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Cisco, Dell Risk Losing Sales as Recession Fuels Gray Market (Bloomberg) Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The remnants of businesses crushed by the economic slump now sit in Liquid Technology Inc.'s warehouse by the Hudson River in New York's Chelsea district. As ad spending drops, media agencies face turmoil (Reuters via Yahoo!7 News) NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. and Europe will be hit by increasingly severe cuts in advertising spending by marketers, some of who have already begun demanding media agencies lower their fees as one way to cut budgets, according to a top executive of advertising giant Interpublic Group. Yahoo connecting Internet radio service to CBS webcasting network (Los Angeles Times) The move, coming in February, is driven by dramatically higher royalty fees for airing music online. Yahoo Inc. is plugging its Internet radio service into CBS Corp.'s webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online. Best Online Newsletter of 2009 to Be Named by Web Marketing Association (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) The Best Online Newsletter in 86 industries will be judged as part of the 2009 Internet Advertising Competition awards. Companies or agencies wishing to nominate their work for consideration may do so at http://www.iacaward.org before the deadline of January 30, 2009. Tripology Appoints Internet Marketing and Lead Gen Expert to Board of Advisors (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) Leading online travel referral service Tripology has appointed lead generation expert, Uri Silberstein, to its Board of Directors. Silberstein will assist the company with planning in the area of lead generation, utilizing his specialized experience to help the company garner high quality and high volume leads. Open Hospitality continues to achieve breakthrough Internet Search Results and Booking Revenues for Hotels (Hospitality Net) Open Hospitality continues to break ground helping develop and implement hotel Internet marketing strategies, and ultimately converting consumer interest into guest room bookings. Competition among hotels for consumer attention is a key concern as both the economy and traveler demand contract. The goal of a strong marketing program is building a fair share. Open Hospitality is achieving results ... Flowers Foods Hosts Analyst Day in New York; Reaffirms Guidance for 2008 and 2009 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) At an event hosted in New York today for financial analysts and broadcast live over the Internet, executives of Flowers Foods provided insight into the company's core strategies and reiterated previously issued guidance for 2008 and 2009. Thrift meets technology in coupon offers (Moldova.org) Chipping away at shopping expenses with coupons is becoming more mainstream and more creative with technology pushing new innovations, observers say.Luck Brand apparel, a line offered by Liz Claiborne, offers coupons with discounts that increase depending on how well visitors to its Web site play an online game, The New York Times reported Thursday.Coupons have become a staple of the Internet ... How the New York Times can fight back and win: a reprise (Online Journalism Review) The New York Times Co. -- the whole caboodle, including the esteemed flagship paper, 18 other, mostly monopoly dailies, the spunky About instructional search engine and minority ownership of the half-redeemed Boston Red Sox -- is worth less than what the company paid for just one of its properties, the Boston Globe. Yahoo teams with CBS to escape higher fees for playing music on Internet radio stations (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is plugging its Internet radio service into CBS Corp.'s webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online.
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