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Google’s expansion into advertising outside the virtual world received a boost Wednesday when it landed a new client: DirecTV. The deal with the satellite TV provider will add another 18.7 million households to Google TV Ads’ reach, bringing the total number of households reached by the service to 30 million.
Google’s expansion into advertising outside the virtual world received a boost Wednesday when it landed a new client: DirecTV. The deal with the satellite TV provider will add another 18.7 million households to Google TV Ads’ reach, bringing the total number of households reached by the service to 30 million.
Twitter on Wednesday launched its @earlybird service, aimed at providing its some 75 million members with daily deals and creating a revenue stream for itself. The first offering from the service was a discount on tickets to see the critically panned movie “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” from Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Whenever Apple announces a new product, the thoughts of potential first-day buyers turn to crowded showroom floors and long checkout lines. Will that be the case when the iPhone 4 goes on sale June 24? “Apple has raised the bar far enough that it’s going to generate similar excitement to what we’ve seen in the past,” Michael Gartenberg, a partner with the Altimeter Group, told MacNewsWorld.
Four out of five consumers don’t know the speed of their broadband connections. Do they care? Apparently not — but the FCC does, and it’s starting two projects to clarify how fast U.S. broadband speeds are. In a survey released Tuesday on consumer broadband experience, the FCC found that 80 percent of consumer broadband users in the United States don’t know the speed of their broadband connection
One of the most popular game providers on Facebook cut a deal Wednesday to bring its entertainment wares to Yahoo. Zynga — known for its infectious social media diversions “Farmville” and “Mafia Wars” — announced a partnership with Yahoo that will expose the gamemaker’s offerings to the aging portal’s more than 600 million users, although some of those users are also Facebook members.
One of the most popular game providers on Facebook cut a deal Wednesday to bring its entertainment wares to Yahoo. Zynga — known for its infectious social media diversions “Farmville” and “Mafia Wars” — announced a partnership with Yahoo that will expose the gamemaker’s offerings to the aging portal’s more than 600 million users, although some of those users are also Facebook members.
HTC, a manufacturer of several phones containing the Android mobile operating system, retaliated against Apple Wednesday with a complaint to a federal agency aimed at blocking further importation of iPhones, iPods and iPads into the United States. The complaint filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission claims those products infringe on five HTC patents.
Apple has stuck its nose under Google’s search tent with the purchase of a leading-edge maker of a mobile virtual personal assistant application. News of the company’s acquisition of Siri, which just launched its iPhone app in February, broke after blogger Robert Scoble revealed that the Federal Trade Commission had approved the deal by granting Apple an “early termination notice” under the Hart-Rodino Act.
When you’re as dominant in the online music market as iTunes is, it’s hard to see the chinks in its armor, but a number of alternatives have cropped up to take advantage of what some see as gaps in Apple’s service model. One door that iTunes has left open for its competitors is streaming delivery of music.
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