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Polyvore Should Look to Real-Time Web Data for True Value in Fashion Marketing
A new breed of shopper is showing up online–the affluent shopper. They want their offline shopping experience to be replicated online, creating a tiered interface for retailers headed to the online market. It’s creating a lot of opportunity for new, smarter marketing, with luxury budgets targeting the people that are ready and willing to part ...
HipLogic Steals MySpace Executive to the Mobile Side
Mobile app maker HipLogic has added two new executives to its lineup–Jason Ling and Stephanie Jorgl are the VP of Product Development and Head of Marketing respectively. Coming from MySpace, Jason Ling is one of the latest deserters of the still-massive social network, heading to a new position with a fresh take on the social ...
Facebook Gets No Privacy in Court: New York Ruling
A state ruling in New York emerged today, stating that content shared on Facebook, even the private stuff, can be used as evidence in a court of law. More interestingly is the disparity in rulings around the subject, as the state of California has a judge with different ideas. The Wall Street Journal breaks it ...
Google Goes Hyperlocal with Mobile Ads, Prepping its Future Market
Following up on this morning’s statement about mobile being a major part of Google’s future search revenue, the company launched hyperlocal mobile ads. They come in the form of blue map markers for local search results, based on a user’s distance from their queried service of interest. Google offers an example and explanation of the ...
Facebook and Skype, Perfect Partners Seeking Deep Integration?
Skype is expected to enter a deep integration partnership with Facebook, according to a report at All Things D. The partnership would be reflective of Skype’s intent to become as integrated as possible, building around as many points of access, through social networks, mobile apps, etc, as possible. On Facebook’s part, this level of integration ...
HP Has High Profits Planned, Despite a Missing CEO
Hewlett-Packard is hopeful towards the future, with increases expected for its 2011 revenue by as much as 7%. Interim CEO Cathie Lesjak noted HP’s position in the market during the company’s annual analyst day event this week, particularly as it pertains to the future of the tablet market and its goals for Palm, which the ...
Oracle Eyeing NetApp? Stock Spike Anticipates Acquisition.
Oracle had a lot to say during its OpenWorld conference last week, causing quite a stir in the industry. Some competitors and clients may have been dismayed by Oracle’s claims to operate as big a chunk of the enterprise cloud as possible, but many data storage companies saw a spike in shares thanks to Larry ...
AOL May Acquire 5min Video Network, Launching New Ads with Project Devil
AOL is reportedly buying online video network 5min. The estimates put the acquisition between $50 million and $65 million, which may not be the returns the video site would want after $13 million in funding over the past three years, but the price seems right for AOL, which is still in the process of re-branding ...
Mobile Users Like Touching Over Typing: Mobile Mix Report
Millennial Media has released the numbers from August’s Mobile Mix report, noting a 7% increase of Android OS shares for the U.S. mobile market. That keeps Android in the number 2 spot, though making significant gains towards Apple, which has 29% of the entire market share for Millennial Media’s mobile ad network—just 3% higher than ...
BlackBerry Gets an Accompanying Tablet, Amazon Kindle App Headed to the PlayBook
RIM demonstrated its upcoming tablet device, now known as the PlayBook, at the DevCon 2010 conference today. Anticipation around the tablet built up last week, with rising speculation around the specifics of RIM’s answer to the iPad and subsequent Android tablets. While RIM answered the major questions regarding the PlayBook, a number of the specs ...
