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Tim Peterson
Yahoo Shuttering Livestand iPad App Mobile app not part of mobile-first product strategy

With bikini season approaching, Yahoo’s all about trimming the fat. Last month the company announced that it would lay off 2,000 employees as part of then-CEO Scott Thompson’s plan to…

May 25 2012

Fast Chat: Rich Riley Yahoo's Americas head talks post-Thompson strategy

Rich Riley recently stepped up to the post of Yahoo’s evp of Americas amid a larger company reorganization that placed the region’s media and advertising business under one umbrella. A…

May 24 2012

Facebook IPO Word-of-Mouth Win for Twitter Sentiment mostly positive for Zuck and company

You may have heard that Facebook had its IPO last week. Of course you did—because Facebook notched 329,565 mentions online last Friday when the company went public, according to an…

May 24 2012

Be Careful What You Tweet, Pin or Check Into—Someone's Watching LocalResponse testing social retargeting tool

In April you may have tweeted how much you hate doing taxes. Sometime later you may have been browsing the Web and noticed ads for TurboTax popping up. That probably…

May 24 2012

Yahoo Unveils New Search Browser Syncs across desktop, iPad, iPhone

Despite outsourcing its search results to Bing, Yahoo maintains that it is still very much in the search game technology-wise. To prove as much, over the last six months the…

May 23 2012

CORRECTION: Google Continuing Rollout of Search Retargeting Options More advertisers targeting users who've recently clicked on search ads

Correction: On Tuesday, Adweek posted an article which reported that Google is testing a new search retargeting feature. The story alleged that Google had begun allowing advertisers to run display ads…

May 22 2012

Zynga, American Express Farm Game Cash—With Real Dollars Rewards program to eventually include offline discounts

A new plant has cropped up in FarmVille. Starting Tuesday, players of Zynga’s FarmVille game can sign up for an account with American Express’s PayPal-rival Serve (or connect with their…

May 22 2012

Can Video Get Some Instagram-Like Love? The next wave of social video apps

A startup’s best friend can be its elevator pitch. Here’s one: We’re like Instagram but for video. That best describes the recent eruption of social video apps that let users…

May 22 2012

CEOs Get(ting) Social, Per IBM Study Data divides top execs from the rest

The hierarchy of customer interaction methods starts with face-to-face, followed by websites, channel partners, call centers, traditional media, advisory groups and finally, social media. That won’t be the case in…

May 22 2012

How Facebook's Open Graph Impacted 'USA Today’s Super Bowl Ad Meter Led to 200,000 more videos viewed

This year marked the first time USA Today digitized its 23-year-old Super Bowl Ad Meter by rolling it out to Facebook in app form. You know lots of love weigh…

May 21 2012

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