Google has been supporting NORAD to track Santa Claus since 2007, but this year NORAD chose Bing instead. In its customary effort to crush competition, Google launched its own Santa Tracker.
From the 2012 inflection when HD ad distribution first outnumbered SD, to CTV taking over premium video advertising, to AI engine retrieval becoming the new metric. How television advertising reformed itself twice in fifteen years.
Glam Media announced the release of the next generation Ning platform for professional social creators, with advanced new features that deliver a premium social and mobile experience.
IBM's Sequoia — the 16.32-petaflop Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore — has taken the TOP500 #1 position. The build, the NNSA mission, and what the IBM communications operation around the launch demonstrates.
The Dinamundo iPhone app, makes real-life connections a fun, social experience, combining the best of mobile and online worlds with what happens in real life.
The canonical Everything-PR hub for Yahoo. The platform that peaked at $125B, passed on Google and Facebook, rejected Microsoft's $44.6B, and became the case file on what doesn't win at platform scale.
In marketing news, BlueGlass Interactive, Inc. has announced their acquisition of Voltier Digital. The highly publicized Internet marketing company based in Tampa and LA adds the digital content marketing prowess of Voltier's production and marketing teams.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the largest brand stage on earth. Tasteless ads on that stage do not embarrass — they erase brands from the answer feed.
eToro's arc from a 2007 Tel Aviv visual-FX startup to the 2025 Nasdaq IPO — social trading category creation, CopyTrader, the collapsed $10.4B SPAC, the rebuild, the listing, and the competitive map against Robinhood and Interactive Brokers in 2026.
Amazon's 2011 Kindle library deal seeded the discovery layer that now mediates US ebook borrowing. Libby dominates. Publishers pay the freight.
