CBS Creates ‘EyeLab’ To Woo Web Surfers
Wall Street Journal - CBS Corp. thinks Web surfers would rather watch a blooper reel from the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” than an actual episode of the show. To cater to what it believes is the short attention span of online audiences, the network today is launching
A Separatist Revolution Percolates in Belgium
Washington Post - This week, a former Flemish journalist attempting to raise international awareness of his dysfunctional country’s plight, listed “Belgium, a kingdom in three parts,” for sale on the auction Web site eBay . He noted, however, that the purchase included
Photo of NFL Great Jerry Rice at the Safeway Celebrity Softball
MSN MoneyCentral - September 8, 2007 8:55 PM ET Photo of NFL Great Jerry Rice at the Safeway Celebrity Softball Fundraiser is Available on Business Wire’s Web Site and AP PhotoExpress
Gold Falls, Narrowing Weekly Gain, on Dollar; Silver Advances
Bloomberg - Swiss bullion holdings fell to 30.94 billion Swiss francs ($25.75 billion) in August, from 31.8 billion francs a month earlier, according to figures on the Web site of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office in Neuchatel. “It looks like they
Guy Carpenter Establishes Project Team Dedicated to Cargo Accumulation
MSN MoneyCentral - The report also examines how this new cargo modeling approach can be enhanced by other Guy Carpenter tools such as i-aXs(TM), its web-enabled data management platform. Integrating Guy Carpenter’s cargo modeling methodology with i-aXs(TM) offers
Google’s Newest Role: Venture Capitalist
BusinessWeek - Just as it has done to companies in the software, publishing, and advertising industries, Google is becoming a thorn in the side of venture capitalists. The owner of the world’s largest Web search engine is scooping up young tech outfits for a
New semitransparent ads click with YouTube users
Seattle Times - Eileen Naughton, Google’s director of media platforms, said between five and 10 times as many people are checking out the in-video ads compared with the number who view regular display ads banners or boxes on Web pages. Advertisers who have tried