Stepping up its mobile social app game, AOL is buying a startup that specializes in exactly that. AOL is investing to scale Kanvas Labs and its various products. The deal … Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley

For more than five years, venture capital-backed "Business Insider" has been disrupting the business news publishing business. Now it wants to disrupt the way business news publications sell to Madison … Read the full story by Joe Mandese

John Buffone, executive director of NPD's Connected Intelligence service, tells "Marketing Daily": "When you reach 46 million [households], networks and programs have a reason to release their programming over-the-top." Read the full story by Aaron Baar

In a move that emphasizes the importance of natural language and voice to the future of search on mobile and desktop, SoundHound began allowing some users to test an application … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

Late last week MediaPost Editor-in-Chief Joe Mandese took part in a viewability chat -- aptly named #viewabilitychat -- on Twitter. The chat featured questions asked by Varick Media Management, with … Read the full story by Tyler Loechner

Yandex.Direct, Yandex's pay-per-click advertising platform, has altered its auction advertising model to launch a new ranking method for paid-search results. Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

Having recently acquired itself, "The Economist" is well positioned for life as an independent publication judging by its fast-growing digital circulation, which offers a model for other magazines hoping to … Read the full story by Erik Sass