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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Buys Radio Ad Firm; AdWords Headed To Radio Distribution — Wow. Google is to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, a company that puts ads into radio stations, paying up to $1.1 billion for it. Google apparently plans to distribute AdWords via radio this way.
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Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
Google to buy radio ad company — Google is acquiring a radio advertising company, broadening the reach of its ad business. — The search giant said Tuesday that it will pay $102 million in cash for DMarc Broadcasting, a Newport Beach, Calif., company that works with radio advertisers in the sales …
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Google Adwords Coming to a Radio Near You — Hot off the press! (yep, MarketingPilgrim breaks the news first) — Google has acquired dMarc technology for $102 million in cash and plans to integrate into the Google AdWords platform, creating a new radio ad distribution channel for Google advertisers.
biz.yahoo.com:
Google to Acquire dMarc Broadcasting — Brings Radio Advertising to Google AdWords Advertisers — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 17, 2006—Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) today announced it has agreed to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, Inc., a Newport Beach …
Mike / Silver Mac:
G5 vs. Intel iMac boot up time — We all saw that video where the guys are comparing start up times between two iMacs, one running Intel and the other running G5 processor. If you are one of several people left on this planet who didn't see it here is the link.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
iMac 17" Core Duo — Introduction — Apple 17" iMac Core Duo — The Big Switch has been publicly underway for a mere seven months, and it has borne fruit in the form of a new iMac and laptop, the MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro is due to hit store shelves at some point in February.
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nielsenbuzzmetrics.com:
VNU Brings Together BuzzMetrics, Intelliseek to Create Nielsen BuzzMetrics Service — NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2006 BuzzMetrics and Intelliseek—two leaders in the tracking and analysis of online consumer-generated media—today announced an agreement in principle under which BuzzMetrics …
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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Digging Out the News — A Web Site Invites Readers to Be Editors, — But the Approach Presents Some Risks — What would happen if a Web site's readers — instead of editors — could decide which stories should be published? — Technology journalist Kevin Rose decided to find out.
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Can Murdoch Win on the Web? — He may spend $1 billion to push DirecTV into high-speed broadband — a risky bet on a hotly contested market that just might pay off — Since the late 1990s, satellite TV has created a powerful rival to the cable TV industry.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Michael Dell Should Eat His Words, Apple Chief Suggests — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 - It may not be the last laugh, but on Friday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, shared an e-mail chuckle with his employees at the expense of Dell, a big rival.
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
TOP TEN REASONS WHY NOBODY READS YOUR BLOG — TOP TEN REASONS WHY NOBODY READS YOUR BLOG: — 1. You're not a good-looking female who likes posting naked pictures of herself. — Pretty damn obvious, if you ask me. [Not safe for work. You've been warned.] — 2. There's nothing in it for them.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft aims to topple Lotus' Domino — Aiming to woo users of Lotus Notes, Microsoft is releasing software designed to help companies switch to its own line of collaboration tools. — The collection of free software provides tools to help move data over to Microsoft's platform from IBM's Lotus software.
Kevin Yank / SitePoint Blogs:
Apple "photocasting" Mac only, uses invalid RSS — (via Dave Winer) Apple's newly-released iPhoto 6 does an admirable job of making it easy for its users to publish feeds of their photos from their desktop. When Steve Jobs announced the product, he cited its use of "industry standard" RSS technology to make this posssible.
Mark Baard / Wired News:
New GPL Is Free at Last — CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Richard Stallman, author of the most radical and durable license for free-software developers, is updating the GNU Public License for the first time since 1991. — Stallman released a draft of GPL Version 3 at a conference at MIT here Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Blogging Isn't Just Writing, It's a Dialogue — So magazine vet Simon Dumenco is saying that blogs are just writing and that he underlying creative/media function remains exactly the same. While some of what he says is true from a structural POV, from a cultural one it's bunk.
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Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
SEMs Welcome Shorter Yahoo! Ads — This week, Yahoo! Search Marketing will begin truncating its sponsored search text ads after the first 70 characters. Many search marketers see the move as a positive one. — While some search marketers may miss Yahoo!'s longer text ads …