Following Peter Krasilovsky's post on AOL's 25th anniversary, CEO Tim Armstrong just gave a keynote interview with Mike Arrington here at the TechCrunch disrupt conference. As is a common topic -- and modus operandi in his stewardship of a transforming…
Yext just announced at the TechCrunch disrupt conference here in New York that it will launch a reputation management platform called Yext Rep. Joining its "pay per action" management dashboard (and products in the market from Marchex, AmIVisible and Chatmeter),…
On Friday, Search Engine Watch's Jonathan Allen posed a question to me about the meaning of Google's recent acquisitions of voice over IP technology providers. These includes On2, November's acquisition of Gizmo5 for $30 million, and last month's Global IP…
On Friday, Search Engine Watch's Jonathan Allen posed a question to me about the meaning of Google's recent acquisitions of voice over IP technology providers. These includes On2, November's acquisition of Gizmo5 for $30 million, and last month's Global IP…
On Friday, Search Engine Watch's Jonathan Allen posed a question to me about the meaning of Google's recent acquisitions of voice over IP technology providers. These includes On2, November's acquisition of Gizmo5 for $30 million, and last month's Global IP…
The Digital Strategies for Broadcasting conference just wrapped up and it was a success by all measures. Lots of good sessions on how broadcasters are applying longstanding strengths toward new media and formats. In many ways it's similar to the…
Lisa Bishop at Gray Television took a few contrarian views when discussing mobile strategies, during an afternoon DSB session on “New Ad Revenues for New Times.” Taking issue with the app craze we’ve seen dominating the media world over the…
Colleen Brown, president and CEO of Fisher Communications, keynoted morning sessions at DSB 2010, arguing for a warmer embrace of new technologies that can unlock traditional TV broadcasters' core strengths. "Broadcasters have so many inherent strengths. In the barrage of…
We see lots of innovation in some industries that inspires products in others. Often, this is a good thing: like the mobile device's geotargeting that's making its way to the desktop via location-aware browsers. But more often, this feature creep…
Where (formerly uLocate) continues to redefine itself as a mobile local content and ad targeting play. Its latest move offers coupons and nearby specials to users who check in to places through its mobile app. According to today's release: When…
Bing has seen some solid overall growth since it launched. It continues to accomplish its stated goal of differentiating from the common set of search engine features. And search market share continues to increase. Its visually oriented nature and feature…
MoVoxx today announced it has been acquired by mobile marketing firm Adenyo for an undisclosed amount. Adenyo offers a mobile ad platform including an analytics engine, mobile payments and coupons. It's strong in Europe, but it hopes MoVoxx will give…
Related to our ongoing blog coverage of mobile bar code scanning (and BIA/Kelsey report released last week), Occipital announced its RedLaser app has reached 50 million scans. Other milestones include 2 million downloads and 950,000 active users. RedLaser is one…
Comscore today reported that U.S. mobile Web usage has reached 30 percent of mobile subscribers. This is out of a total 234 million mobile subscribers age 13 and up. The Q1 mobile market data also breaks down user activities and…
Yelp just announced it has launched in France -- a move that makes sense for a site that bases itself on food, dining and entertainment. From the release: The launch of Yelp France underscores the site's increased effort towards broader…
I didn't have the chance to go to O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this year, but it's always a good show for broad and futuristic views of the world and of technology. Mobile has been a hot topic…
Google's pace of functional and aesthetic upgrades to mobile products has been swift. Chief among these is search and results pages. Tied to recent upgrades to online SERPs, Google has integrated filtering tools to the corresponding mobile pages on iPhone…
We've been getting lots of questions about Apple's acquisition of voice search processing start-up Siri. A report is in the works for BIA/Kelsey subscribers but here's a "thumbnail." First, it signals a vote of confidence for the company and the…
We've been getting lots of questions about Apple's acquisition of voice search processing start-up Siri. A report is in the works for BIA/Kelsey subscribers but here's a "thumbnail." First, it signals a vote of confidence for the company and the…
In case you missed it last night, the Daily Show had a great segment on recent Apple news items such as the iPad (a "big iPhone" that Jon Stewart uses to trick his kids that he's shrinking). But most of…
