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Friday, August 17, 2012

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

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Thursday, August 16, 2012

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

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

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

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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

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Monday, August 13, 2012

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

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Friday, August 10, 2012

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!

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Thursday, August 9, 2012

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

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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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


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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

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

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Monday, August 6, 2012

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

 

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