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    Ad Agency Dinosaurs

    By: Karen Webster on March 10th, 2008

    Dinosaurs ruled the earth for 160 million years before a huge impact rendered them all but extinct. They never saw it coming – one day they were the dominant species; the next, they were all but gone. Ad agencies might just end up being the dinosaurs of modern business. The impact that has created […]

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    News Flash? People Don’t Read Newspapers Anymore

    By: Karen Webster on March 10th, 2008

    The latest WeMedia/Zogby poll citing that most people use the internet for their primary source of news and information is hardly a newsflash. We’ve been reading about the newspaper industry’s demise now for a couple of years as a result of fewer people reading the paper and therefore fewer advertisers using it to reach the […]

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    iPhone SDK: Catalyzing the Mobile Ecosystem

    By: David Evans on March 10th, 2008

    Apple’s recent unveiling of a software developer kit (SDK) for its iPhone is further confirmation that this company is in serious contention to catalyze the mobile ecosystem and disrupt the operator-centric model that many believe has stymied the growth of mobile-phone based businesses in the United States and much of Europe. The SDK has […]

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    It’s Time For Amazon to Think Outside of the Unbox

    By: Karen Webster on March 10th, 2008

    A recent blog post ponders the future of Amazon’s Unbox video service given its reported inability to “make a dent in Amazon’s business.” This service, which was launched nearly 18 months ago, is a movie download service that allows movies to be downloaded right to set-top boxes (thanks to a partnership with Tivo). Recently, Amazon […]

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    Links for 3.5.08

    By: Catalyst Code on March 5th, 2008

    1. Deal Yenta: Should Verizon Buy Sprint? - WSJ Blogs
    2. Is Amazon Rethinking Its Movie Download Service? - TechCrunch
    3. News Via Old Fashioned Means Put on Dead Pool Watch - TechCrunch
    4. Google Backs Harvard Scientist’s 100,000-Genome Quest - Bloomberg
    5. Debit Cards in Use to Reach 5.2 Billion in 2012 - Global Industry Analysts
    6. Widgets: The […]

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