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  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google is urging clients not to give up on digital ads during the recession. In a conference today in London, Google VP Nikesh Arora will note that “We are making a very explicit pitch to clients about using the internet Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A jury convicted Senator Ted “Tubes” Stevens on all seven felony counts which violated federal ethics laws. Stevens is guilty of failing to report thousands of dollars in gifts and home renovations. Stevens, who was until recently Alaska’s most prominent Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on GOOGLE and T-MOBILE unveiling the first Android enabled phone and whether or not consumers will understand the value proposition. MTV Networks has acquired social networking platform FLUX, which allows users to share and interact with content Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on how the consolidation and collapse of financial institutions is bound to hurt the Advertising business. SANDISK has rejected SAMSUNG’s offer of $5.8 billion. The cash deal was rejected on the basis that it “undervalues” SanDisk and Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on the future of Television Ad Sales and how the Wall Street Fallout doesn’t bode well for the Networks. BEST BUY will purchase NAPSTER for $121 million. The revolutionary, but now obsolete file sharing platform, never caught Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. LINKEDIN will launch the LinkedIn Audience Network today. Using LinkedIn’s profile-based targeting technology the LinkedIn Audience Network helps marketers efficiently reach specific audiences of influential and affluent professionals across hundreds of high quality brand-name publishers. ELECTRONIC ARTS (NASD: ERTS) has Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on NBC’s (NYSE: GE) high rated coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The WB (NYSE: TWX) will relaunch today as TheWB.com. The network which has been defunct since 2006 will be reborn as a digital destination fueled Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on BEST BUY (NYSE: BBY) becoming the first national retailer to sell APPLE’s (NASD: AAPL) 3G iPhone. CNN is set to double the number of journalists in domestic cities. The journalists will work from borrowed office space, Continue Reading →

I’m not sure what I expected to find here. I haven’t been to this part of China since the early 90’s. Unlike Shenzhen, which is a brand new city, Beijing has a rich history and it is very, very old. But it doesn’t feel old – every other building is under construction, there are public Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube The US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES signed the MPAA backed Anti-Piracy PRO-IP Act. The act will create a “White House level piracy czar” and is bound to have a major impact on intellectual property right laws in the US. MICROSOFT has Continue Reading →