thanks to a recent spate of TV-focused “second screen” apps, even the sedentary act of sitting around and staring at the tube can feel social and dynamic. Apps like GetGlue, Miso,…

June 7, 2011, 6:26 AM EDT

Twitter Plugging Away at Self-Serve Ad Platform McDonald's and Pixar score most-shared tweets

  Twitter’s monetization officer has an unenviable task. The micro-blogging company, valued anywhere from $7.7 billion to $10 billion, needs to, at some point, back into some revenue. To do so,…

June 6, 2011, 6:32 PM EDT

Twitter's iOS Deal Open to All Apps Integration not exclusive to Apple

Apple’s iOS 5 software for iPhone, iPad, and iPod will use Twitter integration, the company announced an hour ago at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. On the other…

June 6, 2011, 5:48 PM EDT

Social Media Experts Still Fighting for Credibility Meanwhile, Realtime conference plagued by tech snafus

     For the media-savvy, social media is old hat; Facebook is seven years old and Twitter just turned five. But as a viable segment of a digital advertising strategy,…

June 6, 2011, 12:53 PM EDT

Laura Desmond Wants Her Industry to Deep-Six Its Market Mix Starcom MediaVest Group CEO crusades against an antiquated idea

     Market mix modeling, the industry standard for gauging ad performance, is on its death bed. Laura Desmond wants to be the one to pull the plug.      Fortunately…

June 6, 2011, 9:24 AM EDT

Get Ready for Groupon's IPO Feeding Frenzy Financials show explosive revenue growth curbed by losses

Get ready for a public market circus. Groupon, the fastest growing company in history, filed its S-1 Thursday, and if the feeding frenzy that was the LinkedIn IPO is any precedent, it's…

June 2, 2011, 4:26 PM EDT

GetGlue Snags First Sponsor Social TV app is the Foursquare of entertainment

You turn on the TV and whip out your smartphone. Using the GetGlue app, you "check in" to whatever show you're watching, sharing the news with your friends on Facebook…

June 1, 2011, 7:36 AM EDT

Myspace Auction Limps Along Bidders jockey for position armed with updated financial info

News Corp. is rushing to wrap up the auction for Myspace before its fiscal year ends on June 30. Final round bids were actually due in late April, but in order…

June 1, 2011, 7:20 AM EDT

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