I'm at eBay's X.commerce developer conference where CEO John Donahoe kicked things off by introducing what X.commerce is and what it hopes to become. Just like eBay opened up PayPal last year for third-party developers to integrate payments into their…
TargusInfo, a major direct marketing tools provider and the parent company of Localeze, a "Big 3" provider of business listings, will be acquired by NeuStar for $650 million in cash. The deal enhances NeuStar's positioning as a leader in authentication…
For the next few days I'll be at eBay's X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco, where we'll see lots of announcements that bring together its platform. X.commerce is meant to give retailers of all sizes better tools to conduct…
Facebook advertising and integrated marketing concepts seem to be top of mind for 200+ reps of midsize agencies gathered in Scottsdale, Arizona, at BOLO 2011: Be On The Lookout. It is my second year in a row speaking here—certainly, one…
BIA/Kelsey will offer a view into two of our key forecasts at the upcoming ILM Asia conference, Oct. 25-26 at The Regent Singapore. The first will be the freshly updated global Yellow Pages forecast, which will be summarized in…
In an ongoing effort to provide more multimedia here, we're unearthing and packaging up lots of past conference video. This is also a good exercise as we gear up for our flagship ILM West conference coming up in December. Below…
Google, Facebook, American Express, Groupon and others are all working on electronic wallet concepts that can help store and process deals along with other promotions and event tickets. At least one deals vendor, however, is banking that it will take…
We’ve just announced ILM West, our big December show, which takes place in San Francisco Dec. 12-14. Can we beat last year’s record attendance of 675+? We like our chances. The timing couldn’t be better. So much progress has been…
I was never into the black turtlenecks and the cult that grew around him. But if he wasn't inspirational, then nobody is. Pushing the envelope on tech...coming back from being fired....the way he handled his sickness. It isn’t well-remembered, of…
I recently got a question from a colleague. The answer relates closely to the "Mobile Starting Line" panel we had at the recent DMS conference, and other market happenings. See the thread below. As blogs are increasingly becoming a place…
EMarketer is out with its latest mobile forecast revision, projecting U.S. mobile ad revenues to grow from $743 million last year to $4.4 billion in 2015. This is right in line with the forecast we released in February, especially in…
Following our earlier coverage of today's Apple announcements, you can watch Apple's promo video for the iPhone4S and iOS5 by clicking below.
ILM Asia has added two exciting speakers to its lineup. Adrian Tan, COO of Groupon Singapore, will join our special Deals Forum on day 2 of ILM Asia. Meanwhile, Michelle Sherwood, exec VP of strategic marketing at the Australian directory giant Sensis,…
Today Apple held its first major product unveiling of the post-Jobs era. As guessed by many, it introduced not an iPhone 5, but an iPhone 4.5 of sorts. It's the 4S, similar to Apple's jump from the iPhone 3G to…
Tippr’s efforts to use patents that it had acquired to help persuade deals companies into forming partnerships appears to be over, at least for now. A federal patent lawsuit it brought in February against 14 companies -- mostly competing white-label…
The news came over the wires this weekend that Bob Pittman has been named as the new CEO for radio and outdoor giant Clear Channel Communications. Pittman, who is the opening keynoter at ILM West Dec. 12 in San Francisco,…
