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Obama finally names CTO, Google aims for TV, and Techcrunch, heal thyself
Oracle Corporation announced today an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems for $9.50 per share in cash, or about $7.4 billion total. The deal comes after IBM-Sun talks fell apart. (WSJ) Google’s search robot will finally be crawling its way to your TV. (TeeVee) Eyeing diners, restaurants take to Twitter. (Reuters) Techcrunch says bloggers [...] more...
The economic challenge
DM CONFIDENTIAL — President Obama has not quite held office for two months, yet judging by the political wrangling it would seem as though he either has been in office much longer or didn’t win with nearly as much support as he did. In politics as in criminal investigations, money [...] more...
Google and the Obama Administration
ADOTAS — Kevin M. Ryan chief marketing officer at WebVisible, has written an open letter to the president, noting the tightening relationship between the dominant Internet company and the government, and how that will hurt, not promote, the web ecosystem. Here are some excerpts: “I thought we were moving past paying [...] more...
Barack Obama’s Mobile Success
ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — In the lead up to today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, much has been made of his embrace of technology, perhaps more so than any incoming president in the modern political era. His campaign fully utilized the Internet for fund raising, [...] more...
MSNBC clipping Obama speech
ADOTAS — MSNBC.com will make it easier for you to search and clip the video of President Barack Obama’s inaugural speech. Others do it, but news video has been slow in utilizing the technique. The site’s video player will let you search the transcript of a video to locate a specific [...] more...
Obama stimulus helps the tech industry
ADOTAS — The $825 billion stimulus package unveiled today includes money for the digital-television transition, health information tech and broadband. The Democrat-sponsored plan gives $650 million to digital-television transfers, which apparently was going broke, and includes $20 billion in proposed spending for health information technology. The proposal also includes $6 billion [...] more...
Broadband Users Rise
ADOTAS — The Obama broadband revolution has already begun, and he hasn’t even take office yet. The top 20 cable and telephone providers in the US signed up 1.3 million new high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter of 2008, according to the Leichtman Research Group. Cable companies have 36.5 million [...] more...
E-Government and ROI
ADOTAS — And in our last in a series of predictions for 2009, John Mahler, of Greater Than One, gazes into the future: “(This) will be a year of continued fragmentation in the digital space. Technologies will provide consumers with increased control over the content they receive and force marketers to [...] more...
Obama Buys First Video Game Campaign Ads
Barack Obama, flush with cash and ramping up his advertising in the final weeks before the November 4 election, is making U.S. political history by placing the first presidential campaign ads in online video games. The Democratic Illinois senator is using the Internet ads, featured in 18 games through Microsoft Corp’s [...] more...
John, Barack, Joe and Sarah … Marketing Prophets
ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — Since Bill Clinton went from being a pot smoking, draft dodging, womanizing governor of a small state beginning with the letter ‘A’ to becoming the 42nd president of the United States, I have been a believer in and a follower of political marketing. If you think of [...] more...
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AdBidCentral’s CEO, Vivek Veeraraghavan Talks Openly*What was the inspiration to start AdBidCentral? The conditions that inspired AdBidCentral came from a variety of factors in my personal [...] more...
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