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I wonder how many people in the interactive advertising industry are feeling suckered by Google this morning. For the past few years,…
New York City has the largest amount of technology workers in the U.S. according to a new study from the American Electronics Association (AeA)New York City led the nation with 316,500 technology jobs in 2006, according to the most current data available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The region added 6,400 tech jobs in 2006, the second fastest growing cybercity behind Seattle, which…
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has thrown a little love (and presumably a lot of money) at Twitter. Twitter creator Biz Stone made the announcement via his blog that Bezos Expeditions, Bezos's investment firm, joined Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet on the Twitter investment team.
It's not true there's no such thing as bad publicity, but it is true that not all "bad" publicity is bad; sometimes bad (better, controversial) publicity plus free plus plausible deniability is a winner. Also true: teenagers have sex, always have, and parents aren't thrilled about that.
Now that Google is a publicly traded company, traditions and advertiser friendly philosophies seem destined to clash with fiduciary responsibility. Imagine this scenario: Everybody uses Google, so every advertiser needs a presence there, and the law of supply and demand makes Google one expensive place to be.
Some pretty big names will be in one place tomorrow to unveil a new initiative called InternetforEveryone.org, which aims to make access to a fast, open and affordable Internet a basic right for all Americans.
