MAJOR COMPANIES
Market punishes FB for OK revenue – Stock down 16%
Apple buys AuthenTec for $356 Million
Google Fiber up and running in Kansas City – watch out Cable Guy!
START UPS
Read about Wonderville, an early childhood ed start up
AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Financial Times digital subs now > paper
ATT showcases Olympic athlete's digital lives
Sheila Hartnett to CEO OgilvyAction
Tablets and Smartphones driving CE sales growth
RESEARCH
MAJOR COMPANIES
Bad quarter for Nielsen – fingers pointed at low adoption of online campaign ratings
Good thought piece: be PROACTIVE and integrated with Twitter
Weak earnings for Apple, though these things are all relative
Better than expected quarter for AOL, though, again, these things are relative
Interesting POV on Apple and Profitability
START UPS
Foursquare debuts paid promoted updates
Huge raise for Square in the works
AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Campbell's aims squarely at Millennials
Kohl's searching for strategic agency
Pepsi aims marketing push at Hispanics
RESEARCH
Research shows power of integrating banners with Search
SCUTTLE
Jim's Soap Box: I am so over people attacking Marissa Mayer's Mommy credentials
MAJOR COMPANIES
Twitter the "Official Narrator" of the Olympics
Samsung Galaxy 3 selling like hotcakes!
START UPS
Asana project management start up raises $28M at $280M valuation
Scott Thompson lands at ShopRunner
Vibrant expanding offerings to full page brand and mobile ads
Moasis takes mobile ads hyperlocal
AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Beer Institute out to revive BRAND BEER
Check out Adweek's picks for Media Plan of the Year
RESEARCH
Consumers skeptical of FB targeted ads
SCUTTLE
Mayer an SV-style CEO – she gets her own lunch in the cafeteria
MAJOR COMPANIES
FB gets an earful from 40 agencies
Mayer tells Y! board that company needs more engineers
Evidence says iPhone holding its own against Android
Google beats the street on earnings
FB testing interesting sponsored results feature
YT seems to have a good business model finally
START UPS
Kayak has priced its IPO above the expected range
AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Viacom and DirecTV reach agreement
RESEARCH
Data based targeting has exploded in the US
SCUTTLE
MAJOR COMPANIES
$550Mil spent on WIN phone marketing so far – without a lot to show for it
Yahoo board believes Mayer can make it more competitive with FB, Google
START UPS
$5Mil in funding for Save for Later app Pocket
AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Forrester issues report concluding digital agencies need to become "value mediators"
Group M takes its ad growth forecast down to 5.1%
Dish, Group M in national addressable TV trials
RESEARCH
MAJOR COMPANIES
MSFT showcases improvements to Office 365
Comprehensive new social analytics offering from Salesforce Radian6
START UPS
AppDirect gets $8.5Mil, opens its marketplace
Read about Nodeable – cloud based big data tool
AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Check out VW's hands free banner ad
Miller SAB consolidates with MEC in Europe
Macy's taking Shopkick national
Telemundo, iVillage partner to target Hispanics
RESEARCH
eM: Social media usage among marketers has plateaued
SCUTTLE
MAJOR COMPANIES
Marissa Mayer is the new CEO at Yahoo
START UPS
Mom focused flash sale site Totsy 18.5Mil
Read about Virool, a way to get more video views
Autodesk acquires SocialCam for $60Mil
File sharing service Egnyte lands $16Mil from Google Ventures
Mobile rewards network Kiip lands $11Mil
Hootsuite expanding internationally
Check out "LinkedIn for Creatives" Behance
RESEARCH
Online sales down quarter over quarter in Q2
SCUTTLE
MAJOR COMPANIES
MSFT and NBC part ways, renamed MSNBC = NBCNews.com
NOKIA slashes price of Lumia 900
Amazon working on a bigger Kindle Fire to compete with iPad
AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Advertisers troubled by media rebates to agencies
Sign of the times: Clorox intros CPG line aimed exclusively at US Hispanics
American Media names first digital chief
PHD lands Farmers Insurance media Account
RESEARCH
Social TV explodes – 350 Mil posts and check ins so far this year
MAJOR COMPANIES
FB "Like" spam a growing issue
FB automating home page buying
START UPS
Digg sold to Betaworks for, well, not very much
Read about Barry Diller's Aereo, a device to bring TV to mobile phones
AGENCIES AND BRANDS
Kaplan Thaler merging with Publicis
Activist investor Ackman takes stake in underperforming P&G
RESEARCH
Nielsen releases stats on mobile OS market share
Report: The secret lives of teens online
