Ticket vendors, Ticketmaster and Live Nation have finally announced their merger, one that values around $2.5 billion. The merger would now be called Live Nation Entertainment and would alter the way how tickets are sold for music events. it would offer enthusiasts to bid for tickets in the Live Nation Entertainment market; breaking away from the traditional methods of selling them. In a press release, CEO Live Nation, Michael Rapino stated:
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Google has hired a former SVP Operations of AOL Europe, Jonathan Lister as MD and Head of Google Canada. His primary objectives will be to continue strengthening Google’s reach in the business community in Canada. he will also be leading the ad sales operations and further expand Google’s product and the services it offers. In a press release, VP Advertising Sales, Google North America, Penry Rice stated:
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There is news in the air that Twitter will soon be putting a price on an account that belongs to firms. The idea came out in an interview of Biz Stone with Marketing, a British trade magazine. This doesn’t surprise anyone as the micro-blogging service had been trying to do something about generating revenue given the massive success it has amassed over time. Another reason behind it can be the advantage firms have taken, Dell’s example of generating revenue from the service being one. Stone stated in the interview:
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Facebook after crossing way past MySpace has put out another new feature; enabling users to label notes, photos across its network as Like. Well that isn’t something new as the same feature exists on FriendFeed. Those of you using FriendFeed are already aware how it works, but to shed some light, users upon finding something they like can just label anything that’s interesting as Like. Well this isn’t the first time Facebook has taken up the microblogging network’s features, it already has import activity to bring in feeds from other sites. Fair enough as anything good just gets better at Facebook.
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Oodle, a service that provides classifieds for social networks continues to crawl higher after major social networks selected it to power their classifieds. Those social networks include MySpace, the leading social network; Facebook also has its classifieds powered by it and online store, Walmart. The provider has added another $5.6 million to its treasury, the funding had been provided by Greylock Partners, JAFCO Ventures and Redpoint. This brings its total funding to $21.6 million. I guess it has a pretty solid grip over the classified market.
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It gets very bothersome when you are in some new place, a new city and don’t know an address of some place of interest. MashSpots offers its free service that lets you know up to four places of interest by simply clicking anywhere on the map. The application can be integrated with your own site along with its iPhone app. The app is pretty useful if you need people to know the whereabouts of your office or company’s location.
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iLovePhotos released its version 1.0 with pretty useful improvements to its app. The latest release provides an easier way to share along with making it more stable, an issue that many users had reported of. Apart from that it enables faster syncing as well as introducing auto-save feature. users can tag images by simply selecting an image and typing in the person’s name. Apart from all the features the team is also working on integrating face recognition with its app. It will be good to see future releases bringing out an easier way t o share images with web services like Flickr and Facebook, I bet it will help iLovePhoto’s invite more users to use its service.
