• Capital One Sponsors Biz Travel Group On LinkedIn
    LinkedIn has launched a new sponsored group aimed at business travelers—a natural fit for the professional networking site. Sponsored by Capital One, Jet: The Business Travelers Network will include relevant articles, Q&As, profiles of industry experts and weekly polls. All content will be curated and managed by a dedicated editorial staff for the group. After testing the group last month, LinkedIn said it’s gotten positive feedback on topics such as improving your odds for airline upgrades and discussion about the most stressful airports in America. Capital One branding and advertising is featured on the Jet site, including a “Powered by” …
  • President's Second Inauguration: TV viewing down
    The TV audience for President Obama's second inauguration was well down from his first -- mostly expected. Nielsen says 20.6 million viewers tuned in on Monday collectively for all networks -- down from the 37.8 million four years ago. Still, this was more than George W. Bush's second term celebration which came in at 15.5 million in 2004. Only one President's second inauguration did better than the first -- President Richard Nixon's …
  • Outcast Beefs Up Sales Team
    Digital out-of-home video network operator Outcast Media is beefing up its sales organization with three key hires: Eric Davies, Senior Director of Sales, Detroit (formerly of CBS Interactive); Wes Waterston, Director of Sales, Central Region (formerly of Bluefin Labs); and Kim Lane, Director of Sales, West Region (formerly of Rocket Fuel and Edmunds.com).
  • MLB At Bat On Board With BlackBerry 10
    MLB.com’s At Bat app, one of the biggest brands when it comes to paid apps, will be ready to go on BlackBerry 10 when Opening Day roll around. Major League Baseball Advanced Media said today that the top-selling sports app will be available on latest version of BlackBerry’s platform, which set to launch next week "BlackBerry has been an important platform for delivering content to baseball fans for many years and we are excited to continue that relationship by developing At Bat for BlackBerry 10 in 2013," said Adam Ritter, SVP, Wireless, MLBAM, in a statement. The league has …
  • Gardner Takes A Turn
    Ubiquitous comms guy Jonathan Gardner heads over to cloud-based marketing firm Turn
  • Fox's "The Following" gets a following
      After a rough fall, Fox got some good mid-season good news.   Its new serial-killer drama "The Following" grabbed the second best drama opening ratings this year --  a Nielsen 3.2 rating/7 share among 18-49 viewers on Monday night at 9 p.m. NBC's "Revolution" had the biggest opening rating results this year for …
  • Google: Quick Look At Q4 2012 Revenue Numbers
    Google reported that revenue rose 36% to $14.42 billion in the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2012, compared with the year-ago quarter. Consistent with GAAP reporting principals, total acquisition costs (TAC) came to $3.08 billion or 25% of advertising revenue.
  • AT&T To Buy Alltel Assets For $780M
    AT&T may not have gotten T-Mobile USA but it’s still after more spectrum. The company on Tuesday announced plans to acquire the U.S. retail operations of a carrier called Atlantic Tele-Network (ATNI) for $780 million. Under the deal, AT&T would get wireless spectrum licenses, network assets and 585,000 customers in rural areas of six states-- Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Ohio and Idaho. ATNI operates under the Alltel name in the U.S. through a subsidiary called Allied Wireless. The majority of Alltel’s assets and subscribers were bought by Verizon in 2009. AT&T was reported to be interested in …
  • Verizon Loss Widens In Q4 On Sandy Expenses
    Despite a record 9.8 million smartphone activations, including 6.2 million iPhones, Verizon reported a loss of $4.22 billion, or $1.48 a share, in the fourth quarter because of costs related to Superstorm Sandy and pension expenses.That's double a year-earlier loss of $2 billion, or 71 cents a share. On an adjusted basis, the carrier earned 38 cents a share. Revenue increased 5.7% to $30 billion. Wall Street analysts expected Verizon to post earnings of 52 cents a share on  revenue of $29.75. The nation’s largest carrier added 2.1 million contract subscribers in Q4 and 5 million in 2012, the …
  • Obama Appoints Google Vint Cerf To National Science Board
    U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Google evangelist Vinton G. Cerf to the National Science Board, National Science Foundation. The 25-member board serves as an independent body of advisers to both the President and the Congress on policy matters related to science and engineering and education in science and engineering.
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