Xbox 360 Fall Update includes social networking features  —  The Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update will be upon us on December 4, and Microsoft has started releasing details about what we can expect from the patch.  Since Xbox Live has always been about the social experience of online play …

Source:   Opposable Thumbs
Author:   Ben […]

Intuit to Acquire Homestead Technologies  —  Expanding Small Business Offerings to Include Web Site Creation and E-commerce Solutions  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Homestead Technologies Inc. …

Source:   Business Wire
Link:   http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index…

Digg Blocked For “Bandwidth Theft”  —  It’s hard to find anybody to agree with the logic, and certainly the only people that appear to be writing about it have done so to heap ridicule and scorn, but (apparently) the same person to bring us WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com has now introduced WhyDiggIsBlocked.com.

Source:   WebProNews - Breaking eBusiness News
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News Corp builds online ad network  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp’s (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Internet division plans to launch an online network to sell advertising across Rupert Murdoch’s sprawling empire and even to other media companies as early as the first half of next year.

Source:   Reuters
Author:   Kenneth Li
Link:   http://www.reuters.com/article…

MySpace plans Facebook-style news feeds  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp’s popular online social network, MySpace, plans to launch Facebook-style “news feeds” in the next 30 to 45 days, Fox Interactive Media President Peter Levinsohn said on Monday.  —  News feeds, which alert a user …

Source:   Reuters
Link:   http://www.reuters.com/article…

Black Friday Sees $531 Million in Online Retail Spending, Up 22 Percent versus Last Year  —  Cyber Monday Expected to Surpass $700 Million in Online Spending, Making it Heaviest Online Spending Day on Record  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …

Source:   comScore
Link:   http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1914

YouTube Has Innovative Overlay Ads from Adobe….and Beet.TV is in the Plan  —  YouTube, which recently introduced overlay advertising on the video clips of a limited number of select content publishers, including Ford Models and Beet.TV, is part of the big Adobe ad campaign media buy.

Source:   Beet.TV
Author:   Andy Plesser
Link:   http://www.beet.tv/2007/11/youtube-has-inn.html

Apple stores having ‘gravitational pull’ on mall shoppers - report  —  Analysts for investment bank Piper Jaffray spent six hours this past weekend monitoring traffic at mall-based Apple retail stores and found that the shops exerted a gravitational pull on shoppers who came within 25 feet of the entranceways.

Source:   AppleInsider
Author:   Katie Marsal
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ABC News reaching out to Facebook users?  Good luck, guys  —  Hey, Facebook users: Put down those virtual hamburgers.  It’s time to talk politics.  —  The New York Times reported Monday that Facebook and ABC News are close to announcing an agreement to collaborate on political coverage.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Caroline McCarthy
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9823027-36.html

Web Ad Action Surprises Nets  —  Advertising time in full episodes streamed online was a hot property during the upfront, ad buyers said, but some networks appear to have underestimated how many people log on to watch them.  And once the networks streamed the number of spots they promised advertisers …

Source:   TVWeek.com
Author:   Jon […]