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Agonizing Wait for Verizon iPhone Ends With Agonizingly Hyperbolic Advertisement

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 20, 2011 at 6:30 pm PT

The wait for the Verizon iPhone won’t officially end until Feb. 10, but the company’s already thanking its customers for sticking with it until it was able to ink a carrier deal with Apple. How? With a hyperbolic new advertisement. How thoughtful.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Live at D: Dive Into Mobile

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 7, 2010 at 10:12 am PT

Spotify’s Daniel Ek, who heads up the most talked about streaming music service in Europe, continues to promise a U.S. launch this year. With three weeks left, will the Swedish entrepreneur keep his promise? Look at Ek’s interview with MediaMemo’s own Peter Kafka from D: Dive Into Mobile after the jump.

Was Google Ad Designed for Viral Mockery? "Parisian Oops," "Is Tiger Feeling Lucky Today"…What Next?

Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Yesterday, the day after after Google aired its first national commercial on the Super Bowl, an exec at a rival Internet company marveled at what high favorable scores the “Parisian Love” advertisement got, adding that the possibilities for spoofs were endless. “I have a feeling that making fun of it will probably be a good thing for Google,” sighed the exec, who would dearly like such attention. And, indeed, it did not take two seconds before the takeoffs on the ad–an unusually sentimental, but effective, ongoing story about love in Paris, using only Google’s iconic search box–appeared.

Laptop Punters

John Paczkowski in News on July 24, 2009 at 6:57 am PT

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner must be so disappointed. Remarking on the company’s “PC Hunter” ad campaign last week, Turner said he’d been ebullient when attorneys for Apple called to complain. But now the company has quietly modified the ad in question to address Apple’s complaints.

Yahoo: Collins Stewart Says Fundamentals "Deteriorating"

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on September 26, 2008 at 7:30 am PT

More trouble lurks ahead for Yahoo (YHOO), Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Agrawal warned this morning. “We believe that the fundamentals at YHOO are deteriorating,” he writes in a research note. “On the one hand, economic headwinds and turmoil in the financial markets are causing weaker display ad revenues.”

Seinfeld and Gates Ads Over: Not That There's Anything Wrong With That!

Kara Swisher in News on September 17, 2008 at 4:47 pm PT

While the very quirky ads rolled out by Microsoft to tout itself, starring Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld, got a ton of hype, it turns out there will be no more than than three already released. It seems the churros have gone cold. According to a Microsoft spokesman, the ads were apparently just a warmup for more to come, as early as tomorrow, and though the new ones will not use Seinfeld in any significant way, they might still feature Gates.