Digital Marketing News for August 17 2012 - Deets on Apple Television

MAJOR COMPANIES

FB shares fell to record low as early investors became free to sell

Zuckerberg addresses falling stock price in bid to improve employee morale

Wall Street Analyst: Apple Television is in full production

Details about how Apple plans to improve TV

Y! searching for a COO

Lenovo: WIN tablets wil be up to $300 less than iPads

Twitter API changes make it tougher for traditional client apps

START UPS

Trulia files for IPO

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Target ecomm business in review

Vitro wins Redbox Instant account

RESEARCH

eM: Growth in social marketing will level off in 2013

Digital Marketing News for August 17, 2012 - FB stock takes a drubbing

MAJOR COMPANIES

Below $20! Worst day ever for FB stock

Apple laying off store employees

Apple talking to Cable Cos about launching a set top box

START UPS

Read about Ridejoy a ridesharing service on iOS

GetGlue launches new socal TV app for iPad

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

CK launches bra with digital only

Read about a cool integrated Lunchables promo combining digital and experiential

RESEARCH

M-Payments forecast: $1.7Bil by 2017

SCUTTLE

New Diet Coke can design

Digital Marketing News for August 15, 2012

MAJOR COMPANIES

FB testing new ad product that will put more sponsor messages in your news feed, even from brands you don't follow

Germans reopen FB privacy inquiry

START UPS

Read about Medium, a new medium length blogging platform

New Mobile App from Pinterest

JiWire rolls out "Location Graph"

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Wal-Mart, Target, 7-Eleven Japan teaming up on mobile payments

Cool Pepsi/NFL partnership based around home team anthems

Rob Norman to CDO at GroupM

Mark Thompson to CEO New York Times

RESEARCH

Smartphone AOV highest, iPhone leads

Digital Marketing News for August 14, 2012 - GOOG acquires Frommers

MAJOR COMPANIES

The scoop on FB's new "Page Post Targeting" options

Google acquires Frommers

START UPS

Visible Measures gets $21.5Mil

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Shiv Singh on four digital trends to worry media companies

Dentsu announces digital holding unit DNA

CVS signs on with Shopkick

Clever Ben and Jerry "Spooning app" finds partners for eaters

RESEARCH

Analysis: Social drove Olympics TV viewership

SCUTTLE

Digital Marketing News for August 13, 2012

MAJOR COMPANIES

Google slashing 20% of Motorola employees

FTC reaches privacy settlement with Facebook

START UPS

GoodReads hits 10 Mil user for its social reading platform

Employee competency assessment startup Mettl raises $4Mil

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Miller enlists consumer feedback as it defines new Hispanic effort

Deal size trumped quantity this quarter in start up M&A

Newspapers now at center of JCPenney comeback

Haul vids having big impact on BTS sales

RESEARCH

Retail e-commerce up 15% YOY in Q2