I'm late to this news this morning ... But Google makes another sort of local push ... into radio, buying dMarc Broadcasting of Newport Beach, California. There's a reported downpayment of just over $100 million and more than $1 billion…
Open federation for Google Talk: the other Google announcement today. This is about the ability of IM clients/systems to connect with one another. More from Om Malik.
Q4 revenues were $1.5 billion, a 39 percent increase from $1.078 billion for the same period of 2004. This impressive growth was not enough to satisfy some analysts' very high expectations, although revenues were in line with consensus expectations. The…
For the past several weeks, I've been receiving tons of e-mails about speaking opportunities at the show in March and I've had to defer people. Our agenda is done and we're going though a quick final review. This is only…
Here's an AP story exploring the privacy implications of high-resolution online mapping. Nothing particularly new here except that the issue is getting flagged. We may be in an era of new privacy initiatives (we'll see). The consumer zeitgeist may be…
Some/many people are not working in the U.S. today because of Martin Luther King Jr. Here's a piece on "globalizing" his legacy from The New York Times (reg. req'd). And here's bio info from Wikipedia. And here's Google's "I have…
I had a briefing with Rick Szatkowski of a company called NeoMedia, which has a range of product offerings. What we talked about, however, was a pretty compelling mobile ad infrastructure called "PaperClick," which links the wireless and physical worlds…
I got word today from Verizon that SuperPages advertisers (horizontal links across the top) will appear in MSN local search results. This is an extension of Verizon's existing relationship with MSN, which provides the listings for MSN Yellow Pages. Verizon…
In addition to the announced button on Motorola phones, BlackBerry says it will support Google Talk IM (among others) and Google Local Maps. Separately, Google filed a patent application in the mobile space that appears to be about delivering calls…
The Wall Street Journal (sub. req'd) has a piece today about the mainstreaming of VoIP through handsets that look and act like traditional cordless phones: A slew of new phones are heading to stores aimed at the millions of people…
Shawn Riegsecker, president of local media buying agency Centro, wrote a thoughtful commentary in MediaPost (reg. req'd) that argues online editions of local newspapers are far from dead in the water and represent desired inventory from an advertiser perspective. I…
John Battelle points to an Andy Beal post pointing a Pamela Parker ClickZ story about Google putting sponsored links on the map itself. (Click one of the blue "pushpins.") We knew this day would come (and have been talking about…
Free local classified provider LiveDeal announced a new program, AdTarget, that permits national brands and large advertisers to target its local users across the U.S. and Canada. This represents a new revenue stream for LiveDeal, which has been creatively diversifying…
Here's a release that reflects continued traffic growth at Interchange Corp.'s Local.com destination. The company said that for the month of December 2005, Local.com reached 6.9 million unique visitors and over 33 million page views, up from 5 million unique…
Spot Runner launched today. It presents itself as an ad agency, but it's really an Internet-based TV ad buying network. It's totally local, and it's potentially revolutionary (yes, that's what I said), offering spot cable buying for small businesses. It's…
There are a number of interesting things I ran across today. Given my schedule this morning, here's an abbreviated roundup: Fast Search & Transfer's Stephen Baker points me to a results page on the Denver Post site to show FAST's…
This came out today. Here's what they had to say about it in Mountain View at "the plex." Today is the 10th day of January and I'm counting four product announcements (or their equivalents) so far—ahead of last year's pace.
Google and Yahoo! have been grabbing the video headlines recently. But in what appears to be something of a coup for America Online and a quick out for a start-up, AOL said it was buying new video search engine Truveo:…
Google, again pushing beyond the browser, announced (per a story in MediaPost per Forbes) that it would be working with Volkswagen to develop an automotive nagivation system based on Google Earth: VOLKSWAGEN AG AND GOOGLE HAVE entered into a deal…
MIVA, formed from the combination of FindWhat and ESpotting, was the first network to adopt PPCall and is a marquee player abroad, but it has stuggled in the U.S. of late. The company has now apparently retained Deutsche Bank to…
