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Paltalk partners with Radio America to air popular syndicated programming

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paltalk.pngPaltalk is teaming with Radio America to broadcast its programs 24/7 on Paltalk’s interactive chat community. Radio America’s programming is heard on over 500 radio stations across the country and on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio.

Radio America is currently broadcasting the audio feed from its live shows including: The Michael Reagan Show, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, Doug Stephans Good Day, The Greg Knapp Experience, Car and Driver Radio, Road and Track Speed Radio, Talkin’ Baseball, The Garden Rebel and The Dr. Bob Martin Show among others to Paltalk’s chat community, allowing users to listen to live programs while participating in text and video chat with other Paltalk listeners. By logging on to Paltalk.com, viewers can also interact with the many Radio America hosts and guests via real-time audio and video chat.

Originally posted on April 21, 2008 @ 9:21 am

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Yodle forms alliance with Google

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Yodle, Inc. has formed a strategic agreement with Google to become an authorized reseller of Google’s AdWords advertising program. As a Google AdWords Authorized Reseller, the Yodle sales force is equipped to help local businesses efficiently tap into the power and reach of the Google AdWords online advertising platform.

Yodle makes it simple and easy for local service-oriented small businesses to find new customers by promoting them on the major search engines and a network of local sites. Yodle boasts years of experience providing high-quality customer service and measurable results for small business advertisers. Yodle will continue to offer its thousands of local customers around the country full-service AdWords account management on their behalf – from account setup and activation, to ongoing campaign maintenance and optimization.

Originally posted on April 21, 2008 @ 5:53 am

WPP Digital takes stake in HDT Holdings Technologies Inc. of China

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WPP’s investment arm, WPP Digital, has acquired a minority stake in HDT Holdings Technologies Inc., a rich media advertising and technology company. HDT was founded in 1999 and has offices in Shanghai, Beijing and GuangZhou, employing over 270 people.

HDT has a broad product portfolio, including iCast, a rich media ad-serving product with distribution agreements with all major portal and vertical sites in China; iStreaming, a video ad-serving product which has distribution agreements with all major video sites in China; iFocus, a contextual targeting advertising product; and T2C, an advertising network with over 200,000 sites delivering 150m page views per day.

WPP joins existing investors CA-JAIC China Internet Fund, Cheng Wei Ventures, Manitou Ventures and Sequoia.

Originally posted on April 21, 2008 @ 9:54 pm

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Sony to acquire Gracenote for $260 million

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gracenote.pngSony Corp. of America has agreed to buy digital media identification company Gracenote, Inc. for about $260 million plus other contingent consideration.

Formerly known as CDDB, Gracenote delivers a substantially improved consumer experience in digital media devices and applications, plus media monitoring and other data services to the recording industry.

Gracenote will become a wholly owned Sony subsidiary but its existing business will continue to operate separately. Gracenote’s management team will remain with the company.

The deal is expected to close in late May.

Originally posted on April 20, 2008 @ 9:47 pm

BigCarrot.com launches website for inducement prizes

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BigCarrot launched its website that enables anyone to create, contribute to and participate in inducement prizes. Founded on the principle that people with common interests can come together and pool their contributions to create an inducement prize, BigCarrot is leading the way for consumers and organizations alike to utilize these incentives and resources to help facilitate innovation and change.

BigCarrot uses a concept called “crowdsourcing” to allow anyone to create and fund an inducement prize. Prize categories include: computers, electronics, environment, mathematics, household, medicine, science, society and sports. Anyone can start a prize—from large social issues to smaller personal pursuits—and anyone with the ability to claim the prize can submit a solution.

To initiate a prize, the user simply clicks on the “Start a Prize” button on the home page and drafts the rules for the proposal. Next, the BigCarrot community helps revise and improve on the prize rules. Once the rules are defined, the prize is opened for financial contributions from the public. Finally, when someone submits a claim for the prize, all contributors get to vote on whether to award it.

Multiple participants can pursue an objective simultaneously without increasing the cost to the contributors. Although only one participant will claim the prize, the others often benefit from the increased development of the field and the attention inducement prizes typically generate.

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Originally posted on April 20, 2008 @ 2:49 pm