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The Internet: Not Just for Porn. Politics Too!

Written on
October 31st 2008
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

ADOTAS EXLUSIVE — As the presidential election process heads for home plate, we continue our examination of this historic race for the White House. (For Part 2 on ongoing series on the role of online culture, journalism, commerce, and advertising in the upcoming presidential election, go here. For Part [...] More...

American Politicians and the Internet Cash Machine

Written on
October 16th 2008
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE – This is Part 2 of an ongoing series on the role of online culture, journalism, commerce, and advertising in the upcoming presidential election. To read Part 1, go here. As we continue to investigate the influence of online culture on the upcoming presidential election, a practical consideration of [...] More...

Decision 2008, The Internet Changed Everything

Written on
October 7th 2008
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — The following article will be the first in a five-part series here at adotas.com focused on the role of online culture, journalism, commerce, and advertising in the upcoming presidential election. First, a bit of background regarding the inclusion of online media in American national politics. In 1996, when [...] More...

Adobe Hits The Streets With Interactive Ads

Written on
July 16th 2007
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

“This machine will not communicate the thoughts and the strain I am under.” - Thom York, Radiohead In the tradition of all great, emotionally complicated artists, musician Thom York captures the frustrations many have experienced in our communication age of not being able to effectively communicate via emoticons, keyboards, and txt hieroglyphics. [...] More...

Dow Jones Drag Feet All The Way To The Bank

Written on
July 10th 2007
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

According to a story in the Wall Street Journal New York print edition, a committee of Dow Jones’s board is expected to meet Tuesday with supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, who has expressed interest in teaming with Dow Jones’s union to find alternatives to the $60-a-share offer from Rupert Murdoch’s News [...] More...

The Verdict Is In: Microsoft And aQuantive Walk Down The Isle

Written on
July 9th 2007
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

The highly publicized $6 billion Microsoft purchase of online ad company aQuantive cleared an antitrust regulatory hurdle last week and moved a huge step closer to being completed. The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act requires companies proposing to merge to allow U.S. regulators up to 30 days to scrutinize the deal. Microsoft [...] More...

Google Apps Turn Software World On Its Head

Written on
July 9th 2007
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

Google has agreed to buy Postini for $625 million in cash. Postini and Google have been collaborating since February, as Google has advanced their long term initiatives with Google Apps. Postini is a Silicon Valley company that offers services to help companies protect and control their e-mail. Postini started out with [...] More...

CrackBerry Syndrome On Its Way To China

Written on
July 5th 2007
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

According to a New York Times article, the Canadian telecommunications and technology development company, Research In Motion or RIM, who is responsible for the extremely popular BlackBerry has received clearance to sell the device in China. This has been an effort of more than eight years in the making. The company [...] More...

Top Cowboy at Yahoo! Gets Bucked Off The High Horse

Written on
June 18th 2007
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

Yahoo! announced today that Terry Semel’s position as the CEO of the Internet titan will now be in the hands of Jerry Yang. Yang was an original founder of the company and currently serves as a Board Member. Susan Decker, the current EVP and Head of the Advertiser and Publisher Group, [...] More...

Advertising Industry Growth Slows, But Online Spending Continues to Grow

Written on
June 12th 2007
Author
  |   Jason Jaramillo

The ad tracking firm TNS Media Intelligence issued a downward revision to its 2007 ad forecast, calling for a modest 1.7% rise to $152.3 billion. The previous forcast issued in January had called for a growth rate of 2.6%. TNS Media Intelligence President-CEO Steven Fredericks says demand from U.S. advertisers “has [...] More...


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