Google Blows Away Expectations; Profit Up 69%
Google reported profits for the first quarter of 2007 of $1 billion, up 69 percent from the same period in 2006, reports The New York Times (via MarketingVox).
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Google reported profits for the first quarter of 2007 of $1 billion, up 69 percent from the same period in 2006, reports The New York Times (via MarketingVox).
U-verse TV and internet customers can now schedule shows to be recorded from their AT&T cell phones. The new service enhances an existing service which allows U-verse customers to remote their DVRs via their computers.
Clear Channel has agreed to sell its TV group of 56 stations and 18 digital multicasts to Providence Equity Partners for $1.2 billion. The stations will be operated by Providence’s partner, BlueStone Television.
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau has sent an open letter to the two major internet audience measurement services, comScore and Nielsen/NetRatings (NNR), requesting that they submit to a third-party audit of their measurement processes, the IAB announced today (via MarketingVox).
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Rolling Stone magazine will release a searchable DVD containing digital replicas of the magazine’s entire printed history, including every article, review and photograph as they appeared in the pages of the magazine.
Blog references to “sustainable” or “sustainability” were up 110 percent in March 2007 versus one year ago, according to a new syndicated service which measures consumer sentiment and brand health for a company around the topic of sustainability.
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As print revenue for newspapers continues to decline, the industry may be facing more bad news: online growth seems to be slowing, just at a time when newspaper executives had been hoping the pace would pick up.
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Francesa and Russo The Mike and the Mad Dog sports show is filling the slot vacated by Imus In the Morning for two weeks. The hosts were asked to do so in order to help stabilize CBS-owned WFAN - but, according to The New York Times, they’re not happy about it.
