GigaOM: Goodbye FM – Hello IDG

In what can only be termed as a warm and mushy goodbye post GigaOM has joined the number of big name blogging properties that have left the Federated Media stable for other pastures. As Om Malik said ... continue

Wal-Mart sics the dogs of war on Black Friday Ad linkers

This kind of stuff is enough to turn the smile of the Wal-Mart Smiley character upside down. In the past Wal-Mart has been well know for siccing its legions of lawyers on any site that displayed any ... continue

There is stupid and then there is f*&^ing stupid

I really don't give a rat's ass that some of the blogging glitterati boo-hoo things like advertising on blogs or basically anything Web 2.0 and social media related. I firmly believe that if there are advertisers that ... continue

Google bids goodbye to Yahoo

Google has terminated its advertising services agreement with Yahoo! Inc. that was first announced in June. Yahoo is broken hearted that Google chose to withdraw from the agreement rather than defend the partnership in court. Google notified ... continue

Bloggers whining about political AdSense ads

It's bad enough that we have Web 2.0 and social media purest types who want us to basically give away all our work for free but because of the flaring tempers during this election we've got bloggers ... continue

Halloween or not this could be damn scary – nightmare warning

I got an PR email earlier today from Crispin Porter + Bogosky that could be responsible for birthing a whole new wave of nightmares that could reach well beyond Halloween. For those of you who might not ... continue

Yup, It’s true, we have influence – now what?

This is hilarious after a fashion. On one hand we had the big kerfuffle last week about blogs dying off and being replaced by microblogging services like Twitter, FriendFeed etc. Now we have Jupiter Research; who was ... continue

Akamai acquires acerno for $95 million in cold cash

Akamai Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire acerno for approximately $95 million in cash. The acquisition of acerno, a unique online co‐operative of shopping and purchase data for enabling more relevant online advertising, is expected to ... continue

Brand Asset Digital brings contextual advertising to P2P networks

Advertising on file sharing sites has always been a difficult market. Most mainstream advertisers don't want their brands tied into illegal content, and nearly all the big ad providers prohibit their ads from being shown on such ... continue

Dodge Ram Challenge: truck advertising meets internet show

Dodge is seeking to drive buyers to the declining truck market through a new internet series, the Dodge Ram Challenge that combines an internet based reality series with infotainment. The Ram Challenge brings four teams together to drive ... continue

Yahoo expected to cut jobs Tuesday

Yahoo is expected to distribute pink slips to at least 1,000 of its employees by Tuesday, according to a report from Mercury News. On that same day, the search company is also set to announce its third ... continue

ReadWriteWeb tries something new with RSS ads

Despite years of talk, advertising in syndicated feeds (RSS) has never met the expectations once promised for it. In recent times, RSS advertising actually went backwards, when Google shut FeedBurner's native RSS advertising service, replacing it instead ... continue