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  • Microsoft, Ingenio to Deliver Pay-Per-Call Ads

    The mobile advertising game got more interesting on Monday when Microsoft and Ingenio, a San Francisco-based company that specializes in delivering pay-per-call ads to mobile device users, announced a deal.

  • Pixsy and PureVideo Team Up

    On Monday, a day that was owned by Google and YouTube’s big news, Pixsy, a “visual search” site that looks for images and videos across thousands of content providers on the Web, announced a partnership with new video search…

  • Almost Two-Thirds of Online Gamers are Women

    Late last week, Nielsen Entertainment released its third annual Active Gamer Benchmark Study, and the results indicated that 56% of the 117 million Active Gamers in the U.S. in 2006 played online, and that 64% of these online gamers are women.

  • Google, YouTube Notch Deals, Make a Deal of Their Own

    On Monday, Google announced two separate deals with Warner Music Group and Sony BMG Music that will allow Google Video users to view music videos from both labels at no charge, thanks to Google’s ad-supported model. The…

  • Keyword Advertising – to police or not?

    On September 28th a judicial decision was handed down in Google’s favor, a decision impacting the multitudes of businesses that engage in paid search advertising. This decision, believed to be the first United States court ruling of…

  • Just Don’t Call It GooTube

    How would you spend one-point-six-five billion dollars? That’s the question the owners of YouTube now face after their most impressive sale to the mighty Google. It was less than one week ago, in the wee hours of the 6th, that…

  • Pixel Bling – The Embedded Culture

    The purchase of YouTube is one of those Internet deals that will be remembered for years to come. It ranks up there with other landmark acquisitions such as Yahoo’s buying Overture, eBay buying PayPal, IAC buying…

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  • Online Gambling Goes Bust in the U.S.

    After the House of Representatives and the Senate approved the Safe Port Act on Saturday, a bill that includes the barring of U.S. banks and credit card companies from making payments to online gambling sites, the industry all…

  • CPA Empire Breakaway Fitness Challenge Update

    Our contestants made incredible progress during the first week of the challenge. Scott Richter has dropped an amazing 12 pounds since last week and Jenny Frederick lost an outstanding, but not quite as impressive 6…