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Friday, August 31, 2012

Digital Marketing News for August 31, 2012

MAJOR COMPANIES

FB stock price drops to new low

Score one for Samsung – Wins Japan patent lawsuit with Apple

Here are Nokia's next gen WIN 8 phones

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Founder of Verbling reminds to focus on user first

RESEARCH
eMarketer cuts estimate for FB revenues

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Digital Marketing News for August 30, 2012

MAJOR COMPANIES

Apple's phone share in China halved

FB Sponsored Search ads apparently work gangbusters

Surprise! Samsung, NOT Nokia launched the first WIN 8 phones

Read about the Zappos partnership with Pinterest

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Shopbop gets a makeover

Shuffler.fm the Flipboard for music

AGENCIES AND BRANDS                        

Adweek's guide to election and campaign apps

RESEARCH

Survey assesses risks to brands of different social media outlets

SCUTTLE

Are giant ads the future of FB?

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Digital Marketing News for August 29, 2012 - Google Debuts G+ for Business

MAJOR COMPANIES

Take a tour of Sony's new Android tablet

Google debuts G+ for Business

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Pinterest continues strong growth

The amazing rise of Twitch.tv

Check out the I Done This app

MINT hits 10 Mil users

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

The social debacle that is BIC for Her

Fewer than half of online ads meet viewability standard

RESEARCH

New commerce Lumascape from Luma Partners

SCUTTLE

Mayer hires new CMO for Y! while old CMO on vacay

 

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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Digital Marketing News for August 28, 2012

MAJOR COMPANIES

Is win over Samsung the first shot in an all out Apple war against Android?

More on Apple Store layoffs

In a first, a Google ad (for Nexus 7) on its homepage

What's hurting Zynga – declines in user base

FB board member cashouts a corporate governance red flag

Kathy Savitt to be CMO of Y!

START UPS

Read about SumAll Metrics and the quest to quantify the value of a like

NoWait restaurant waitlisting services gets $2Mil

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

BK adding new shops to creative roster

Anomaly wins Bud Light Canada

RESEARCH

Mag ad use of mobile codes is exploding

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Monday, August 27, 2012

Digital Marketing News for August 27, 2012 - Samsung must pay $1B to Apple

MAJOR COMPANIES

Court fines Samsung $1B for copying iPhone

Samsung's internal memo on the issue

NYT was losing $ on About.com

AOL issuing $5.15 special dividend to shareholders, much of the proceeds of their patent sale

START UPS

Late Labs – where developers trade code for equity

Nasty Gal fashion site gets $40Mil Series B

UPS invests $2Mil in same day delivery start up Shutl

IBM buys Kenexa for $1.3B

AGENCIES AND BRANDS

SV returning to its hardware roots

RESEARCH

What smartphone users are doing with their phones

SCUTTLE

The story of review fraud online
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