The Meltwater Group, an online media intelligence company, has acquired IceRocket, a social search engine that provides real-time search (among other things). Combined together, IceRocket and Meltwater plan to provide public relations, marketing, communications and advertising pros "with the most comprehensive set of tools for monitoring, analyzing and engaging in ...

Unless you've been hiding under a rock (on in an undisclosed location), chances are you have heard about Google+, the newest social network to hit the mainstream, that is working to give Facebook a run for its money. In general there are many different features that Google+ has that Facebook ...

The FTC is formally asking people just like you and me (the public) for advice and guidance when it comes to disclosure in online advertising. Now is your chance to help the FTC decide the rules. The FTC will seek public comment for 45 days, beginning today and continuing through ...

According to a new report out from comScore, 9 out of 10 searched conducted in Latin America are conducted on a Google-owned website. comScore has released the results from a study of the search engine market in Latin America. In the past year, search queries in Latin America surged up ...

Zuberance, a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn "word of mouth" into actual ...

A friend of mine forwarded a link to me today about a new movie called "Meet the Spartans". I have embedded a link to an interesting video of Carmen talking about the movie. You will have to watch the video in full to get more information about one of what I ...

  iPrint.com, a company that offers customizable printed products, is partnering with Network Solutions, one of the internet's original domain name registrars, to offer website marketing services. Network Solutions and iPrint.com will soon be promoting "specially designed offerings through each other's marketing channels" to offer "creative ways for small business ...

Ezilon.com has just launche a new localized human edited directory for China at http://cn.ezilon.com/ in an effort to expand its services to China's rapidly growing population of Internet users. The quality directory service Ezilon.com is known for especially in Europe and USA is now being extended to China. The new ...

Do you want to optimize Flash, Ajax, or another form of "Web 2.0" media? Offermatica has a new product that will optimize Flash, Ajax, and other forms of "Web 2.0" rich media using advanced testing and real-time personalization. Offermatica is a leading provider of media testing and optimization software. Their latest ...

Finnish Agencies have launched a "Global Competition" for marketers and advertisers. They're searching for the "Best Brief in the World". MTL, a trade organisation representing the advertising and public relations industry in Finland, has officially launched "The Brief Competition", a unique, new, international competition for marketers. MTL wants to raise ...