Google Partners with Panasonic for YouTube TV
Google is developing TVs that allow users to watch videos from YouTube and access Picasa Web Albums, an online photo-sharing service.
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Google is developing TVs that allow users to watch videos from YouTube and access Picasa Web Albums, an online photo-sharing service.
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Approximately 50 percent of U.S. consumers consider at least one sustainability factor in selecting consumer packaged goods items and choosing where to shop for those products, according to a survey conducted by Information Resources, Inc.
BzzAgent has just licensed its brand to Rogers Media, Canada’s largest media company.
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Avon Products is cutting 2,400 jobs and closing plants, and is using the savings to better compete with Cover Girl, Revlon Inc. and L’Oreal SA’s Maybelline.
Top showbiz executives in a panel at CES agreed, for the most part, that Hollywood will be focused on ad-supported streaming in the coming year.
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NBC’s remake of American Gladiators posted a 5.9 in the 18-49 demo in the first hour on Sunday night, and ratings built in the second hour, giving it the best debut for any new show this season.
Systemax Inc., parent of cataloger TigerDirect, has agreed to acquire CompUSA’s ecommerce business, brand, trademarks and as many as 16 retail outlets, writes Direct magazine.
Samsung provided a tour of its various display technologies at CES this week, saying its interactive HD screens could one day replace billboards and public signage.
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Some $29.2 billion was spent online during the 2007 holiday season, a 19 percent gain versus the same period last year, according to comScore’s final update of e-commerce holiday spending (Nov. 1 - Dec. 31), reports MarketingCharts.
In the last year, the number of HD Radio units available has more than tripled and the number of HD Radio stations has increased by more than 400, according to Robert Struble, president and CEO of iBiquity Digital.
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The Golden Globes awards dinner this Sunday will be replaced by a news conference to announce the winners.
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Starbucks plans to slow growth and close some U.S. stores, following a year which saw stock plummet 50 percent over the previous year and a decrease in traffic in domestic stores.
A far-reaching management shuffle at Conde Nast saw three top sales executives, including Mitchell Fox - group president and publishing director of the Golf Digest, Fairchild Fashion and Bridal Media groups - being ousted yesterday.
Led by the online media and marketing services sectors, M&A for the media and information industries reached record highs in 2007 with 838 transactions and nearly $110 billion in value for the year - up 32 percent and 79 percent, respectively, over 2006 levels, according to the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI), writes MarketingCharts.
