Inside Twitter’s Sales Machine: A Secret Guide for Advertisers (Video)
Twitter's how-to guide tells buyers how to use its new ad platform. And it tells the rest of us how Twitter's first real effort to make money is working. (Hint: It's early days....)
Was TweetDeck’s Sale a Good Deal? That Depends on Bill Gross.
TweetDeck investors are getting some cash, and a lot of equity, in their $30 million sale to UberMedia. So if Bill Gross can build a Zynga to Twitter's Facebook, they'll be in great shape. If not...
You’ve Got Labor Problems, Again! AOL’s HuffPo Gripe Seems Very Familiar.
The good news for angry HuffPo bloggers who want to get paid for their unpaid work: AOL volunteers made the same argument during Bubble 1.0 and ended up winning! The bad news: It took a lawsuit, and more than a decade, to extract the cash. (And the HuffPo writers may not have a case, anyway.)...
YouTube Lets Some of You Go Longer, Removes 15-Minute Upload Cap for "Selected Users"
YouTube users send up a staggering 35 hours of video to the site every minute. And now that number is going to get even bigger: Google's video site will start letting "selected users" go past the 15-minute time limit it had previously placed on most user uploads: "As long as it’s your original content, it’s...
Q&A Service ChaCha Raises $20 Million More
Q&A service ChaCha, which has already raised $52 million in funding, has added another $20 million. This round was led by Rho Ventures and VantagePoint, and sources familiar with the transaction insist that the money is for growth and not liquidity for early investors. ChaCha competes in a field chock-full of rivals, from Yahoo and...
Spotify Signs On EMI for U.S. Launch. At Least One More to Go…