• Video DSPs Take Hold

    TubeMogul is attracting top brands by providing advertisers full transparency and control when buying video ads across the Web. Should that worry publishers selling video ads via exchanges?


  • The Case For Web Anonymity

    Many are chiming in on the debate over online anonymity. Those arguing to eliminate online anonymity altogether risk throwing out the baby with the bath water in the name of “civility.”


  • The Tech World is Starstruck

    Justin Timberlake, former boy-band member, solo artist and actor can now add social media investor and creative strategist to his resume. Plus: Space tweet and 30 years of MTV.


  • Even Daily Deals Have an Exchange

    A new platform modeled on online ad exchanges looks to assist publishers in enhancing their deals sites, attract consumers with deals they can use and give advertisers measurable results.


  • Reading List: Mesh Businesses

    For all the talk of social media for sharing content, there’s a more exciting development of business categories rethought around the notion of sharing rather than consuming. Plus: Web publishers shouldn’t look to Slovakia for answers, Hulu’s dance card and Twitter eye-popping valuation.


  • Anonymity is Suspicious

    We are all so used to being able to find out about people online; are we moving towards a society in which online anonymity is suspicious?


  • The Signal: Mobile Gender Gap

    It turns out women are less likely than men to own a cell phone. Plus: Apple and Samsung exchange volleys in the patent war, Nike and Siemans look to restructure deal, and more.


  • The Signal: Shazam Cashes In

    Music-id app Shazam raised $32 million, a huge round for the company that at least theoretically shows it has a big market opportunity. That might lie not so much in music but in TV. Plus: Nokia tries to regain its mojo, the next iPhone won’t come out until the fall, and more.