• search Google Search Glitches Show Service Not Infallible by Laurie Sullivan

    Marketers expect searches on Google sites to go off without a hitch, but a couple of queries using the keyword "Google" on Google News left the results page blank. On any ordinary day that search would return more than 387 million results. ...Read the whole story

  • Digital Marketing Driving M&A Market, WPP Top Suitor by Joe Mandese

    Questions may loom about the underlying health of the media economy, but at least one facet is experiencing exceptional growth - mergers and acquisitions - especially for marketing services related businesses. In a week in which Publicis announced the acquisition of BBH and its affiliates, and only a couple of weeks after WPP acquired AKQA, investment bank Berkery Noyes has released a mid-year report on the media and marketing industry's M&A market indicating a voracious appetite for deals. ...Read the whole story

  • Google, Yahoo Sued For 'Intercepting' Email To Target Ads by Wendy Davis

    Yahoo and Google have been hit with separate lawsuits for allegedly violating a California privacy law by scanning emails in order to determine which ads to serve to recipients. ...Read the whole story

  • Apple Fixing Apps Crash, FairPlay DRM Software May Be Reason by Mark Walsh

    An encryption-related glitch has caused scores of iOS apps in recent days to crash launch upon launch, according to online reports. The problem was initially highlighted by Instapaper creator Marco Arment on Wednesday after learning the latest update of the Instapaper app in the App Store was crashing immediately after launch. ...Read the whole story

  • Study: Positive Signs For Daily Deal Space by Gavin O'Malley

    A new study funded by Rice University portrays a strong daily deal sector with no signs slowing down. The percentage of businesses making money jumped by about 6 percentage points in the May 2012 sample -- from 55.5% (in spring 2011) to 61.5%. ...Read the whole story

  • WFA Offers Companies Procurement Tool by Steve McClellan

    The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is offering companies a new benchmarking tool that will allow them to compare their procurement services to those provided by some of the world's leading marketers. ...Read the whole story

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