Doctors and Physicians in the United States. Doctors by speciality and city or state and visitor reviews ratings.
| What Recession? NBC Bumps 09 Super Bowl Ad Prices By 10% |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 1:02 pm |
| NBC, who will televise next year's Super Bowl, must be feeling confident about the 2009 economy, because they're making $3 million the entry point for a 30 second Super Bowl ad, says the Wall Street Journal. This represents a 10% increase in price--double the normal yearly ad price increase--at a time when most ad budgets are shrinking. Last |
 Comments (0)
 Blog link
Rating: 0 
|
| LinkedIn For $1 Billion? Why Not? |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 12:50 pm |
| Mike Arrington hears that LinkedIn is looking for funding at a $1 billion valuation. We hear the same thing, with one additional nugget: We're told, secondhand, that the company is quite close to actually getting a deal, or may have already closed it (as VentureBeat suggested yesterday). Last month we pegged the company's value at $1.3 billion, |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| What Will It Take To Buy Take-Two? $28 (ERTS, TTWO) |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 12:01 pm |
| Tags: Erts, Ttwo |
| Now that Take-Two (TTWO) has released GTA IV and the market has... yawned, what happens next? Electronic Arts (ERTS) goes ahead and buys Take-Two, for something in the $27 to $28 range, predicts Goldman Sachs' Mark Wienkes. At the high end, that'd be up 5%-9% from EA's current offer of $25.74, and 3.5%-7% from Take-Two's current share price, |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Breaking News! Young People Don't Like Newspapers, News to Be Free In Future! |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 11:53 am |
| Huge news today, via Reuters: Kids these days don't like reading newspapers, and that's a problem for the industry. This scoop comes courtesy of a Zogby poll of 704 senior news execs. More than half the execs polled also believe news will be free in the future. Free news is the future? Where have we heard this before? |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Not A Typo: Playboy (PLA) Reports Lower Digital Revenue |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 11:30 am |
| Tags: Pla |
| Few publishing empires were decimated by the Internet (or was that DVD?or VHS?) as badly as Hugh Hefner's iconic Playboy (PLA). So it's no surprise to see its print business continue to shrivel. But online, too? Playboy's online revenues were down 3% to $15.2 million in Q1 from $15.7 million last year. Why? Per the earnings release: "gains in |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Recession Makes Me Want to...Shop! |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 11:13 am |
| Tags: Poster |
| I MHO there's nothing better than reminding me of our country's financial woes to entice me to spend more money. |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| More Grownups For Facebook: Andreessen To Board |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 11:08 am |
| Tags: Goog, Yhoo, Msft |
| More high-level help for Mark Zuckerberg: He's getting a new PR boss -- Elliot Schrage, from Google (GOOG) -- and a new board member -- Marc Andreessen, from the origins of the Web. Kara Swisher reports that Marc has "verbally agreed" to join the Facebook board, where he'll join Zuck and investors Peter Thiel and Jim Breyer. Marc may be best |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Ted Mininni: Tapping into Great Ideas Right Under Your Nose |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:32 am |
| Tags: Marketing |
| Business Week is running a series of what you might call self-help articles for businesses. Before you yawn and think it's the same old, same old, you might want to check this out. In an April 28th article titled: Finding Your Company's Great Thinkers, I was pleasantly surprised by the content. I think you might be, too.The article's |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Wild Posting Wordplay Delivers the Beef |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:31 am |
| Tags: Good |
| So...how do you get the word out about your grass-fed meat? |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Qwest Dumps Sprint Nextel For Verizon Wireless |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:23 am |
| Tags: Dtv, Rimm, Vod |
| More bad news for beaten-up Sprint Nextel (S), though we've heard rumors about this for a while: Qwest Communications (Q) is formally ditching long-time partner Sprint as its wireless service partner for larger rival Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon (VZ) and Vodafone (VOD). Qwest customers will have access to all of Verizon's phones, |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Microsoft's Zune Adds NBC Shows, Other Features; Still Unable To Combat Fierce Apathy |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:20 am |
| Tags: Aapl, Msft |
| Want to buy those NBC episodes that you can't get on Apple's (AAPL) iTunes store anymore? Head over to Microsoft's (MSFT) new Zune TV store, which includes NBC (GE) episodes among the 800 TV shows it will begin selling today. Microsoft is also adding new social features to its MP3 players, like the ability to access real-time feeds of music your |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Paul Dunay: Oh Behave! Hidden Forces that Shape Irrational Behavior |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:16 am |
| Tags: Marketing |
| When marketers design a marketing campaign we typically design them for rational buyers. But do buyers ever act rational? And what about us? When we make decisions we think we're in control and making rational choices. But are we? Dan Ariely a faculty member at MIT's Sloan School of Management and member of the Media Lab has launched |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Jim Kukral: Video: Papa Johns vs. Cleveland, a PR Tragedy? |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:11 am |
| Tags: Marketing |
| Calling all marketing and PR professionals. Here's a story you should have something to say about. Please watch the video below.Summary: Franchise pizza chain Papa Johns loses control of a Washington-based franchise who calls Cleveland Cavs star Lebron James a "crybaby" by having t-shirts made that say as much. Cleveland media and fans pick up |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Social Media Measurement Tool Hypothesized |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:08 am |
| Tags: Social |
| Though, according to Alisa Leonard, there really isn't such a thing as social media since all internet media is, by definition, social, Alisa has crafted the ideal social media analysis tool to peer inside this oh-s0-conversational segment of media. |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
| Yahoo: We're Selling 50% Of Our Video Inventory In Advance (YHOO) |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 10:07 am |
| Tags: Yhoo |
| They might be distracted, but Yahoo's video sales team is open for business. Rebecca Paoletti, director of video strategy, says sales are brisk. It's the third year that Yahoo (YHOO) has held video sales talks with advertisers in parallel with TV's "upfront" sales season. Meetings with advertisers started this week, and Paoletti said judging from |
|
Comments (0)
Blog link
Rating: 0
|
