How Pepsi Won New Customers with Community Grants

Companies donate millions to charities, museums and educational programs, but many struggle to recoup any benefits from their giving. Here’s how Pepsi succeeded in building brand loyalty with a new generation of buyers by using…

Online Advertising Overtakes Print Ads For First Time

This year, for the first time, advertisers have spent more online than they have on print newspaper ads.

Digital-marketing research firm eMarketer said U.S. spending on online ads will reach $25.8 billion in 2010, compared with $22.8 billion on print…

Is Twitter Worth $3.7 Billion? Not in the Real World

That’s the value a $200 million venture investment led by Kleiner Perkins this week implies. But that means Twitter would have a price-to-sales ratio of 840 compared to Facebook’s 26 — or Google’s 8.7. And Twitter’s growth may…

Is Twitter Worth $3.7 Billion? Not in the Real World

That’s the value a $200 million venture investment led by Kleiner Perkins this week implies. But that means Twitter would have a price-to-sales ratio of 840 compared to Facebook’s 26 — or Google’s 8.7. And Twitter’s growth may…

Yahoo’s Carol Bartz Calls Facebook the Competition

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz called Facebook a bigger rival than Google. The surprising admission shows how Facebook’s size and dominance in display advertising presents a challenge to the major portals.
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