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Top 5 Most Charitable Givers

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The quick and constant evolution in the field of technology makes it one of the most profitable playgrounds for the people with the right ideas and, while it’s a well known fact that the innovators in this field easily hit the top spots in Forbes richest people lists, not everybody knows that these people also [...]

Lessons Learned at #adtech New York

Sometime’s a company’s greatest resource could be in its own backyard. “ Your employees are the most authentic story tellers you have. Great insight by @wnd at #adtech #brandmarketing ad:tech November 10, 2011 9:33:59 AM EST ReplyRetweet There may yet be a lesson in monetizing the Facebook Like. “ There are 100 million likes per [...]

Walter Isaacson Remembers Steve Jobs at ad:tech Keynote

Isaacson offered one soundbite in particular that summed up what Jobs did so well that few if none before him had. “ “Nobody was better able to connect art and engineering than Steve Jobs.” – Walter Isaacson #adtech t.co/hmeGXDUf Brittany Hunley November 9, 2011 1:55:12 PM EST ReplyRetweet Much of his speech focused around what [...]

FTC’s Jon Leibowitz Wows #adtech Crowd

As with most of ad:tech’s brilliant keynotes, this one definitely drummed up a lot of hype.  “ Final session of #adtech day 1 about to start with Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the @FTCgov Fed Trade Commission -should be a good discussion Accenture Social November 8, 2011 4:22:00 PM EST ReplyRetweet He touched on a lot [...]

Affiliate Bites: Bill Gates Is a Great Sport, Marketers Are Afraid of Day of the Dead, + More

» Aw. Bill Gates is a great sport. He dismissed criticisms Steve Jobs made about him via his authorized biography while praising the late innovator’s contributions to the world. [ABC News] » Leave it up to Halloween to inspire a gimmicky site designed to help you waste time: Costume DB is a crowdsourced database of [...]

Affiliate Bites: Facebook Faces Euro Penalty, Gmail’s Massive Reinvention, + More

» Facebook could have to pay a €100K penality for holding onto data that its users have deleted. [The Guardian] » According to this accidentally-leaked video clip, a new Gmail is headed our way. [Mashable] » We’d be lying if we said we weren’t curious about reading this fancy new tell-all about the late great [...]

Affiliate Bites: How to Brand #OWS, Twice As Many Female Entrepreneurs in Tech in Last 3 Years, + More

» The world is paying attention the Occupy Wall Street protests–and that includes marketers who are dissecting the movement for its brand appeal and jingoism. [TIME] » Find out how one social entrepreneur is turning your social ephemera (status messages, Likes, tweets, etc.!) into hyperlocal ad inventory. [BetaBeat] » The number of female founders in [...]

Reactions to #NoAdTax

Affiliate marketers fearing Amazon’s sweeping program cut in California enjoy a year-long extension…but how are they reacting? Affiliate marketer Jeannine Crooks made a sharp observation. “ #Wal-Mart is a sales tax hypocrite. Whining about #Amazon, while committing the same offense! http://ow.ly/6Eh5E #noadtax Jeannine_Crooks September 25, 2011 Meanwhile, Kent Demas saw it as an ominous cloud [...]

One-Third of American Adults May Want Marketers to Text Them

Frustrated and furious about that text you just received for interest-free loans? Well, get used to it. It turns out that as many as 31% of all Americans aged 18 and over prefer to be reached by text message than any other media, according to a new report. And while these statistics are probably more [...]

Affiliate Bites: Will Qwister Slow Netflix Revenues Further?, Facebook-Assisted U.S. Jobs Boom, + More

Netflix splits into two, Google leapfrogs further into Daily Deals, and MailChimp gives affiliate marketers the stink-eye.