Search giants Google, Bing and Yahoo announced last summer a rare collaboration to support the use of microdata tagging to generate more relevant and more detailed search results.

DMNmedia, the marketing solutions group of The Dallas Morning News, Inc., has reached agreement with LocalEdgea , a Hearst Media Services Company, to resell LocalEdge's comprehensive suite of digital marketing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses in Dallas/Fort Worth.

DMNmedia created a new division, named 508 Digital, to resell LocalEdges products and services, which include: website and mobile website design and hosting, video production, search engine marketing , search engine optimization , mobile advertising including SMS marketing, email marketing and social media development, as well as easy to understand ... (more)

Roger Katz founded Friend2Friend in 2006, with a powerful conviction that the social graph of Facebook was an incredible opportunity for brands and products to ignite true "word of mouth" marketing online.

Walden Venture Capital has led an undisclosed amount of Series A financing for mobile advertising company Aarki .

Times are truly exciting. Since I co-founded Smaato back in 2005, our journey providing "Ads for Apps and Mobile Websites" has seen us grow from our original home in Hamburg, Germany, to San Francisco, California and finally to Singapore.

"Aarki has built a self-service ad platform with several innovations in creative optimization and targeting.A We are excited about their customer traction in the rapidly growing mobile advertising market and the team's commitment to creating the best experience associated with mobile advertisements" Aarki offers a performance based distribution ... (more)

Another big move for Buddy Media as it continues to build out the services it offers as part of its social media marketing business: the company has hired sales supremo Susan St.

Hair Fairies, a provider of lice removal services, has rebranded its online presence with web designer, LA Dezign, CMS provider, Adrecom, and colocation provider, Colocation America.

A new search engine optimization training class for the San Francisco Bay Area teaches attendees how to drive traffic from search engines to their website.