Digital Marketing News for August 10, 2012

MAJOR COMPANIES

MSFT's Brendan Lynch's privacy posts sends shudders down Madison

Google agrees to record fine over privacy breach

Y! Olympics coverage draws 2Bil page views

AOL relaunches connected TV app

START UPS

MeeGenius raises $2.4Mil to bring children's books to the iPad

Read about Everyday.me, an Evernote for your life

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Opinion: Brands and Generation S

Target testing GeekSquad model

Intel and musicians team up for Ultrabook Experience

RESEARCH

Mobile driving interest in watching sports online

SCUTTLE

Can 3D printing really make guns now? Holy cr*p!

Digital Marketing News for August 9, 2012

MAJOR COMPANIES

Zynga's COO resigns

Pinterest opens for everyone

Topline of ways Mayer is trying to change Yahoo

Tough quarter for T-Mobile USA

START UPS

Ouya raises $8.6Mil on Kickstarter

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

IPG acquires ChaseDesign, ups shopper marketing presence

Great quarter for Sirius

RESEARCH

Twitter Audience Analysis

Digital Marketing News for August 8, 2012 -- Rough day of announcements for HP

MAJOR COMPANIES

Rough day of announcements for HP today

NYT selling About at a big loss

Zynga introing core games

FB now down 45% from IPO. Owie!

FB criticized in UK for launching real gambling games – that's real money on the line games

START UPS

Very interesting set of companies being unveiled today at DEMO Vantageous sounds REALLY cool

Boingo buys Cloud Nine

Pivotshare raises $1MM

Combine multiple WIFI connections into a super connection with Connectify

AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Nice thinkpiece about the need for CMO/CIO partnership

Square payments coming to every Starbucks in America

Seventeen Magazine goes M-activated for BTS

RESEARCH

Americans getting social on their phones

Digital Marketing News for August 7, 2012 - Bud Light Creative Assignment to Translation Advertising

MAJOR COMPANIES

Best Buy founder offers to buy back company

START UPS

Free Monee gets $34Mil

Affectiva gets $12 Mil

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

Digital sales growth not enough to help the struggling mag business

Bud Light Creative assignment goes to Translation Advertising

Inside P&G's digital heavy Olympics efforts

Why McGarry lost Bud Light?

More on the J&J review

RESEARCH          

Marketers favoring large agencies with global reach

Digital Marketing News for August 6, 2012 - EA suing Zynga for copying games

MAJOR COMPANIES

Apple rumored to be considering purchase of Pinterest rival The Fancy

The "secret" love affair between Apple and Twitter

EA sues Zynga for copying games

eBay testing same day delivery

Woz tells us why he doesn't like the cloud

START UPS

Shoe Dazzle hits 13Mil members!

Turner buying Bleacher Report for $200Mil

All about Google's acquisition Wildfire and what it does

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

NBC Olympic ratings massive

RESEARCH

Search undervalued – critical to brand campaigns
SCUTTLE

Theories behind Ewanick's GM departure abound