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• 4 Ways to Find Your Brand’s Voice
  Ready to start marketing your new company, product or brand? Before you create a blog, draft content for your brand-spanking-new website or start tweeting, first define your “brand voice.”In a nutshell, this is the heart and soul of your communi…
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• HP Thinks Giant Tablets Are a Good Idea
  Windows 8 has officially created a new category: the monster tablet. Last fall's Sony Tap 20 could have been dismissed as a one-off aberration, but others have since launched giant screens equipped with batteries, including HP, who just unveiled the…
  - 2 hours ago, 22 May 13, 11:04pm -
• Teen's Invention Could Create 20-Second Phone Charge
  Tech manufacturers that boast how fast their devices can juice up might want to listen up: A California teen has developed a super-capacitor that could lead to a 20- to 30-second phone charge.Super-capacitors are energy-storage devices that have a l…
  - 3 hours ago, 22 May 13, 10:01pm -
• 99.9% Of New Mobile Malware Targets Android Phones
  Android, the world's most popular smartphone operating system, has malware issuesWe knew that already. But a new report suggests these issues are only destined to worsenIn fact, 99.9% of new mobile malware detected in the first quarter of 2013 is de…
  - 4 hours ago, 22 May 13, 9:00pm -
• Vertus Makes Any Speaker Bluetooth Friendly
  Syncing audio to a Bluetooth speaker is a common practice these days, but sending it wirelessly to two old-school speakers at the same time is a thing of the future.A new Kickstarter project for the Vertus, which has already reached its $40,000 fun…
  - 5 hours ago, 22 May 13, 7:57pm -
• NFL Star Meets Quadriplegic Fan After Viral Facebook Campaign
  In January, Eran Melnik wrote NFL superstar J.J. Watt a public message on FacebookMelnik explained that he's a nurse for a young man named Itzy Cagen. Cagen has been a quadriplegic since being struck by a hit-and-run driver as a toddler, but for the…
  - 5 hours ago, 22 May 13, 7:29pm -
• Which Video Game Console Do You Want? [POLL]
  It's official: Microsoft has unveiled the Xbox One, its newest gaming console and entertainment system. While many of the features were met with positive reviews on social media, those loyal to other video game consoles also took the liberty of sound…
  - 6 hours ago, 22 May 13, 6:58pm -
• Quantum Dot Technology On Its Way to Smartphones, Tablets and TVs
  Just when you thought display technology could hardly get any better, along come quantum dots, making screens more colorful while consuming less powerThis is not just some pie-in-the-sky dream of scientists and geeks. Nanosys and 3M have put this St…
  - 6 hours ago, 22 May 13, 6:29pm -
• Trunk iPhone Charging Cable Is Flexible Yet Rigid
  Trunk is a charging cable equipped with a USB connector on one side and a Lightning connector on the other, and it's rigid enough to hold your iPhone 5 or iPod in whatever position you desire. Made by a company called ILoveHandles, this $19.95 char…
  - 7 hours ago, 22 May 13, 6:02pm -
• Watch This Rocket-Powered Bicycle Hit 163 MPH
  François Gissy is a French bicyclist, but he's about the furthest thing from your typical fixie-riding hipster. No, this is how Gissy rolls: attaching a rocket to his bike to reach a reported speed of 163 miles per hourThat's a world record, accor…
  - 7 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:33pm -

• See How Much the Next 'Call of Duty' Graphics Improve
  Call of Duty: Ghosts represents a significant graphical upgrade from the previous titles in the series, according to publisher Activision.To prove this, it showed a video during Tuesday's Xbox One unveiling that shows footage from the upcoming Ghos…
  - 8 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:19pm -
• Intellectual Property Commission: Pass CISPA Now
  A bipartisan and independent commission studying corporate espionage's impact on the American economy recommended passing the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) in its report released Wednesday.". . .Corporations need…
  - 8 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:01pm -
• Teens Getting Tired of Facebook Drama, Pew Survey Finds
  Though Facebook is still the most popular social network among teens, their enthusiasm for Mark Zuckerberg's network is decreasing, according to new findings from the Pew Research Center.Pew reports that 77% of online teens (ages 12-17) surveyed us…
  - 8 hours ago, 22 May 13, 4:39pm -
• HP Stock Jumps 13% After Beating Earnings Estimates
  Hewlett-Packard posted mixed results in its second quarter, but beat analysts' profit estimates, helping to send the stock up more than 13% in after-hours tradingHP reported earnings per share of $0.87 on revenue of $27.6 billion, beating Wall Stree…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 4:20pm -
• Storm-Penetrating Drones Could Fly Into Tornadoes
  Engineering students at Oklahoma State University (OSU) have designed three concept drones that could one day help storm trackers and researchers better understand tornadoes.Led by professor Jamey Jacob, three teams of students outlined plans for St…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:55pm -
• ZZ Ward's App Uses Facebook to Plot When Fans Discovered Her Music
  ZZ Ward, who Fuse TV recently proclaimed as one of 30 must-see artists at South by Southwest, just launched a web app that plots when fans first discovered her. How? The "365 Days of ZZ Ward" app uses Facebook's Open Graph to browse users' Facebook…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:40pm -
• Jif Peanut Butter Weighs In on GIF Pronunciation Debate
  It was only a matter of time.Jif, the popular peanut butter company, has finally weighed in on the debate about how to pronounce GIF:It's pronounced Jif® #Jif #GIF bit.ly/10QjQim— Jif® Peanut Butter (@Jif) May 22, 2013The tweet links to,…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:35pm -
• 14-Year-Old Girl Destroys Van Halen Guitar Solo
  Here's a video of Tina, 14, covering Eddie Van Halen‘s “Eruption” guitar solo and absolutely shredding itIf the words “Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ guitar solo” have no meaning to you, we'll get to the meat of the story: This girl i…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:20pm -
• Hovertrax is Like a Segway Without Handlebars
  Vancouver, Wash.-based company Investist has a new idea for rolling in style. It's called Hovertrax, and it's an auto-balancing, electronic transporter with two-wheeled gyro technology — or, more simply, a wiggle board with power. The group is…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:02pm -
• Watch Your Heartbeat on Xbox One’s New Kinect
  Two years and millions of units later, Microsoft Kinect motion and voice capture and control system for the Xbox 360 is an unparalleled success. So it came as little surprise that the powerful controller is now an essential part of the Xbox One conso…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:49pm -
• Twitter Introduces Two-Step Authentication
  Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to more securely protect accounts, the company announced Wednesday.The move comes after a number of hacks of high-profile Twitter accounts, including The Onion, the Associated Press and E! On…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:38pm -
• Jennifer Lopez and Verizon Launch Mobile Stores for Latinos
  LAS VEGAS — Jennifer Lopez unexpectedly took the stage at a Verizon Wireless press conference Wednesday to talk about Latinos and wireless service.“As modern Latinos we do things differently, including how we shop for mobile devices,” said Lop…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:27pm -
• Watch People Fall for This Google Glass Prank
  In 1995, Tiger Electronics released a wearable video game system called the R-Zone that projected crappy beat 'em ups directly into kids' eyeballs. It was a flop — and obviously way ahead of its time.Fast forward to 2013, the year of Google Glass…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:15pm -
• Giphy Wants to Make GIFs More Legit
  GIFs are about to get a bit more seriousGiphy, a startup that recently launched out of Betaworks, aims to empower the community of GIF creators and consumers by making it easier for users to search for GIFs and for artists to get their work discover…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:05pm -
• How 3 Brands Use Agile Marketing Tactics
  This article was written by Elana Varon, and a version of it originally appeared on the Adobe-owned site CMO.com. For more information about BrandSpeak, click here.Agile management methods, experts say, provide a framework for making better decision…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:01pm -
• Bystander Live-Tweets Brutal London Machete Attack
  Police shot two assailants Wednesday in a southeastern London neighborhood after they allegedly murdered a person in public with a machete. The victim is believed to be a solider from a nearby barracks, and the British government is treating the even…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:48pm -
• Sports Team's Twitter Takeover Turns Disastrous After Rape Joke
  The L.A. Kings handed its Twitter account over to a local morning show host, who ended up having to apologize for his posts Tuesday eveningKevin Ryder is co-host of L.A. radio station KROQ's Kevin and Bean show. He took over the Kings's Twitter page…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:32pm -
• Rent 'The Hobbit' Free on Redbox Instant (Today Only)
  Redbox Instant is offering a free rental of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey — but only on May 22 — after fans unlocked the freebie in a tweet-to-stream promotion.People who rent the movie before the clock strikes 12 a.m. ET on May 23 will have…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:16pm -
• Apple to Build Macs in Texas
  Apple CEO Tim Cook got specific about where in the U.S. the company would be building its Mac computers, something he promised last year.Cook said in a statement before the Senate subcommitee in Washington D.C. that a factory in Texas will be used t…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:07pm -
• Buzzy Takes the Sting Out of Shots
  In her lecture “Hacking Healthcare: How Makers can Save Medicine” at the 2013 Bay Area Maker Faire, Dr. Amy Baxter, an Atlanta-based pediatrician and pain researcher, told the story of taking her 4-year-old son in for a routine vaccination.Like…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:50pm -

TechCrunch Headlines

• Samsung Galaxy S4 Shipments Hit 10 Million One Month After Release
  Samsung's Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company announced its latest milestone today just eight days after confirming that it had shipped over 6 million units of the S4 since its international launch on A…
  - 1 hour ago, 22 May 13, 11:39pm -
• Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future?
  A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon tweeted something thought-provoking:"What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian."I happened to be sitting in a movie theate…
  - 6 hours ago, 22 May 13, 6:46pm -
• Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It
  Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us.Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited Two-Factor authentication, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire mechanism… and he's got a patent to prove it.
  - 7 hours ago, 22 May 13, 6:19pm -
• LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui's Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himself
  Fresh from closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse, LinkedIn has made another acquisition to dive deeper into the mobile space. TechCrunch has found out, and confirmed, that the social network has aqui-hired Maybe, the social polling startup fo…
  - 7 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:39pm -
• Encoding.com's Vid.ly Integrates With FreeWheel To Provide Monetization Of Universal, Cross-Platform Video URLs
  Cloud encoding vendor Encoding.com launched Vid.ly a couple of years ago to provide video creators with a way to publish a single universal video URL and then have that content accessible on any device. Now it's providing a way to monetize those vide…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 4:00pm -
• GiftCards.com Agrees To Buy Giftly To Grow A Mobile Platform
  GiftCards.com, a Pittsburgh-based company that has been around for more than a decade and has sold 5 million gift cards, agreed to buy San Francisco startup Giftly to grow out a mobile platform. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Giftly h…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:19pm -
• Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Danger
  After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web. Unfortunately, it may not help shared accounts like big b…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:18pm -
• Twitter Introduces Charts By Genre And Popularity For Its #Music Service
  We've confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its #Music service for the web, charts that we were accustomed to from the company We Are Hunted, that it acquired and now powers the service.
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:16pm -
• Founder Stories: Parse's Ilya Sukhar On Founding A Startup With Strangers
  For this week's episode of Founder Stories, I sat down with Ilya Sukhar, co-founder and CEO of Parse. The interview was taped days before Parse was acquired by Facebook last month. Parse is a cloud app platform that provides a set of SDKs that enable…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:00pm -
• Adobe Acqui-hires Thumb Labs To Make Mobile Apps For Behance And Its New Creative Cloud
  Another step for Adobe in its bid to become the go-to place in the cloud for those working in design and other creative industries: it is acquiring Thumb Labs, a bootstrapped, New York-based mobile app design agency. Jared Verdi, one of the co-founde…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:58pm -

• We Want YOU To Be The New TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor
  One of the most rewarding aspects of TechCrunch's Disrupt events is the Startup Battlefield -- like a mini-startup school, the dozens of chosen startups that go through the Battlefield training process end up with solid presentation skills, hard-ear…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:48pm -
• Google X Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines
  After previously investing in the company, Google has now acquired Makani Power, a green energy startup that is currently building airborne wind turbines. The acquisition was first reported in Brad Stone’s Businessweek story about Google X, and jud…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:43pm -
• Join CrunchGov's Town Hall With @CoryBooker On Immigration For #iNewark Right Now
  Some of the Internet’s most notable personalities are bringing attention to the need for immigration reform in a 36-hour social media marathon, The March for Innovation. It’s an issue we know our readers care about, so we’re thrilled to give yo…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:41pm -
• Deeplink.me Lets Mobile Users Navigate Through A “Web” Of Apps
  Have you ever wished that you could navigate through the apps on the phone as easy as clicking links on the web? Such a thing may now become a real possibility thanks to a new service from Cellogic, called Deeplink.me. In a nutshell, it’s a bit.ly…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:40pm -
• HTC Can't Stanch The Flow Of Departing Senior Talent As Internal Turmoil Prevails
  A brain drain at a big tech company is never a good thing, and when a lot of that departing talent consists of high-level execs moving on in rapid succession it's bound to look like curtains to outside observers. That appears to be the case at HTC, w…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:36pm -
• Amazon Wants To Build A Bio-Dome Three Blocks From An Actual, Normal Park
  Amazon has reportedly submitted plans for a new futuristic headquarters in Seattle that couples a skyscraper and an accompanying tri-sphere bio-dome like structure. According to the plans, the structure will be able to hold various forms of plant lif…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:22pm -
• Runscope Lands $1.1M From True Ventures And Andreessen Horowitz For Tools That Address The Broken API Plague
  Runscope launched at the Glue conference today with $1.1 million in seed funding from True Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz for its tools that monitor API traffic and address the problems with broken APIs. Also participating were Lerer Ventures, and…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:12pm -
• Made For The World. Built And Designed In China.
  For years, the iPhone has carried a small etching on the back that says ‘Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.’ It’s fueled the stereotype that China is the world’s factory, but hasn’t had a flexible enough education system t…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:48pm -
• Photo App Piictu To Join Betaworks Company Kandu, Will Shut Down On May 31st
  Another photo sharing app bites the dust? Or is something with promise getting another chance? Either way you look at it, betaworks is adding more technology and team members to its arsenal, as photo sharing app Piictu has announced that the team wil…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:34pm -
• Google Drive App For Android Gets Card-Style Redesign, Document Scanner With OCR And Improved Spreadsheet Editing Experience
  Google's Drive app for Android just got a major redesign that brings the Google Now-like card-style look the company introduced with Google Now to its mobile productivity app.
  - 13 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:11pm -

Latest Infographics

• Oklahoma's FEMA Grants Rank Ninth Highest In Country (INFOGRAPHIC) - Huffington Post
  New YorkerOklahoma's FEMA Grants Rank Ninth Highest In Country (INFOGRAPHIC)Huffington PostThis piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily reporting and…
  - 8 hours ago, 22 May 13, 4:27pm -
• State Stress Levels: The Most-Stressed States (INFOGRAPHIC) - Huffington Post
  State Stress Levels: The Most-Stressed States (INFOGRAPHIC)Huffington PostInfographic by Jan Diehm for The Huffington Post. There are countless personal and societal factors that can contribute to stress, and financial stressors are some of the most…
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• The Psychology of Color and Branding (Infographic) - Entrepreneur
  The Psychology of Color and Branding (Infographic)EntrepreneurThe Psychology of Color and Branding (Infographic). BY Kevin Allen | FROM PR Daily| May 22, 2013|. Post Comment |. It's no secret that different colors evoke different emotions in us, and…
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• The Multiple Personalities of Coffee [INFOGRAPHIC] - FOODBEAST
  FOODBEASTThe Multiple Personalities of Coffee [INFOGRAPHIC]FOODBEASTAround 8:45 a.m. on a weekday, the line at the Starbucks next to our office is at least 15 people deep, mostly business types in their smart suits and police officers with their hols…
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• Infographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional Boozehounds - Co.Design
  Co.DesignInfographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional BoozehoundsCo.DesignInfographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional Boozehounds. Infographic of the Day. Ernest Hemingway once said, "A man does not exist until…
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• Diablo III Infographic Shows 2.1 Million Players Still Log On Daily - The Escapist
  PC Gamer MagazineDiablo III Infographic Shows 2.1 Million Players Still Log On DailyThe EscapistDespite the doom-and-gloom that the internet loves to spout about Diablo III's "failure", it seems as though the game is doing quite well for itself one y…
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• Infographic: What you need to know about LTE wireless - TechHive
  Infographic: What you need to know about LTE wirelessTechHiveTeliaSonera launched the world's first publicly available LTE service in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden, in December 2009. Verizon launched the first major LTE service in the United St…
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• Infographic: Apple's Taxes - New Yorker (blog)
  Infographic: Apple's TaxesNew Yorker (blog)On Tuesday, top Apple executives, including the C.E.O. Tim Cook, were out of Silicon Valley and on Capitol Hill. They were there to face the members of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wh…
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• The Rise Of Poverty In American Suburbs [INFOGRAPHIC] - Business Insider
  The Rise Of Poverty In American Suburbs [INFOGRAPHIC]Business InsiderIt's no surprise that huge numbers of Americans joined the ranks of the poor over the last decade. What's more interesting is where poverty is growing. The poor population in the na…
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• Moore Tornado 2013 Path: Damage By The Numbers (INFOGRAPHIC, PHOTOS) - Huffington Post
  Moore Tornado 2013 Path: Damage By The Numbers (INFOGRAPHIC, PHOTOS)Huffington PostThe Associated Press has released a startling infographic chronicling the devastation left in the wake of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado. The twister was on the ground fo…
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• #7: Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--and How It All Came Crashing Down . . .

  

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• #1: Do It! Marketing: 77 Instant-Action Ideas to Boost Sales, Maximize Profits, and Crush Your Competition

  

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• #2: The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America's #1 Wine Brand

  

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• #3: Go Pro - 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional

  

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• Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping
  Shoppify published a 100 page guide on starting and running a dropshipping e-commerce businesses. They provide a nice infographic which is summarized below. What is Dropshipping? A fulfillment method where a store doesn’t keep the product it sells…
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• 7 Tips to Maximize Twitter Engagement
  Fusework Studios, an Internet Marketing, Web Design and SEO agency out of Indianapolis put together this great infographic from a BuddyMedia report. In “Strategies for Effective Tweeting: A Statistical Review” we find the following 7 tips for max…
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• Free Lean Startup Canvas Template
  If you have not yet read “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses” by Eric Ries, drop everything, it’s a highly recommended read. If you have, then you may be interested…
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• A Spreadsheet for Building Adwords Copy
  Use this free spreadsheet to build out your Google Adwords Text Ad copy outside of the Google Adwords Tool. The spreadsheet includes a counter to alert you when your copy is too long and provides a preview function. Click to Download Google Adwords T…
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• Google Adwords Policies for Text and Image Based Ads
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All Things Digital Headlines

• Q&A With HP CEO Meg Whitman and CFO Cathie Lesjak: The Turnaround Is on Schedule
  All is going according to plan.
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• Wikimedia Starts Hunt for New Executive Director
  The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects, said Wednesday it had enlisted m/Oppenheim Associates to help in a global search for an executive director to replace Sue Gardner, who is leaving t…
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• Square Loses Two Execs, Including One Out Before His First Day on the Job
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• Nancy Lublin on Tackling That Toughest of Emerging Markets: Teenagers (Video)
  Try texting, not email. That's just one of many things the "chief old person" at DoSomething.org has learned about how to reach the next generation.
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• HP's Turnaround Progress Slow but Sure, Says CEO Whitman
  “We are fixing a lot of the problems that are keeping HP from being great."
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• Cloud Gaming Startup Happy Cloud Raises $4.25 Million Series A Round
  The Happy Cloud, one of a slew of "cloud gaming" startups trying to bring videogames to new and different platforms, announced Wednesday it had raised a $4.25 million Series A round of venture capital. The round was led by Avalon Ventures and joined…
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• HP's Q2 Earnings Beat Expectations on Weak Sales
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• Apple Hires Tech Analyst Michael Gartenberg
  Veteran tech analyst Michael Gartenberg is jumping the fence to work for a company he has spent decades covering during stints at Gartner, Altimeter and Jupiter Research. Forbes reports, and AllThingsD has independently confirmed, that Gartenberg has…
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• After Months of Hacks, Twitter Launches Heightened Security Features
  A new form of identity verification could help deter account hackers.
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• Next Up for Google X, Airborne Wind Turbines: Google Acquires Makani Power
  Google has acquired Makani Power, which makes wind turbines that fly like kites, for its Google X unit, Bloomberg Businessweek reported and Makani confirmed. Google had previously invested directly in the company, which said it "completed the first e…
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• Microsoft Creates "Yammer North" in Redmond to Learn New Software Tricks
  Microsoft has been quietly operating a group inside its Redmond, Wash., headquarters called Yammer North in an effort to integrate Yammer into its vast software business, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:07pm -
• Verizon Wireless, Jennifer Lopez Partner to Launch Viva Movil, Mobile Retailer Aimed at Latino Market
  Lopez serves as creative chief and majority owner of Viva Movil, which will offer its own stores but carry standard phones.
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:26pm -
• Penguin to Settle in E-Book Dispute
  Pearson PLC's book publishing business, Penguin Group, has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a dispute in the U.S. over the way it priced electronic books, drawing to a close an investigation into the publishing industry's e-book pricing tactics.
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:53pm -
• Samsung Takes a Stake in Component Customer (And Competitor) Pantech
  Samsung becomes the third-largest shareholder in a South Korean smartphone rival.
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:32pm -
• Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers
  Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits.
  - 14 hours ago, 22 May 13, 10:30am -
• Xbox One Joins the Gamecasting Fray With Social Game DVR
  Boom, headshot! Boom, my Xbox recorded a video of that headshot automatically!
  - 15 hours ago, 22 May 13, 10:00am -
• Ushahidi's Juliana Rotich: The Greater Global Lesson Is Local "Context Intelligence" (Video)
  An Internet-connected world does not mean a homogenous world.
  - 16 hours ago, 22 May 13, 9:00am -
• Amid Tech Slowdown, HP CEO Whitman Under Pressure to Show Progress
  Worries that success seen last quarter was a fluke.
  - 16 hours ago, 22 May 13, 8:45am -
• Apple's Made-in-USA Mac Will Be Built in Texas
  Designed by Apple in California, assembled in Texas ...
  - 17 hours ago, 22 May 13, 8:00am -
• Sony Board to Discuss Third Point Plan
  Under pressure from an activist investor to take part of its entertainment business public, Sony said it plans to discuss the proposal with its board.
  - 17 hours ago, 22 May 13, 7:30am -
• Amazon Boosts Financial Support for Employee Education Program
  Amazon plans to announce today that it is raising the maximum amount of tuition reimbursement it pre-pays to some of its employees from $2,000 to $3,000 a year for up to four years. The program, dubbed Amazon Career Choice, gives financial support to…
  - 18 hours ago, 22 May 13, 7:01am -
• Scanadu Hikes Price, Beefs Up Specs of Forthcoming Medical "Tricorder"
  The product gains the ability to measure others as well as cuffless blood-pressure tracking. But it will cost $50 more than anticipated.
  - 18 hours ago, 22 May 13, 7:00am -
• Social Startup Urturn Raises $13.4 Million, Launches Mobile App
  Urturn, the London-based social startup focused heavily on the music and entertainment industry, announced Wednesday that it raised $13.4 million in venture capital. The round was led by Balderton Capital, which contributed more than $10 million, wit…
  - 19 hours ago, 22 May 13, 6:00am -
• Why Microsoft's Xbox One Won't Kick the Cable Guy Out of Your House
  Microsoft's new box does lots of cool stuff. But when it comes to TV, it's still an accessory.
  - 20 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:00am -
• Choosy Developers Choose GIF
  The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story. – Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF, on its pronunciation. Mr Wilhite was the recipient of a lifetime achievem…
  - 23 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:59am -

Search Engine Land Headlines

• Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live
  The fourth release of Google’s spam-fighting “Penguin Update” is now live. But Penguin 4 has a twist. It contains Penguin 2.0 technology under the hood, which Google says is a new generation of tech that should better stop spam. Matt Cutts, the…
  - 8 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:09pm -
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 22, 2013
  Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: DoubleClick Search Tools To Migrate To Enhanced Campaigns Now Out Of Beta The custom toolset Google designed to h…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 4:00pm -
• DoubleClick Search Tools To Migrate To Enhanced Campaigns Now Out Of Beta
  The custom toolset Google designed to help DoubleClick search users migrate to enhanced campaigns has come out of beta. The tools are designed to guide users in identifying similar campaigns that target different devices and merge them into one enh…
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:49pm -
• Site Command Limited To 30 Results? Google Says A Temporary Domain Clustering Bug
  Over the past day or so, we’ve been seeing reports that some of us can replicate ourselves, where the site command (i.e., site:www.domain.com) in Google was limited to only showing 30 results. The rumors were that with the recent domain clustering…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:02pm -
• 2013 Doodle 4 Google Winner Showcases Heartfelt Reunion Between A Soldier & His Daughter
  The 2013 Doodle 4 Google National winner was announced today on Google’s Official Blog. Selected out of 130,000 submissions based on the theme, “My Best Day Ever…”, the winning drawing by Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wisconsin tells the story of…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:38pm -
• Is Google Poaching Clicks From Travel Advertisers? Spend Trends Down Even As Advertisers Increase (Study)
  On the cusp of the summer travel season, AdGooroo has taken a look at the state of paid search in the travel sector in the U.S. The company has found that, on the whole, paid search expenditures have been trending down since 2011. Spend fell 19% fro…
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:23pm -
• Google Trends Gets New Monthly Top Charts & Trending Topics Displayed In Bold Color Visualizations
  Google Trends has started a new monthly “spirit of the times” Top Charts feature with more than 40 categories of Top 10 lists that include people, places and things ranked by search interest. According to today’s post from Google’s Official B…
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:56pm -
• Non-Descriptive Labeling Can Hurt Your SEO & Site Usability
  Those who work in the B2B sector have probably seen non-descriptive labeling used on just about every site they’ve worked on. Such labels may include title tags, URLs, H1 tags or navigation labels. Aside from irritating users, poor labeling pract…
  - 13 hours ago, 22 May 13, 11:46am -
• Interflora Wins Five-Year Battle Over Google AdWords Trademark Infringement
  The High Court of England and Wales ended a five year legal battle between Marks & Spencer and Interflora yesterday.  The court ruled in favor of flower delivery network Interflora, concluding that retailer Marks & Spencer breached trademark infring…
  - 14 hours ago, 22 May 13, 10:48am -
• Study: TV Networks Not Ranking In Key SERP Positions, Losing Valuable Search & Traffic Opportunities
  After evaluating the organic search performance of America’s most popular television networks, SEO research firm RankAbove discovered a majority of the networks are missing out on significant search and traffic opportunities. The study examined fou…
  - 16 hours ago, 22 May 13, 8:33am -

PC Mag Breaking News Headlines

• Samsung Wins Big at CTIA's 2013 E-Tech Awards
  The Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 8.0 get the nod as the top smartphone and tablet of the CTIA trade show as the tech giant also wins a prize for its Galaxy Camera.
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• Cricket Reveals Galaxy S 4, Future Smartphone Plans
  The now No. 5 carrier plans more high-end smartphones on its $50 service plans.
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• Hands On With the Nokia Lumia 925 for T-Mobile
  We go hands on with Nokia's entire new lineup of Windows Phones.
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• Twitter Lead Generation Card Simplifies Branding
  Twitter on Wednesday launched its new Lead Generation Card, in an effort to make it easier for users to show interest in promoted discounts from their favorite brands.
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• Scanadu Scout Turns Smartphones into Emergency Rooms
  Scanadu's real-life 'Star Trek' tricorder is called Scout, and it requires about 10 seconds of direct contact to your left temple before spitting out your vitals to a smartphone.
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• WD's HGST Lifts Curtain on 1.5TB Laptop Hard Disk
  Western Digital subsidiary HGST this week unveiled the Travelstar 5K1500, a three-platter 2.5 inch 9.5mm HDD which will ship in June.
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• Google 'Top Charts' Detail Hot Search Topics
  Google Trends today launched Top Charts — lists of the world's most-searched people, places, and things in more than 40 categories.
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• Xbox One: What We Wanted vs. What We Got
  Let's check out PCMag's top 10 list of things we wanted in the Xbox One, and how that panned out.
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• Twitter Boosts Security With 'Login Verification'
  Twitter this week introduced login verification, which it says is "a form" of two-factor authentication intended to help users better secure their accounts.
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• Google Revamps Drive for Android, Adds Document 'Scan' Function
  Google on Wednesday updated its Drive for Android app with a new look and features aimed at making it easier to store and access your files on-the-go.
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• Schumer Requests User-Friendly Site, App for Storm Info
  Sen. Charles Schumer today pushed for the creation of a Storm.gov online database and mobile app with easy-to-decipher data about major storms.
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• Wisconsin Teen Wins 'Doodle 4 Google' Contest With Emotional Entry
  After 130,000 submissions and millions of votes, Wisconsin 12th grader Sabrina Brady was named the 2013 U.S. Doodle 4 Google National Winner.
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• Walmart Wants Its Mobile Apps To Be 'Indispensable'
  Retailers like Walmart are tapping into the power of mobile to help you shop more effectively and, hopefully, more often.
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• AT&T: We Won't Get Bashed By the 'Dumb Pipe'
  Turning a carrier into a business services platform is a better deal for consumers than creating a two-tier wireless Internet.
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• Foursquare Apps Get 'Super-Specific Searches'
  Foursquare on Wednesday updated its iOS and Android apps to let users get incredibly specific with what they search for.
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• GIF Creator Sets Record Straight: It's Pronounced 'JIF'
  During Tuesday's annual Webby Awards ceremony, GIF creator Steve Wilhite put to rest the question of the animated images' correct pronunciation.
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• Microsoft's Xbox One: What You Need to Know
  Here's a rundown of what we know about the Microsoft Xbox One, so far.
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• Pandora Launches New Facebook-Sharing App
  Pandora is expanding its social media footprint with the new Facebook timeline app.
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• Amazon Launches 'Kindle Worlds' Publishing Platform for Fan Fiction
  Amazon on Wednesday announced a new commercial publishing platform dubbed Kindle Worlds, which will let any writer publish fan fiction based on a variety of well-known stories and characters, and earn royalties for their efforts.
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• Penguin Settles E-Book Price-Fixing Suit for $75 Million
  Book publisher Penguin today announced a $75 million deal that settles a class-action lawsuit over e-book price-fixing.
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• Hello Xbox One, Goodbye Freedom
  The Xbox One has a lot of interesting features. Half of those features put chains around gamers' controllers.
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• Chrome Update Adds Conversational Search, Speed Boost
  Google has rolled out an update to the Chrome browser that allows users to have their results spoken to them.
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• Microsoft Unveils Xbox One; Senators Grill Apple Execs; Teens Oversharing Online
  From the launch of Microsoft's next-generation gaming console to Apple's tax scheme, here's what you missed yesterday.
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• Study: Electronics Use on U.S. Flights On the Rise
  The authors of a DePaul University study observing electronics use on domestic flights argue that the FAA's takeoff/landing ban is too disruptive to continue.
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• McCain Asks Apple to Stop Making Him Update His Apps
  The Arizona senator gets feisty with CEO Tim Cook during a Senate panel's grilling of top Apple brass over the company's offshore tax avoidance practices.
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• Coolpad's Stock Android Smartphones Target T-Mobile, Sprint
  Now the world's tenth-largest smartphone maker, Coolpad aims to make waves here.
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• Sprint Takes On the Check-Cashers
  The Boost Mobile Wallet service acts as a virtual bank for people who can't get bank accounts.
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• Hands On With Sprint's Tri-Band Modems
  Sprint introduced three unique new high-speed modems at CTIA. We took a look.
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• AMD Hits Game Console Trifecta With Xbox One
  It's been an open secret, but now it's official --- Advanced Micro Devices is in all three eighth-generation game consoles, including Microsoft's upcoming Xbox One.
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• Dish Adds On-Demand, Social Access to iPhone, Android Apps
  The Dish Network mobile app just got a makeover, adding access to On Demand programming on Android and iOS, as well as Dish Anywhere integration with social networks.
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Marketing Charts Headlines

• How Effective Do Consumers Find Social Cues in Advertising?
  Some consumers are noticing brands’ attempts to promote their social presences in advertising, with some media channels more likely to elicit a response than others, according to [pdf] results from a Burst Media survey of more than 2,500 US online…
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• Online Teens’ Use of Twitter Grows by 50% in 1 Year
  Online teens’ use of social networking sites appears to have leveled out, but more are turning to Twitter, according to [pdf] results from a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. In 2012, 81% of online te…
  - 14 hours ago, 22 May 13, 11:02am -
• Want Social to Boost Sales? Be Prepared to Spend the Necessary Time
  The top benefits of social media marketing are increased exposure (89%) and increased traffic (75%), finds Social Media Examiner in its annual “Social Media Marketing Industry Report” [download page], which surveyed more than 3,000 marketers on t…
  - 15 hours ago, 22 May 13, 9:39am -
• Webrooming More Prevalent Than Showrooming Among Millennials
  For all the research and attention paid to showrooming, webrooming (doing research online and then buying in-store) is actually a far more popular activity among Millennials (aged 18-35) across several product categories, according to [pdf] survey re…
  - 16 hours ago, 22 May 13, 8:55am -
• Brand Influence on Purchase Decisions Increases With Income Level
  56% of consumers say price is the primary influencer of their purchase decision, making it a far more influential driver than quality (17%), brand (17%), store (7%), or loyalty program (3%), according to survey results from parago’s 3rd annual Shop…
  - 17 hours ago, 22 May 13, 8:00am -
• Most Mobile Device Owners Happy to Engage With Advertising for Free Content
  Never mind paying for it. Mobile device owners would prefer to spend time engaging with advertising in order to receive free content, whether that be a tablet (77%) or smartphone (70%) application, or even a newspaper (66%). The findings, from a stud…
  - 18 hours ago, 22 May 13, 7:06am -
• Top 10 at Domestic Film Box Office, Weekend of May 17-19, 2013
  Content in Rentrak Theatrical box office updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its Box Office Essentials theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.
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• Marketers Keep Saying They’re Going to Up Their YouTube Efforts, But Adoption Isn’t Moving
  For the third consecutive year, YouTube is the channel where most marketers plan on increasing their social media efforts, according to survey results from Social Media Examiner’s latest annual “Social Media Marketing Report” [download page].Th…
  - 2 days ago, 21 May 13, 11:59am -
• Social Followers of Local Media Exhibit Varying Patterns of Engagement
  What kind of social behaviors do local media fans exhibit on Facebook and Twitter? It depends on the medium, says TVB [pdf] in a study conducted in conjunction with Colligent, that combines Nielsen Media Research and Kantar Media data with social med…
  - 2 days ago, 21 May 13, 10:54am -
• 44% of Millennial Women “Love to Shop”
  Millennial (18-35) women are 52% more likely than their male counterparts to agree that they “love to shop” (44% vs. 29%), per results [pdf] from an Urban Land Institute (ULI) survey conducted with Lachman Associates. While young men are more lik…
  - 2 days ago, 21 May 13, 9:43am -
• Customer Satisfaction With Pay TV Services Improves Slightly, Remains Low
  Customer satisfaction with pay TV providers remains relatively low, although it has increased slightly after remaining flat for 3 consecutive years, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The index for subscription TV services…
  - 2 days ago, 21 May 13, 8:51am -
• Data-Driven Marketers Report Uptick in Q1 Spending, Revenues
  Data-driven marketing spending is on the rise, according to respondents to the Direct Marketing Association’s Quarterly Business Review covering Q1 2013. 38.7% of respondents indicated that their spending increased quarter-over-quarter, with anothe…
  - 2 days ago, 21 May 13, 8:17am -
• Branded Content Marketing Becoming A Higher Priority, With Budgets In Tow
  70% of brands and 77% of agencies have employed branded content marketing for advertising purposes in the past year, and about two-thirds of each group say that branded content marketing has become very or most important to their marketing mix, accor…
  - 3 days ago, 20 May 13, 11:45am -

• Twitter’s Users Find Its Ads Moderately Effective
  Twitter says its Promoted Tweets are working, but Twitter users may hold slightly less positive attitudes towards ads on the platform: just 1 in 10 find Twitter ads such as Promoted Tweets to be “very effective,” although another 45% find them to…
  - 3 days ago, 20 May 13, 11:11am -
• Top Digital Performers More Confident About Future Success
  Executives at large companies (more than $500 million in revenues) who rate themselves highly in terms of their capability to use data analytics, deploy applications, and operate APIs are more likely than those who rate themselves poorly in those cap…
  - 3 days ago, 20 May 13, 10:17am -
• Shoppers Favor Customized In-Store Experiences
  Two-thirds of Americans prefer to shop in a store rather than online, details Synqera in results from an online survey administered in April. That supports prior research from Ipsos, which similarly found a majority of Americans to prefer shopping in…
  - 3 days ago, 20 May 13, 8:55am -
• Ad Engagement Relatively Strong For Made-for-Web Video Content
  Made-for-web content performs just as well as repurposed TV content when it comes to ad engagement, according to research from Tremor Video. The study, named “Upfront, NewFront, Nupfront,” compared ad metrics for 5 publishers that repurpose TV co…
  - 3 days ago, 20 May 13, 8:18am -
• Radio Revenues Flat in Q1
  Americans might be listening to more radio, but radio’s advertising revenues aren’t going anywhere, at least for the time being. In Q1, total expenditures were flat, at $3.5 billion, according to [pdf] the latest revenue report from the Radio Adv…
  - 3 days ago, 20 May 13, 6:00am -
• Got Questions For Brands on Twitter? Expect A Response 38% of the Time
  Socialbakers has released its latest “Socially Devoted” figures for Q1, and the results are a mixed bag. On the one hand, the average response rate grew 6% points quarter-over-quarter to 38%, after only improving by 4% points in the preceding 6 m…
  - 6 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:07am -
• Americans Slightly More Discerning Than Others With Their Online Sharing
  Americans may not be as keen to share personal and other content online as citizens in other countries, suggests a survey from Ipsos OTX. The study asked respondents to identify how much they share online – including status updates, feelings, photo…
  - 6 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:52am -
• 3 in 10 Consumers Cut Spending, Say It’s Their New Normal
  Fewer Americans are cutting their spending when compared to prior years, but most of those who are say that this is their “new normal,” according to survey results from Gallup. Overall, 73% of Americans polled in early April said they have been s…
  - 6 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:09am -
• Americans to Spend $4.6 Billion on Graduation Gifts This Year
  Graduation season is here, and Americans will shell out $4.6 billion to reward high school and college seniors, per results from a survey conducted for the NRF by BIGinsight. Gift-givers will spend about $94 on average, or $49 per recipient, down fro…
  - 6 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:27am -
• 7 in 10 Americans Say Radio is Part of Their Daily Routine
  While a recent survey found a majority believing that in 5 years, Americans will primarily listen to streaming radio versus traditional AM/FM radio, another study, this time from Clear Channel Media and Entertainment (CCM+E), begs to differ. Accordin…
  - 7 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:10am -
• Tablet Impressions Growing Quicker Than Smartphones
  The volume of smartphone impressions on the Millennial Media platform is increasing, but not as quickly as impressions from non-phone connected devices, represented primarily by tablets, according to [download page] Millennial Media’s latest Mobile…
  - 7 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:05am -
• UK Marketers Upping the Digital Ante
  A global shift in marketing budgets from traditional to digital media has been well documented of late, and new survey results from Martini Media suggest that UK marketers are hopping aboard the digital marketing train. 95% of brand advertisers and a…
  - 7 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:00am -

MarketingVOX Headlines

• 'Enhanced Campaigns' Enhancing Google's Revenue at Expense of Performance | UK Court: Competitors' Keywords Off Limits | IP Targeting the New Cookie, (Says IP Targeter)
  Search:Google may have its cheerier case studies, but people spending big bucks on search advertising appear to be finding their costs per action going up under the new "enhanced campaigns" regime. The "enhancements" are essentially a net limiting…
  - 13 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:01pm -
• Android Tab Buyers Leave Store, Disappear | Likes Matter, but Less So on Google | Bing Answers Malware Study
  Mobile:Yet another research source points to Apple's iOS dominating adspend, with about three quarters of mobile adspend conducted through the iPhone/iPad/iPod ecosystem. Oddly, although Android tablets have been proliferating, with some firms pre…
  - 31 days ago, 22 Apr 13, 10:38am -

Wired Top Stories

• Watch Live: Hunt for Scar Left by Biggest Moon Explosion Ever Seen
  Get up close and personal with the gibbous moon in a search for the impact crater left behind by the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the lunar surface. This live show starts comes via the Slooh Space Camera and begins tonight at 6 p…
  - 5 hours ago, 22 May 13, 7:50pm -
• Tesla Pays Off All $465M in Federal Loans 9 Years Early
  Tesla haters just lost another quiver in their dwindling arsenal. The upstart electric automaker has paid off the entirety of its Department of Energy loan -- a whopping $451.8M -- and did it nine years ahead of schedule.
  - 8 hours ago, 22 May 13, 4:36pm -
• Holder: We've Droned 4 Americans, 3 by Accident. Oops.
  For the first time, the Obama administration has acknowledged killing four Americans in drone strikes -- three of whom were killed accidentally.
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 4:11pm -
• Confusion Ruled the Day at Microsoft's Xbox One Reveal Event
  Everyone was putting on a cheery face and plenty of back-slapping was going around, but there was no mistaking the feeling that the company was about to take a big gamble.
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:38pm -
• Someone Paid $36,000 for Luke Skywalker's Pants
  For most, Star Wars was about a band of rebels standing up to a totalitarian regime, but for others it was all about Luke Skywalker's pants, apparently.
  - 9 hours ago, 22 May 13, 3:29pm -
• Twitter Finally Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Secure Your Account
  Twitter just announced that it?s launched two-factor authentication for accounts.
  - 10 hours ago, 22 May 13, 2:36pm -
• Watch 3-D Printed Shotgun Slugs Blow Away Their Targets
  Everyone knows about 3-D printed guns. Now a hobbyist from Tennessee has created 3-D printed shotgun slugs. Then his friend blasted away.
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:55pm -
• Q&A: Microsoft Veep Phil Harrison Talks Xbox One, Used Games, Always-On, and More
  Wired sat down with Microsoft corporate vice president Phil Harrison to get some answers about Xbox One's still-murky feature set.
  - 11 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:42pm -
• Navy's High-Flying Spy Drone Completes Its First Flight
  This is the Navy's MQ-4C Triton, its next-generation surveillance drone. It just flew its first flight test out in California. And it wants to scan 2,000 miles of ocean at once.
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 1:21pm -
• Adorably Chubby Mini-Spider Species Discovered in China
  Tiny spiders with oversized rumps have been discovered in China. The little arachnids, each about a mm long, represent two new species of orb-weaving spider. They belong to the Mysmenidae family of orb-weavers, and were described on May 21 in the jou…
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:36pm -
• General Zod Threatens Earth's Annihilation in Latest <em>Man of Steel</em> Trailer
  With just a few weeks to go until the release of Man of Steel, Warner Bros. has unleashed an action-packed new trailer to hype their Superman summer flick.
  - 13 hours ago, 22 May 13, 11:53am -
• Zite Strives to Fill the Hole Left by Google Reader
  For those of you bemoaning the demise of Google Reader, fear not. Zite, the personalized news app, has stepped up to fill its place. At least partially.
  - 14 hours ago, 22 May 13, 11:00am -
• FBI Kills Ex-MMA Fighter Tied to Boston Bombing Suspect
  An FBI interview with an Orlando man believed to have known Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev took a deadly and unclear turn early this morning.
  - 16 hours ago, 22 May 13, 8:48am -

• How Disney and Threadless Built a 200K-Person Design Team
  Designers love creating homages to their favorite Disney characters (e.g., turning the iconic princesses into zombies and hipsters), but if they ever tried to sell those designs they would be faced with a foe scarier than Cruella de Vil ? Disney's le…
  - 16 hours ago, 22 May 13, 8:30am -
• New York Can Fight Airbnb and Uber, But the Share Economy Is Here to Stay
  Freelance innkeepers across New York City shuddered this week as a judge found that a man renting out his East Village apartment on Airbnb was violating the state's occupancy code. The decision isn't the first time that city and state laws in New Yor…
  - 16 hours ago, 22 May 13, 8:30am -
• The Funny, Occasionally Dirty, Hidden Messages in Your Favorite Games
  Many a game designer has left messages etched permanently in the data of our games, buried deep within the code and not intended to be seen by us.
  - 19 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:30am -
• This Thrift Shop Junky Wears Your Grandpa's Clothes
  Caleb Cole loves used clothing. His mom used to take him to thrift shops and yard sales long before Brooklyn hipsters and Macklemore made it cool. Over the years he's come across some amazing vintage goods and always wondered about the original owner…
  - 19 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:30am -
• BMW Guggenheim Lab Maps the Trends Shaping Our Cities
  The BMW Guggenheim Lab released today their full list of urban trends gleaned from almost six months' worth of workshops held in Mumbai, Berlin, and New York City.
  - 19 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:30am -
• Stable Streaming, But Only OK Sound
  The new Phorus speaker system provides multi-room wireless audio streaming over Wi-Fi. It uses the new Android-based Play-Fi lossless streaming protocol.
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• 4 Questions Obama's Big National Security Speech Should Answer
  Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We'll see.
  - 19 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:30am -
• The Braver, Better Movie That <em>Star Trek Into Darkness</em> Could Have Been
  By all rights, Star Trek Into Darkness should be a really good movie. The acting is superb. The core cast established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in 2009, and they've only gotten better. Unfortunately, Into Darkness is wrestling with wa…
  - 19 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:30am -
• <em>Arrested Development</em> Creator on the Future of TV and Bringing Back the Bluths
  Wired talked with Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz about how bringing the Bluths to Netflix allowed him to do things that never would have been possible on network TV.
  - 19 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:30am -
• Bitcoin ATMs: Handy Vending Machines or Money-Laundering Nightmares?
  You can think of it as an ATM for Bitcoins. For a few glorious days this past weekend, on a conference center floor in San Jose, California, the Robocoin machine dished out thousands of dollars in exchange for Bitcoins, the world's most popular digit…
  - 19 hours ago, 22 May 13, 5:30am -
• Congress Smashes Pentagon's New Den of Spies
  If the Pentagon's not careful, it's going to find its new network of spies rolled up by Congress.
  - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 6:29pm -
• Pump Up the Jams With NuForce's Mobile Music Pump
  If you're looking to maximize the volume of the tunes streaming from your mobile device, regular earbuds or over-ear headphones just won't cut it. What you need is a headphone amplifier like, say, NuForce's new Mobile Music Pump.
  - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 4:17pm -
• After Apple's Tax Grilling, It's Time for Tech to Shape Up
  Apple's senate testimony on tax avoidance shows that tech companies are being held to a higher standard. They have only themselves to blame.
  - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 4:10pm -
• Steven Spielberg Working on Live-Action <em>Halo</em> Series for Xbox
  During today's unveiling of the new Xbox One, Microsoft announced that legendary director Steven Spielberg would be working on a new live-action Halo show.
  - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 4:02pm -
• Why <em>Star Trek</em> Made San Francisco the Center of Its Futuristic Utopia
  San Francisco serves, in Star Trek?s fictional universe, as the site of Starfleet Command ? the headquarters of the good guys ? and despite all the time they spend boldly going where no one has gone before, the Enterprise and its sister ships make it…
  - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 3:57pm -
• Camera Traps Capture Rare and Beautiful Javan Leopards
  Camera traps placed in the Javan rainforest have captured striking images of beautiful and critically endangered Javan leopards.
  - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 3:32pm -
• Jean Grey Gets in Bed With Logan in New <em>Wolverine</em> Trailer
  Jean Grey shows up in the middle of the night in the latest trailer for director James Mangold's The Wolverine.
  - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 2:11pm -

CMO Headlines

• Measuring Social Media ROI: Companies Emphasize Voice Metrics
  
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• Forget ‘Showrooming’: 77% Of Mobile Retail Shoppers Buy In-Store
  
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• Marketers Should Tailor Specific Pitches To Tablet, Smartphone
  
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• MMA Proposes Mobile Video Ad Definitions
  
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• STUDY: Facebook Delivers More Social Commerce Conversions, But Pinterest Users Spend More
  
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• Preparing The Next Generation Of Chief Marketers
  
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• Slow And Steady Continued Gains For U.S. Digital Travel Sales
  
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• IWNY: Nielsen Study To Show How Tweets Boost TV Ratings
  
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• Twitter Adds Cards To Help Brands Register Emails
  
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• Samsung's 'Men Are Pigs' Ad For TVs Gets YouTube Love (And Hate)
  
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• Variety To Honor Coca-Cola Exec At Advertising Summit
  
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• Kohl's Can Be Sued Over Sale Ads, Court Says
  
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• 'It's All Good' For Hyundai In Pivoting From Mileage Issue
  
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• Why Controversies Might Be Good For Brands—Study
  
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• PayPal To Increase Marketing This Year For Offline Push
  
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ClickZ Headlines

• Jaguar Jumpstarts Multi-Channel Campaign for F-Type
  Jaguar is increasing its marketing efforts on social and mobile for the F-Type, its first "true two-seat sports car" in the North American market in about 50 years.
  - 12 hours ago, 22 May 13, 12:37pm -
• IWNY: Nielsen Study to Show How Tweets Boost TV Ratings
  Do TV-related tweets lead to a spike in a show's ratings? Nielsen and its analytics subsidiary SocialGuide believe they do.
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• Pinterest Introduces Rich Pins for Better Brand Collaboration
  Pinterest has detailed several types of pins that have added information on them, including product pins, recipe pins, and movie pins. But this move is really seen as Pinterest working better with brands who get their products pinned frequently.
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• Conde Nast Expands Digital Network With Wired Video Series
  Conde Nast Entertainment (CNE) has expanded its digital video network with the addition of Wired to its range of titles.
  - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 5:12pm -
• Sports Marketer Van Wagner Moves Into Digital Video
  Entering into a joint venture with sports video producer CineSport, will give Van Wagner Sports and Entertainment the opportunity to take a shot at the increasingly lucrative digital video arena, the company said on Friday.
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• Mobile Payments Company Payvia Acquires LA-Based Mogreet
  Mobile Payments company, Payvia, has acquired Mogreet, creating what is likely the largest mobile company in Los Angeles with nearly 150 total employees.
  - 2 days ago, 21 May 13, 8:10am -
• How Will Yahoo's Purchase of Tumblr Affect Advertisers?
  With a concrete monetization strategy for Tumblr still in the works, digital marketers will likely have a wait ahead of them before they see more advertising opportunities on the platform.
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• Top 5 Most Socially Devoted Brands on Twitter [Survey]
  Social devotion is on the rise among brands. In Q1 2013, Nike dominated the top 10 companies in the United States, thanks to avid tweeting among four different Nike handles.
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• BNP Paribas Mixes Twitter and Tennis for Latest Ad Campaign
  BNP Paribas has launched a campaign that will allow the bank's Twitter followers to help train tennis star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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• Marketo Shares Jump 57% in IPO
  Marketing automation software provider, Marketo, leaped onto the Nasdaq today with shares jumping by as much as 57 percent after the company raised $79 million in its initial public offering (IPO).
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• Google Maps Gets a Brand New Look
  Google has announced a revamping of Google Maps and it is much more than a few changes. It is a reworking of the entire Google Maps interface from the group up, designed to make Maps more intuitive for users. Advertisements also have a new look.
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• New Shopping Tool Poaches Deals for Online Checkout
  PoachIt claims it can simplify the online shopping jungle with an intelligent tool designed to find the best deals.
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• Dunkin' Donuts Hops on Twitter's Vine for Latest Campaign
  The campaign will see Dunkin' Donuts engage consumers through a Vine-based contest.
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• ABC Joins Nielsen Trial to Measure Effectiveness of Mobile Apps in Ad Campaigns
  ABC executives report that the program will help them see the overall success of their advertising efforts.
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• Jack Link's Beef Jerky Coming to a Gas Tank Near You
  Jack Link’s “Messin’ with Sasquatch” TV spots - which usually show 20-something outdoorsy types playing practical jokes on a Big Foot character - have drawn a cult following since they were introduced in 2006. Starting this week, selected con…
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• Google's Future Focuses Around More Closely Aligned Services
  Google continues to tighten up and organize various services into key focus areas at its sixth annual developer-focused conference.
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• Pandora Launches e-Business Ad Integration for Simpler Media Buying
  Pandora has revealed a new e-Business advertising technology solution that it claims will allow for frictionless planning and buying for media buyers.
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• GE Celebrates Tech and Science Discovery With Wonderground App
  GE Wonderground, a new desktop and mobile game released for the iPhone last month, is designed to inform or reintroduce consumers to the 121-year-old company’s long history in science, design and industrial technology.
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• Hanes Uses Destruction to Send Soft Message
  Yeah, Hanes undies are cuddly, but the best way to get that message across to an audience of Millennial men, the company decided, was to blow stuff up. A new video campaign from 360i says that the ComfortBlend line of crew, v-neck, brief and boxer br…
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• VIDEO: SapientNitro Pushes Digital Into Physical Places
  Chris Cobb, creative director at SapientNitro talks to ClickZ about some of the work the agency has been doing recently.
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• Old Spice Takes Over YouTube in Viral Marketing Push
  Old Spice has launched a digital video campaign that will see the company leverage YouTube to sell its latest shave gels.
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• Bing Adds Direct Facebook Interaction to Social Sidebar
  You will now be allowed to directly engage with your Facebook friends right from Bing's search results pages. The new tool will allow you to ask questions or provide comments or answers on posts that are relevant to the search.
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• Women's Health Mag Promotes Challenges via Facebook
  This week, Women's Health Magazine, in conjunction with Facebook, is seeking to harness the motivational power of social media with the launch of an online campaign timed to coincide with National Women's Health Week (May 12-18) that urges women to l…
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• Mobile Marketing on Pace to Surpass $400 Billion in U.S. by 2015
  The mobile marketing ecosystem is projected to generate more than $400 billion to the U.S. economy by 2015, representing an annual growth rate of 52.5 percent.
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• BloomReach Gives View of Content Quality
  BloomReach released a new interface on its marketing analytics dashboard that helps companies identify web pages that aren't doing a good job.
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• ComScore: E-Commerce Sales Up 13 Percent for Q1 2013
  The report found that retail e-commerce sales produced over $50 billion dollars last quarter and that e-commerce sales have seen double-digit growth for 10 consecutive quarters.
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• LinkedIn at 10: Identity Crisis?
  LinkedIn wants to become a content publishing platform. Will this transformation destroy its value to advertisers and turn it into a Facebook clone?
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• How to Protect Your Twitter Account From Hackers
  Breaches affecting Associated Press, Onion, and Sex and the City author show need for extra security measures on firms' social sites.
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• New Orleans 'Follow Your NOLA' Campaign Seeks Adventurous Travelers
  A new interactive media campaign is helping New Orleans introduce people to the city beyond the French Quarter and Mardi Gras.
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• AT&T's Cute Kids Are Back for Mother's Day
  AT&T is taking a break from phones and giving some cute love to moms for Mother's Day.
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• Study: Major Brands Cling to Instagram
  About 67 percent of Interbrand's Top 100 Brands use Instagram, according to a recent study by Simply Measured.
  - 12 days ago, 10 May 13, 1:55pm -
• YouTube Launches Paid Channels, Subscription Fees Start at $0.99 Per Month
  YouTube is launching a pilot program for a small group of partners that will offer paid channels on YouTube with subscription fees starting at $0.99 per month. Paid channels will become available to more qualifying partners in coming weeks.
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• Roadside Ads to Be Part of Integrated Campaigns
  G5 Sponsorships is offering companies the opportunity to drive brand awareness on the nation's highways.
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• 75% of Consumers Use Mobile for Personal Finances
  A recent study from mobile ad network firm Mojiva has discovered that consumers are now more willing to use their mobile devices for financial services.
  - 13 days ago, 10 May 13, 8:00am -
• AOL First Major Company to Certify Sales Staff With IAB Exam
  AOL will now require its entire sales team to pass the IAB Digital Media Sales Certification exam.
  - 13 days ago, 9 May 13, 1:42pm -
• Smartphone-Empowered Shopping Is the New Norm
  A new study about the impact of smartphone use on in-store shopping concludes that smartphones are transforming the shopping experience.
  - 14 days ago, 9 May 13, 12:13pm -
• VIDEO: An Interview With Omnicom Digital and Critical Mass
  ClickZ speaks to Jonathan Nelson, chief executive of Omnicom Digital, and Dianne Wilkins, chief executive of Canadian- based ad agency, Critical Mass.
  - 14 days ago, 9 May 13, 8:00am -
• Yahoo Attempts to Exit Microsoft Search Deal for Google Partnership
  Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer rumored to be trying to end 10-year partnership.
  - 14 days ago, 8 May 13, 3:47pm -
• Facebook Appoints EMEA Chief Nicola Mendelsohn to Replace Joanna Shields
  Mendelsohn is likely to take up her role with the social networking giant in mid-June.
  - 14 days ago, 8 May 13, 3:37pm -

AdExchanger Headlines

• Digital Media Summit Ends With Mozilla And IAB On-Stage Debate
  Today, LUMA Partners gathered together ad tech executives near and far for its annual Digital Media Summit during New York City's Internet Week.  The agenda featured a content-rich day of discussions on the corporate development and strategy side of…
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• How To Transcend 'Above-The-Line' And 'Below-The-Line' Thinking
  “Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Greg Corso, Vice President of Media Solutions at dunnhumbyUSA.  In Dr. Seuss’ The B…
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• Programmatic Out-Of-Home; Twitter Lead Gen
  Here's today's AdExchanger.com news round-up... Want it by email? Sign-up here. Programmatic Out-Of-Home Signs on sticks – can you buy them programmatically? Xaxis thinks so. The WPP trading desk is adding out-of-home buys courtesy of sister compan…
  - 2 hours ago, 22 May 13, 11:03pm -
• Google Expands 'Display Benchmarks' As It Reaches For More Branding Business
  Google is giving advertisers and agencies up-to-the-month access to its industry performance benchmarks for display advertising. Called Display Benchmarks, the tool presents aggregated ad performance data that can be filtered according to variables…
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• Opera Mediaworks Launches Connected TV Ad Network
  Moving beyond smartphones and tablets, Opera Mediaworks introduced AdMarvel, an ad network for internet-connected TVs that brings together an ad exchange, ad serving and ad management functionalities. "A connected TV looks a lot like a tablet compute…
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• Social Referrals Lag In Driving Conversions, But Pinterest Shows Life
  Email and search continue to drive the most referrals to ecommerce sites, according to Q1 2013 data from website optimization company Monetate. But word-of-mouth through social media does influence purchases, despite a lack of last-click attribution…
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• IP Targeting May Replace The Cookie, Says AcquireWeb
  AcquireWeb is not a new, bootstrapped startup – but it could be labeled an evolved one with a new home in display advertising. CEO Al Gadbut describes his 27-person company, launched in 2001, as “a marketing data technology company focusing on c…
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• How Limited Is Mobile Exchange Inventory?
  Mobile advertising grows more enticing as consumers become attached to their smartphones and tablets. Assessing the value of mobile ad inventory against traditional display inventory can be confusing, however. AdExchanger went straight to the experts…
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• Don't Walk Into Walls: Finding The Real Value Of Mobile Location Data
  “Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Krishna Subramanian, Chief Marketing Officer at Velti. When considering location data,…
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• Elementary, My Dear Watson; Hashtag Exchange
  Here's today's AdExchanger.com news round-up... Want it by email? Sign-up here. Elementary, My Dear Watson From yesterday’s Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, supercomputer “Watson” is apparently coming to marketing in a mu…
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