It took two months, but Omnicom Media Group Digital has found a new leader in Matt Spiegel, founder and CEO of Resolution Media. On April 1, Spiegel is set to fill the void created in January when Sean Finnegan left to take on the challenge of chief media officer at contextual online ad network Vibrant Media. ...Read the whole story
Faced with pressure from the Federal Communications Commission, cable company Comcast said Thursday it will end its practice of slowing traffic to peer-to-peer sites. The company said it will work with BitTorrent to develop and implement a new "protocol agnostic" system for handling Web traffic by the end of the year. ...Read the whole story
[Mobile] AT&T is offering a pair of new paid mobile music applications with mSpot that let subscribers create custom ringtones and access PC-based music collections on their phones. ...Read the whole story
[Online Publishing] Fashion and shopping e-publisher Glam Media quietly bought the street-fashion social media site StyleMob earlier this month. Last month, Glam raised another $84.6 million in financing, a portion of which it said was earmarked for acquisitions. ...Read the whole story
[Video] Cute animation and catchy songs helped explain complicated concepts like adverbs and the Constitution to an entire generation of Americans in the 1970s and 1980s. Now, MetLife is using similar tactics in a Web video to help demystify the insurance industry. ...Read the whole story
In Treatment
An editorial in this month's issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry says Internet addiction, including "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging," is a ... ...More
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