If other companies would want to cash in on Twitter, all they need to do is take a look at what Dell does. Even Twitter may be able to get some good ideas on how to cash in on their widely popular microblog site. So far, Twitter haven’t found an ideal means to profit from their site yet while Dell has already been enjoying quite a success of using Twitter to add into their bottom line. Dell recently has r...

Advertising is slowly catching on in the mobile world. More and more ads are getting their way into mobile phones, thanks to 3G and other technologies making these devices more and more connected with everyone else. And it won’t be long until mobile ads may become a main channel for advertising that more and more businesses may consider using for marketing and promotion in the future. That is why there are ...

AdMob has released an ad unit for developers to create campaigns and monetize their applications.  The ad unit will enable developers ad supported games and return a good profit to them.  The first developers to use AdMob’s new Android ad unit in their applications include AccuWeather, Jirbo, and TapJoy. As usual, the ad unit is designed for developers to integrate into their iPhone apps and persu...

Google AdWords, probably the main revenue maker of the largest internet company the world has ever known, is now available to target mobile devices with full (HTML) internet browsers.   These ads will differ from the mobile ads available for weaker mobile browsers by landing on desktop landing pages rather than exclusive mobile landing pages. Examples of mobile devices with full internet browsers are th...

Youtube is the largest repository of online videos on the web.  It’s so big in fact that having its own search engine really means it has its own "web" to search.  So since Youtube is owned by Google, and Google is the most successful in monetizing its search engine by selling keywords and rankings sites, hence the Youtube search engine can be monetized in the same way.   Youtu...

Craigslist, the world’s biggest classifieds site is changing its rules on sex ads.  The San Francisco-based website said that it had reached an agreement with 40 state attorneys general and agreed to tame its notoriously unruly “erotic services” listings. Anybody who has anything to sell, advertise or give away has used craigslist as a medium to peddle their goods.  Craigslist’s ...

The Google-Yahoo ad deal which both companies signed in to about four months ago is dead.  Google today, walked away from the proposed partnership with Yahoo to avoid a legal battle with federal antitrust regulators who had notified the companies that they were planning to file a lawsuit to block the agreement. The decision to kill the deal has set back both Google and Yahoo which had high hopes for the part...

The Yahoo-Google deal that went down back in June where Yahoo basically outsourced some of their Ad business to Google after the failed Microhoo acquisition has been under scrutiny from the beginning. Google competitors including Microsoft have been complaining that the Yahoo-Google partnership violates antitrust regulations and promotes unfair competition. Although that case has not yet been acted upon by the US...

    In what seems to be a confusing move on the part of the telecom giant, AT&T announced on its web page last July 18, 2008 that it is offering free Wi-Fi hot spots for iPhone users at about 17,000 Starbucks branches all over the US. This have got to excite a lot of AT&T subscribers with iPhones. But then comes the hard-to-believe part- AT&T pulls out the announcement from their web page in a...

  Google has acquired Begun , a Russian contextual ads service company for $140 million according to a press release from Rambler Media . "Rambler Media Ltd. (“Rambler” or “the Company”), operating one of Russia’s most popular internet brands, announces that it has agreed to sell its contextual advertising company ZAO Begun (“Begun”) and related subsidiaries to Go...