Apple has changed the rules for its operating system to block companies that compete with Apple in mobile from collecting advertising user data. That rules change apparently excludes Google's AdMob from the iPhone and iPad platforms. Apple recently launched iAds -- a development that was cited by the FTC when it allowed Google to go ahead with the AdMob purchase. |
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Aha Mobile has partnered with TargetSpot, which will serve audio ads on Aha's mobile streaming stations and applications. |
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Venerable peer-to-peer LimeWire may be looking at the end of the road, as 13 RIAA labels have asked a judge to shut it down. Limewire has two weeks to respond to the motion. The same judge last month granted summary judgment to the labels, finding LimeWire's parent company and its founder liable for copyright infringement. |
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Metro Traffic is partnering with Dunkin' Donuts on a 25-city promotion targeted to summer travelers. The campaign features a website with free access to live traffic camera views, mobile and e-mail traffic updates, and other info, and site visitors can enter to win an "Outrun the Traffic" helicopter ride over their city. Dunkin' Donuts is also sponsoring additional radio and mobile traffic reports. |
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KFMK-FM (105.9 The River) in Austin, one of the stations spun into the Aloha Trust with the Clear Channel merger, is getting a new owner as Crista Broadcasting agrees to buy the Christian Contemporary outlet. |
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Federated Media has acquired display ad company OnSite advertising, renaming it OnDisplay Advertising and bringing in former Alpha Broadcasting GSM Mike Maloney to head the company. |
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Katz Media Group's Katz Marketing Solutions in New York promotes Brian McElroy to SVP/Director of Research as Stephanie Interbartolo and Liz Stillman are upped to VP posts. |
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Lisa McKay takes the post of station manager at Curtis Media's Country WQDR/Raleigh, moving up from PD. Middayer J.J. Herr adds APD duties. |
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Dave Ramsey winds up his run on Fox Business Network, with former CNBC Eric Bolling taking over the 8 p.m. ET hour as of June 21. |
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A new poll from Rasmussen Reports finds that 84 percent of Americans would oppose a 3 percent tax on cellphone bills to help "traditional journalism," and 74 percent are against a tax on aggregators like the Drudge Report to raise money to help put newspapers. The Federal Trade Commission floated a number of such proposals in a recent draft report on "reinventing journalism." |
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June 21: Focus on independent broadcasters, with Curtis Media Group chief Don Curtis and top CMG execs.
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