Footbalistic.com is a site for all your football (read: soccer)- related searches. Think of it: with over 3.5 billion fans worldwide (according to FIFA), this truly is a market with great potential. Meet the Silicon Valley startup that is tapping...
Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: Limelight Networks, eXelate, Mullen, ShopLocal, RSG Media Systems and Mixpanel. Money Matters Acquisition Limelight Networks, the content delivery network, said it acquired cloud-based...
An overview of some of today's search, advertising and tech news. Google Adwords was granted victory by U.S. District court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee in Alexandria, Va, in the case on the alleged trademarks infringement brought against it by...
Reports have it that Google has bought social apps platform Slide for a price tag ranging from $182 million to $228 million, depending on the sources. What we do know for a fact is that the Mountain View-based company is dumping Google Wave while...
A poll by Harris Interactive for Buddy Media showed that brands are hampered by finding the right ROI metrics in their adoption of social media campaigns to reach locally, on a global scale. Highlights from the poll results are as follow....
An overview of some of today's search, ad, tech news Departures Yahoo is forging on in its management reshuffle process. Following the steps of Larry Cornett, it's now Srinija Srinivasan's turn to leave the company after 15 years of...
An overview of some of today's search, ad, tech news Brand New FindTheBest.com is a new 'decision engine' launched by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor to help internet users gauge comparable data online on a variety of topics and...
Research firm Nielsen has released a study on how Americans spent their online time in June. Here are the main findings worth making a note of. Online Time On Computers The Nielsen study finds that social media accounted for almost 25% of...
An overview of some of today's search, ad, tech news Search Adobe has filed for a patent that would enable search engines to crawl rich media format through an annotation-based system. "According to embodiments of the invention, a...
Google sites remained the most visited in the U.S. during the month of June but Yahoo is closing in on its rival, comScore's numbers show. Most Popular Among the top five most popular web properties in the U.S., Google sites remained #1...
Bits and bobs to keep up with search engine product updates: YouTube, Wolfram|Alpha, Bing Maps and more. YouTube has extended video upload limit on its site to 15 minutes from 10 minutes previously. Joshua Siegel, Product Manager, Upload and...
Bits and bobs to keep up with search agency news: Kenshoo & SapientNitro, ClickEquations, and more Kenshoo, the search engine marketing platform, said its Kenshoo Search arm will power the search engine marketing of interactive marketing...
Facebook Questions beta is the social site's most recent feature launch. It allows users to crowdsource their own questions by submitting them to all of Facebook's 500 million users as well as to all their friends. This seemingly 'innocent'...
An overview of some of today's ad/tech news. Search & Social Ask.com is both going back to its original Q&A format as well as moving forth into social search by launching what it calls the beta version of "new Ask.com" site,...
The rumor is growing fast. Now the New York Post has it that Google could launch its search-related music store as early as this holiday season, i.e. November-December. "Accelerated" Talks The newspaper reports that Android VP at Google,...
The advertising industry is launching its own PR campaign by way of setting up an Institute for Advertising Ethics. The sector has always had a negative image and the likes of the "Mad Men" series are certainly surfing that tide to… sell....
When AOL is in the news, it means business… CEO Tim Armstrong said advertising would be AOL's primary source of revenues in his turnaround plan for the company. As such, AOL already demonstrated its willingness to leave non-viable...
AOL is currently gauging the offers of several companies to power its search as its $700 million-a-year deal with Google is set to expire in December. Whether it renews its agreement with Google or switches to another search company, AOL is...
NBC Universal (NBCU), the media and entertainment company, has launched its own advertising platform UAP to serve its own network of owned and operated sites, Mediaweek reported, quoting company executives. Universal Audience Platform To...
Foursquare, the location-based social media site, is aware of the value of its data for searches and has started talking to "a lot of different potential partners," including industry majors such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in order to clinch...
