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Facebook reportedly announcing Microsoft Atlas acquisition tomorrow

, Feb 27th 2013 Discuss [0]

Back in December, we heard chirps that Facebook was interested in purchasing Microsoft's Atlas ad server, but since then we haven't heard much about the deal. However, it's said that Facebook may announce tomorrow their official plans of purchasing Microsoft's Atlas ad server from the Redmond-based company. Read The Full Story

Bugs affect Facebook insights for pages

, Feb 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has discovered that its “pages” feature, which allows businesses and websites to share their information with millions of Facebook users, has a slight issue. There were some bugs that were discovered after Facebook launched a “comprehensive engineering audit” on their pages product. The bugs caused the impressions and audience reach reports to return incorrect information to businesses and websites. Read The Full Story

Apple releases new iPad TV ads focusing on app catalog

, Feb 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

One thing that Apple has going for them is their massive collection of hundreds of thousands of apps specifically catered toward the iPad, and to show off some of the more notable ones, as well as boast about the variety of apps available, the company has released two new TV ads that quickly go through a selection of cool apps. Read The Full Story

Dodge Ram “Farmer” ad wins best Super Bowl ad on YouTube

, Feb 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

The Super Bowl is a good two weeks behind us now, but the commercials are continuing to live on. We ended up rounding all of them up and showing all the ones that we liked the best, and it looks like the public shared some of our same thoughts. The 2013 YouTube Ad Blitz contest saw Dodge's Ram Trucks "Farmer" ad take the top spot. Read The Full Story

Dish Network’s chairman says he doesn’t want to kill advertisements, talks about AutoHop

, Feb 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

Dish Network has been a source of controversy for many months now thanks to its AutoHop commercial-skipping feature, which allows users to automatically skip commercials in DVR recordings. Broadcast networks have stated that such a feature is detrimental to the industry as a whole, which earns quite a bit of revenue through the advertisements. Dish's chairman Charlie Ergen has responded to this criticism in an interview with AllThingsD, stating that he doesn't want to kill commercials. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Surface Pro ad will make you want to breakdance

, Feb 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Microsoft's series of Surface advertisements have been interesting to say the least, and their latest one is no exception. It's the company's first Surface Pro advertisement to air on television, and while we get to see the tablet being thrown around in a room full of break dancers, we're not quite sure if Microsoft hit the mark on this one. Read The Full Story

First primetime Nexus 4 ad shows off Google Now in action

, Feb 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

The Nexus 4 made its first primetime television appearance last night during the Grammy Awards. However, it actually wasn't at the awards ceremony, but rather as an advertisement during a commercial break. The ad is pretty basic, and it goes over some of the cool features of Google Now, like weather updates, directions, and even language translation. Read The Full Story

Google asked to pay all European countries for content use

, Feb 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

Late last week, Google decided to pay $82 million to French publishers that would help their websites make money off of online advertisements. However, it seems there's a little bit of jealously going around with other European countries. The European Publishers Council isn't too happy about the exclusivity with France, so the EPC's director, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, is asking Google to compensate publishers in all European countries, not just France. Read The Full Story

Yahoo! pens deal to allow Google ads on its web properties

, Feb 6th 2013 Discuss [0]

Yahoo! announced earlier today that it has penned a deal with Google that will allow the Internet giant to display advertisements on its Web properties. The particularities of the deal weren't revealed, but nonetheless it's a big move for both companies, and both are sure to benefit from it. Under the deal, Google's ads will show up on Yahoo's various websites. Read The Full Story

SlashGear’s Super Bowl XLVII ad spot roundup

, Feb 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

For some people, the Super Bowl isn’t about the game, but about the commercials. We saw a lot of them during this year’s game, and there was no shortage of advertisements relating to technology, cars, and movies. We decided to round up all of the Super Bowl commercials that we thought SlashGear readers would enjoy most, including ones from Samsung, Best Buy, GoDaddy, and even BlackBerry. We’ve embedded some of our personal favorites right in this post, with links to all the other ads that are relevant.

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“M&M’s” most-trended search term on Google during Super Bowl

, Feb 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

This year's Super Bowl seemed like it was all about the commercials and the halftime show, and it turns out that the top two trending search results on Google during the big game had something to do with both, at least in the US. "M&M's" topped the list at number one, while "Beyonce" came in at number two. Unsurprisingly, "Baltimore Ravens," "San Francisco 49ers," and "Colin Kaepernick" rounded out the top five. Read The Full Story

Google starts €60 million French digital publishing fund

, Feb 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

While Google and France don't always get along and agree with certain situations, the search giant is looking to patch things up by creating a €60 million ($82 million USD) fund for digital publishing "innovation" that it says will help French news websites make money off of online advertisements. Read The Full Story
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