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Tweet MySpace plans to slash its workforce by nearly half amid reports that owner News Corp. is preparing to sell the money-losing social network. MySpace chief executive Mike Jones said Tuesday that the site was starting a "significant organizational restructuring" that would result in a 47% reduction in staff, or about 500 employees. The company [&hellip
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Tweet Walk by The North Face store in several major cities in the near future, and your mobile phone may suddenly buzz with a new text message — a coupon from the store. That’s because the company is planning to push offers over your mobile phone whenever you’re near one of their stores. The service [&hellip
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Tweet There are only so many hours per day that consumers can spend watching TV, reading newspapers and surfing the internet. But as marketers may suspect, the time devoted to media is undergoing some not-so-subtle changes. eMarketer recently conducted a meta-analysis of data from dozens of research firms using a variety of methodologies. The result [&hellip
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Tweet Teens more influential with parents and more reliant on web for information Teens and tweens have very different approaches when deciding what electronics they want. For tweens, most just “know what they like,” according to the “TeenFluence Survey” conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of ConsumerSearch.com. Ads were the second most common factor affecting [&hellip
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Tweet Sports, especially of the extreme variety, were prominently featured in four of the 10 most-shared online videos tracked by Unruly Media during December 2010. These included the top two videos: “Gymkhana Three, Part 2? from DC Shoes and “Way Back Home” from extreme biker Danny MacAskill. Physical feats have always transferred well to the [&hellip