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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “venturebeat”

• Serious Business looks for life beyond Friends For Sale!

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Friends For Sale! , the game where people can “buy” other people as if they are pets, has had tremendous staying power as a popular app on Facebook . Launched in November 2007, the social game has attracted more than 25 million registered users, and more than a million people still use it every day. But the ...
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• My first article in VentureBeat

  
  Webmetricsguru - Web Metrics - Social Media Metrics - PR Metrics — Authority: 492
  My first article in VentureBeat just appeared this morning (or last night) – it’s on BrightRoll , the third party online video advertising network .  There’s another article on Google Chrome OS coming out soon, as well. Enjoy (I am) and let me know your thoughts  on BrightRoll says video ad profits ...
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• BrightRoll says video ad profits are soaring

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Video ad network BrightRoll is seeing rapid revenue growth, according to third quarter financial numbers it just released. “Online video advertising is growing fast enough to make up for most of the fallout in display, email and other online businesses,” said chief executive Tod Sacerdoti. Additionally, campaign ...
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• Black Friday e-commerce spending rose 11 percent, comScore says

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Black Friday online spending rose 11 percent in the U.S. to $595 million, according to market researcher comScore . The e-commerce spending figure compares to $534 million spent on Black Friday a year ago. On Thanksgiving day, online spending was $310 million, up 10 percent from $288 million a year ago. And in the ...
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• Amazon.com edges out Walmart on Black Friday online traffic

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  While Walmart dominated Thanksgiving Day online traffic, Amazon.com saw the most traffic on Black Friday, which is the traditional beginning of the holiday sales season. Experian Hitwise reported that Amazon was the top-visited retail web site among the top 500 retail sites. Overall traffic to retail web sites ...
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• And the best interactive outdoor holiday campaign goes to … Zozzy TV?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Interactive outdoor display advertising has become a hot holiday trend, with Google displaying voice search results on a massive screen in Times Square . Across town at Saks Fifth Avenue, Microsoft sponsored a display to promote Windows 7, which Mac fans tried to hijack . But bootstrapped Dublin startup ...
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• Walmart won the Thanksgiving Day online shopping battle

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  For the fifth year in a row, Walmart saw the most online traffic on Thanksgiving day, according to market researcher Experian Hitwise . Walmart had 14.97 percent of of the traffic among the top 500 most-visited retail web sites on Thursday, up 9 percent from 13.72 percent a year ago. Amazon.com was second with ...
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• Week in review: Modern Warfare 2 smashes records, Facebook co-founder’s Asana raises $9M

  
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• Modern Warfare 2 smashes records, Facebook co-founder’s Asana raises $9M (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Bookmark this categoryHere’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. (It’s a little shorter than normal due to the Thanksgiving holiday.) First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smashes industry records — The latest in a parade of ...
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• Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Business before health and what to do if you’re hacked

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner. Sacrifice your health for your startup – You’ve heard about the importance of a work/life balance, but if you’re an entrepreneur, those rules often don’t apply. Start-ups are demanding beasts, notes angel investor Jason Cohen, and if ...
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• Downey, Calif. says yes to Tesla Model S Plant

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Downey, Calif. is one step closer to becoming home to Tesla Motors ‘ pricey new assembly plant. The City Council voted earlier this week to approve a memorandum of understanding with the Industrial Realty Group, the company that manages the 80-acre tract of land that Tesla is considering. Currently used by a ...
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• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 smashes industry records

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  The latest in a parade of hits, Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold an estimated $550 million in the first five days of its release, bringing the entire The Call of Duty series $3 billion in sales between its six titles. Modern Warfare 2 officially smashed opening-day sales records with 4.7 ...
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• Twitter Japan’s new monetization plan: Premium content

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Twitter Japan will start allowing “premium” tweeters to charge readers a fee, said an executive at Twitter’s Japanese partner. The announcement comes from Kenichi Sughi, an executive at Digital Garage, whose remarks at the Mobidec 2009 conference were reported by local news sources and then summarized by Media ...
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• What are Google’s real motivations behind Chrome OS?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Chrome OS is Google’s latest entry into the consumer space. It is designed to be an operating system that runs on customized hardware and provides the user with only a state-of-the art browser running  HTML-5 and some plugins. The tech (and mainstream) media has seen no shortage of opinions about its meaning and ...
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• Our top 10 gift ideas: Last year’s gadgets are now worth the price

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Sometimes the newest gadgets are too far out on the bleeding edge. They don’t work out of the box, and they have a few too many bugs in their initial versions. They’re also usually too expensive. But the following list of 10 cool gift ideas focuses on products or services that have been around for a while. The ...
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• Augmented reality to be a $732 million market by 2014?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Hype around augmented reality, a technology that can superimpose graphics or information over the real world in your phone’s viewfinder, is at a fever pitch. But can it deliver the revenues? Around two dozen applications like Layar, Junaio and Wikitude have burst onto iPhone and Android devices as ...
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• 5 o’clock roundup: Mac fans try to hijack Windows, Emblaze unveils First Else smartphone

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Here’s the latest action: Mac fans try to hijack Microsoft window display — In a holiday-themed promotional effort, Microsoft set up Windows 7 displays in Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, displaying messages from Twitter with the hashtag “#holidaywindows.” Hoping to hijack the display, mischievous Apple fans ...
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• The New York Times reports off Facebook photos for the front page

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  Ah, the sweet state of journalism today.Tweets and Facebook are infiltrating the hallowed reporting of the Gray Lady, as a Facebook photo made the front-page of the newspaper’s Web site today. Admittedly, the report raises rather serious questions about the safety of U.S. President Barack Obama. The story is about a ...
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• The New York Times reports off Facebook photos for the front page

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  Ah, the sweet state of journalism today. Tweets and Facebook are infiltrating the hallowed reporting of the Gray Lady , as a Facebook photo made the front-page of the newspaper’s Web site today. Admittedly, the report raises rather serious questions about the safety of U.S. President Barack Obama. The story is ...
  4 days ago

• Fast-growing sync service Dropbox reveals $6M of new-ish funding

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 779
  It has been a good few months for Dropbox , a startup that that backs up and synchronizes your files — after crossing the 1 million user mark seven months ago, its audience has now tripled to 3 million. While publicizing those growth numbers, the San Francisco company also revealed that it has raised $6 million in ...
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