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Google Asks Time Warner For Money Back
Roughly three years ago, Google bought a five percent stake in AOL for $1 billion. AOL then went down the tubes, and…
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Microsoft Virtual Earth Gets Massive Imagery Update
Earlier this week, Al Gore, Jimmy Buffet, and a famous oceanographer came together to announce a Google Earth update. Don't look for the same level of hubbub here, but Microsoft's now taking its own impressive step in this area by releasing about 100 terabytes' worth of Virtual Earth imagery.
Interview with Muxtape CEO Justin Ouellette
Muxtape has been known in the past as a place where music lovers could create their own playlists of songs and share them with others like an old school mix-tape. Last summer, it was shut down after legal issues with the RIAA.
Is It Time For Facebook To Sell Out?
Methinks the Telegraph was hoping to spark controversy when they published this article yesterday: Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world’s largest market research databases.
PETA
Say what you want about PETA’s vego-fascist ways and loony breast milk Ben & Jerry’s proposals, whoever does their marketing had a stroke of genius by getting an ad banned by the network broadcasting the Super Bowl—a method we shall forthwith describe as “The GoDaddy Method” of viral marketing. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ “Veggie Love” commercial was deemed too hot for NBC…
AOL Names Former Yahoo Exec To Run Its Ad Business
AOL has named former Yahoo sales executive, Greg Coleman President of its advertising business Platform- A. "Greg Coleman is perfectly suited to build on the foundation we created at Platform-A and drive branded display sales across our fast-growing MediaGlow programming network," said Randy Falco, AOL Chairman and CEO.
