News Corp has issued a warning to MySpace to shore up the continued losses from the social networking site. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp purchased MySpace in 2005 and it was seen as a huge investment opportunity because of the rise of social networking sites. However, MySpace has not turned out to be such an investment [...]
For the first time, Google is now carrying paid ads belonging to another Network. Twitter’s promoted Tweets was recently integrated into Google’s Realtime search. The news, first carried by Search Engine Land was described as a coup for twitter. Last year, google had paid a rumored $15 million to show tweets in Google search. This time [...]
Following after the Promoted Tweets which Twitter launched in April, Twitter began to test syndication of Promoted Tweets in user timelines. The plan is to extend this to Twitter partners though the initial testing is being done with HootSuite. According to Twitter, the aim is to display Promoted Tweets in a way which will [...]
In a recent move, Electronic Arts (EA), entered into a 5 year agreement with Facebook. Under the agreement, Facebook credits will be the exclusive payment method to be used for all EA games that are on Facebook. EA will receive as part of the agreement, a 70 percent revenue share for Facebook Credit. This [...]
Facebook is testing a new platform, “Facebook Deals” which is a reward system for its Facebook Places. Facebook Places was launched in August 2010 and is an uncomplicated location based service that allows users to check their friends into a place. This gives more publicity in the news feed, to the place the users check [...]
