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comScore:
Black Friday Sees $531 Million in Online Retail Spending, Up 22 Percent versus Last Year — Cyber Monday Expected to Surpass $700 Million in Online Spending, Making it Heaviest Online Spending Day on Record — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
YouTube Has Innovative Overlay Ads from Adobe....and Beet.TV is in the Plan — YouTube, which recently introduced overlay advertising on the video clips of a limited number of select content publishers, including Ford Models and Beet.TV, is part of the big Adobe ad campaign media buy.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Microsoft Plans Data Center in Siberia — Microsoft is discussing plans to build a data center in Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia. The facility will be able to hold 10,000 servers, according to Birger Steen, the head of Microsoft's Russian and CIS business unit.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple stores having 'gravitational pull' on mall shoppers - report — Analysts for investment bank Piper Jaffray spent six hours this past weekend monitoring traffic at mall-based Apple retail stores and found that the shops exerted a gravitational pull on shoppers who came within 25 feet of the entranceways.
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
News Corp builds online ad network — NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) Internet division plans to launch an online network to sell advertising across Rupert Murdoch's sprawling empire and even to other media companies as early as the first half of next year.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
ABC News reaching out to Facebook users? Good luck, guys — Hey, Facebook users: Put down those virtual hamburgers. It's time to talk politics. — The New York Times reported Monday that Facebook and ABC News are close to announcing an agreement to collaborate on political coverage.
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Marina Strauss / Globe and Mail:
Molson pulls plug on Facebook photo contest — In response to growing criticism from universities, Molson has pulled a controversial photo contest on Facebook, underlining the challenges that companies face in trying to pitch their products on new social media.
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:
Desktop Evolution: Windows and Mac OS Comparison [Desktop Comparison] — Since Windows 95 dropped more than a decade ago, our desktops have evolved to no end. Having recently had a fresh Leopard install on our Macs, we thought we would take a look back, with a side-by-side comparison of Windows and Mac operating systems.
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Give one, get one — right in the ass — So I was talking to Paul Otellini last night and he's absolutely furious about the Journal story on the OLPC train wreck which ran in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday. Gist of the story is that Nicholas Negroponte has screwed the pooch on his XO machine but somehow it's all Intel's fault.
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Associated Press:
Classmates Media Discloses Terms of IPO — Classmates Media Expects IPO to Total 12M Class a Shares and Price at $10 to $12 Each — NEW YORK (AP) — Classmates Media Corp., which operates the online social networking site Classmates.com, expects its planned initial public offering …
Jon Lafayette / TVWeek.com:
Web Ad Action Surprises Nets — Advertising time in full episodes streamed online was a hot property during the upfront, ad buyers said, but some networks appear to have underestimated how many people log on to watch them. And once the networks streamed the number of spots they promised advertisers …
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:
Digg Blocked For "Bandwidth Theft" — It's hard to find anybody to agree with the logic, and certainly the only people that appear to be writing about it have done so to heap ridicule and scorn, but (apparently) the same person to bring us WhyFirefoxIsBlocked.com has now introduced WhyDiggIsBlocked.com.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
The Engadget Interview: Ralph de la Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility — We recently got a chance to sit down with none other than long time AT&T veteran and freshly anointed CEO of the top wireless carrier in the country, Ralph de la Vega. There was almost too much to discuss …
InfoWorld:
AT&T to hike prices on dial-up — AT&T will jack up its rates for dial-up Internet access by as much as 60 percent on Dec. 1, going well above the price of faster DSL in many cases. — Customers who are now charged $9.99 per month will start paying $15.95, and the $15.95 customers …
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