Article Archive for November 2007
Upingme wants to mobilize classified ads
Upingme is a new free classified ads service in the UK that allows people to post adverts directly from their mobile phones. They call it “Classified ads 2.0″ because of Upingme’s real-time and active (rather than passive) “nature.†Users post their adverts by sending an SMS text “U†a space and then a message to +41-79-381-6010. After the message is sent, Upingme forwards it to the people who have what you want or who want to meet you. For ... Read More
Viacom Profit Rises 80% on Cable Ads and Music publishing business sale
Viacom Inc., owner of MTV and the Paramount film studio, said third-quarter profit rose 80 percent, fueled by cable advertising, the film “Transformers” and the sale of its Famous Music publishing business. The stock advanced as much as 5.1 percent after sales and profit beat analysts’ estimates. Net income increased to $641.6 million, or 96 cents a share, from $356.8 million, or 50 cents, a year earlier, New York-based Viacom said today. Sales advanced 24 percent to ... Read More
New York Times Adds Techmeme Like News Aggregation Feature
NYTimes.com has launched a new version of its technology section, which includes aggregation of news from around the Web. NYTimes.com/Tech Editor Saul Hansell told Read/WriteWeb in an email that Blogrunner “is our answer to Techmeme, integrated with our main site. It is technology we’ve built ourselves, based on Blogrunner, a company we bought last year.” Further, Hansell said that “unlike Google News and Techmeme, we aren’t trying to prove machines can be ... Read More
E-Commerce Advertising Firm, Offers Cash Bonuses
Website advertising firm, itsmymarket.com, has added new features to its free classifieds service, in an effort to enhance and improve customer interface satisfaction. Through the promotion, itsmymarket.com aims to further build the number of users and advertisers on the site and encourage more people to buy products within local areas. The first feature titled ’50 Pound Fridays’ offers advertisers the opportunity to win 50 pounds in cash every Friday. Any advertiser that ... Read More
