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Samsung Continues to Poke Fun at Apple Fans in Super Bowl Ad
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Samsung aired another of its series of Apple-mocking commercials during the 2012 Super Bowl tonight. In this ad, Samsung is pushing the new Samsung Galaxy Note. Like the previous ads in the series, Samsung depicts iPhone fans standing in line for the new iPhone, while promoting their own products as...
Pinterest's API Is Coming Soon, And VCs Are Super Excited
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Digital pinboard Pinterest is going to be releasing an API very soon, and VCs are champing at the bit to invest in startups who will build on top of it. Later today, I'm hosting a panel on investing in social commerce at our Social Commerce Summit with four venture...
Google: 41 Percent Of Super Bowl Ad-Related Searches Were Mobile
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A wide range of social and mobile data are being reported by various sources in the wake of last Sunday’s Super Bowl game. For example, ad network inMobi said 39 percent of survey respondents “used their mobile device in response to a TV commercial during the game” (discussing... Please visit...
The most popular brands on Google+ are slowly becoming more consumer focused
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Since launching its Pages product for businesses last November, Google+ has tried to get mainstream brands to adopt the platform. Up until recently, the most popular brands on Google+ happened to be owned by the company itself, which wasn’t a very good sign of adoption. It looks like brands were...
Here's The Samsung Super Bowl Ad That Infuriated All The Apple Fans (AAPL)
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Here's the latest in Samsung's ads ripping Apple customers who line up for the iPhone. Somehow we're supposed to believe that people who love the iPhone would jump out line for an oversized phone with a stylus. Or, maybe we're not. It's an ad after all, not a documentary....
Samsung Galaxy Note Super Bowl ad takes more jabs at Apple
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Samsung's Galaxy Note mobile device was the star of the company's first costly NFL Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, putting a bow on a somewhat controversial media campaign that has been defined by its abject portrayal of Apple customers....
Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free
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Samsung's Super Bowl ad--for the Galaxy Note--claims that this is the product that can finally stop Apple fanboys from having to stand in line, waiting for Apple's latest....
Nielsen: Samsung ad forgotten by most Super Bowl viewers
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Samsung's Super Bowl ad for the Galaxy Note may have been one of the costliest mistakes in advertising in recent memory, based on new Nielsen data from the event. The Android phone's commercial appeared neither in the top 10 most-remembered ads of the football game nor the top 10 most-liked...
Aliens crave Earth wives in Chevy Volt Super Bowl ad
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In an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design....
Best Buy Super Bowl ad puts phone, app makers in one place
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Best Buy as part of a promo has started the run of tech-focused Super Bowl ads with a segment pitching its mobile stores. The ad unites both the inventors of phone technology, such as Philippe Kahn (the camera phone) and Ray Kurzweil (text to voice synthesis) with those making newer...
Nokia ad bashes iPhone 5 for being 'boring,' promotes Lumia 920′s colors [video]
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Samsung (005930) isn’t the only company attacking Apple’s (AAPL) new iPhone 5 for being “boring and disappointing.” Nokia (NOK) has hopped on the same bandwagon with a new online video that slams Apple fans for waiting hours in line for the iPhone 5 only to have two colors to...
Samsung's Super Bowl ad taps Galaxy Note, The Darkness
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Samsung's promised Super Bowl spot took an unusual turn on Sunday night. After showing iPhone queue waiters complaining about "missing the big game" and being "in detention," a passer-by shows a Galaxy Note. The giant Android phone's pen -- and an impromptu appearance by rock revival group The Darkness --...
Watch: Samsung Galaxy Note Super Bowl ad goes after Apple fans
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Samsung pitched another ad against its primary competitor on Sunday, showing off its Galaxy Note in a Super Bowl commercial that poked fun at Apple fans. Returning to the setting of its Galaxy S II commercial, the ad showed a Samsung user blissfully using his new phone in front of...
Chasing Shazam, SoundHound Quietly Passes 100M Users, Averaging 200K Downloads/Day
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If you’ve watched television in the last year, you may have seen a commercial or a program come on bearing a small blue icon with a black squiggle on it. That would be Shazam — the app that you’ve probably used to identify a song in the car or at...
Vizio 15.6-inch Thin + Light ultrabook review
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Vizio makes laptops? Yes, it does. This year, the TV company revealed a grand plan to shake up the Windows PC industry by creating its own computers. It began with a mysterious Super Bowl ad, but it wasn't long before the world got a glimpse of Vizio's first machines:...
YouTube Reinstates Chrysler’s Popular Super Bowl Ad
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Could a computer error have caused Chrysler’s high-profile Super Bowl ad to go mysteriously missing from YouTube? Chrysler Group’s two-minute Super Bowl spot featured Clint Eastwood trying to rally America. Chrysler Group LLC’s two-minute long spot (watch below), dubbed “Halftime in America,” featuring Clint Eastwood trying to rally America, disappeared...
USA Today Tells Facebook Its Services Are No Longer Needed For Super Bowl (FB)
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Last year, USA Today partnered with Facebook to create its Super Bowl Ad Meter, which for better or worse has become the most prominent measure of a Super Bowl ad's success. The partnership was innovative because it asked all Facebook members to vote on ads, instead of just a panel...
Apple's Siri the butt of Doritos Super Bowl ad
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In its Super Bowl spot, Doritos introduces Suzie, a cell phone personal helper with something of a temper....
Facebook and NBC partner for Olympics coverage and Timeline integration
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Facebook and NBC today announced a partnership for the upcoming London Olympics that will give the network data about what users are talking about related to the Games and includes Timeline integration for the NBC Olympics website. The companies will collaborate by directing viewers of the games to interact on Facebook...
Involver adds visual tool for producing custom Facebook apps without code
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Social marketing platform Involver today introduced a visual tool for building Facebook applications and other customizable experiences. The Visual SML is an addition to Involver’s Social Markup Language, a system that enables front-end developers to code apps more efficiently. Now with the visual tool, coding isn’t necessary. Marketers can drag...
Go Daddy hires former Microsoft and Yahoo exec Blake Irving as next CEO
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Just in time to stand behind what will undoubtedly be the most grotesque Super Bowl ad of the 2013 contest, Blake Irving is taking the top seat over at Go Daddy. The infamous, flip-flopping domain registrar has confirmed that Irving will begin duties as CEO starting January 7th of...
COCA-COLA: Internal Numbers Show Big Online Buzz Just Doesn't Work
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It turns out that having a lot of online buzz only impacts short-term sales by 0.01 percent, Coca-Cola senior manager for corporate market strategy and insight Eric Schmidt told an advertising conference Monday. According to Coke's internal measurements, "we didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales,"...
InfoSpace shares soar after big revenue boost from new TaxAct unit
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Investors are liking the new face of InfoSpace. The Bellevue company, a dot-com darling and survivor, transformed itself yet again with the $287 million purchase of online tax preparation company TaxAct earlier this year. And the addition of that unit is already adding a nice boost to InfoSpace, which Wednesday...
Samsung Tops 2 Million Galaxy Note Sales, Plans To Hit 10 Million By Year’s End
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Samsung says it has sold over 2 million Galaxy Note superphones globally. Now, it’s only fair to remember that this number includes international sales, so even though the Note only became available on February 19 here in the States, it’s been on Asian shelves since October and UK shelves since...
Philippe Kahn's First Camera Phone Set to Star in Best Buy Super Bowl Ad
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If you want to learn more about the first camera phone, the Super Bowl could be your chance. Inventor Philippe Kahn talks about it in a Best Buy ad expected to be shown around the third or fourth quarter. He shows his first photo, of his newborn daughter, and talks...
Here's the Worst Super Bowl Ad of 2012
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Maybe you’re a little bit interested in watching part of the Super Bowl on your Verizon phone. This should cure you of that: It’s the ad Verizon is using to push the service, which it’s selling for $3. I’m a Verizon subscriber, and the carrier just sent this directly to...
Samsung Galaxy Note now available for pre-order from AT&T, shipping February 17th
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AT&T announced that the Galaxy Note will be available on their network at CES 2012, and last week we learned it will launch on February 19th in-store for $299. Today, you can finally pre-order this “phablet” in both Carbon Blue and Ceramic White colors. Better yet, if you pre-order the...
Social Media Takes Fun Out Of Super Bowl Ad Surprises
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Debating an eternal question: Better to conceal or reveal? As more and more of the ad spots for this year's Super Bowl are revealed, there is growing feeling that marketers' use of social media is ruining their surprises. Last Super Bowl, just one memorable ad bucked this trend--Chrysler's offering...
DoggyLoot: 12 years after Pets.com, is now the time for online sales of pet products?
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Remember Pets.com? The online marketplace for pet food, pet toys, and everything but the pets themselves pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital in 1988, IPO’d in 2000, bought a Super Bowl ad in January of that year, and shuttered the company in November. Perhaps the company...
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