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General Motors Could Begin Offering Twitter In Their Cars
An early April Fool’s Day joke, or the real deal? You judge.
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Cuban: NBA Makes Money with Twitter
We're hearing more and more about companies and organizations making better use of Twitter as a revenue driver than Twitter itself. As far as entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is concerned, the NBA is one of those organizations.
Local Google News Feature Recently Expanded
Here in the United States, we've been enjoying the local news section in Google News for a while now. Last year, Google launched this feature allowing people all over the country to see news pertaining to their local city aggregated in its own section on Google News just like the World, National, Business, Entertainment, etc. categories. On Friday Google launched the feature for Google News…
New YouTube Call to Action Works Well for Non-profits
This week YouTube launched a call-to-action feature for its non-profit partners, allowing them to include in-video clickable ads leading to their web sites. Apparently they are quite effective, because in one day, one of the partners raised $10,000 using one. Of course it probably helps that the video was featured on YouTube's home page. The video can be seen here:
AdSense Video Units Get The Axe
Here's a bit of bad news for anyone using AdSense video units: there simply aren't enough of you, and as a result, Google plans to stop pursuing the monetization option. The company's left individuals about one month to land on another strategy.
Google Taking TV Ads Online
Google is reportedly readying a service that will allow advertisers to distribute ads across not only television through Google TV Ads, but through YouTube as well. According to the Wall Street Journal, the service is called Google TV Ads Online, and will be launched within the next several months.
