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Twitter launched their first ad service today called Promoted Tweets.  Twitter is starting with a few ad partners; Best Buy, Bravo, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Starbucks, and Virgin America. Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations want to highlight to a wider group of users.  Visitors to Twitter.com will see Tweets promoted by [...]

Yahoo and Microsoft announced today that they are joining forces with their advertising networks in order to better compete with Google. Yahoo and Microsoft’s BING, along with their combined networks of search partners, are due to come out with their combined search ad network prior to the big Christmas advertising rush in late 2010. “Up [...]

Wow, it’s amazing what smart phones are capable of doing with the right applications plugged in. This is likely why phone books have experienced a huge growth, even during a major (and extended) recession. According to market research firm IDC, vendors shipped 54.5 million smartphone devices in the fourth quarter of 2009, an increase of [...]

This year, two of the largest phone book publishers went bankrupt. Now they’re planning on coming back with new online publishing goals. Idearc and R.H. Donnelley both went under earlier this year with billions of dollars in debt. If someone tells you that printed phone books are still important, then just quote Scott Klein, Chief [...]

New article on WebVisible Data is available revealing the top local searches of Q3 2009.