• Strong Holiday Season Buoys Yahoo by Mark Walsh

    Beleaguered Internet giant Yahoo posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday, partly as a result of stronger brand advertising revenue during the holiday season. Yahoo also announced Tuesday that it would launch a new search ranking model for the system that returns results based on quality in addition to keyword bid price. ...Read the whole story

  • SimplyHired Syndicates Job Listings by Shankar Gupta

    Job search site SimplyHired.com today will launch a service that allows Web publishers, including bloggers, to include links to job listings that are contextually relevant to the subject matter of their sites. Several major tech and business bloggers have already signed up for the service, including John Battelle, Guy Kawasaki and Jeff Jarvis. ...Read the whole story

  • SpiralFrog Adds WB Vet To Board by Wendy Davis

    Despite the sudden recent departure of CEO Robin Kent, ad-supported online music company SpiralFrog still plans to launch early this year, chairman and founder Joe Mohen said Wednesday. Kent, former CEO of Universal McCann, served as SpiralFrog's CEO from July through December, when he was ousted. ...Read the whole story

  • Broadband Enterprises Joins Video Ad-Serving Fray by Gavin O'Malley

    Broadband Enterprises is preparing to officially launch its own ad serving client, which will directly compete with services offered by DoubleClick and aQuantive's ad technology unit Atlas. ...Read the whole story

  • MySpace To Post Amber Alerts by Erik Sass

    MySpace will begin distributing information on Amber Alerts about missing children to its members, targeting the information geographically by ZIP code, the social networking giant announced Tuesday. But the move won't necessarily encourage skittish advertisers, said a Universal McCann exec. ...Read the whole story

  • MTV, Verizon Partner For Live Music Series by Shankar Gupta

    MTV is creating a new live music series, "MTV Live," which will be distributed on Verizon's V Cast, as well as MTV's own mobile, TV and broadband properties. The first episode, slated to premiere on Feb. 6, will feature a live performance by punk/emo band Fall Out Boy. ...Read the whole story

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