Apple Brand Ascendent, While Yahoo’s Is in Marketing Retrograde

Way to go, Yahoo marketing! I think that pricey “It’s You” campaign might not have worked.
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Attention Shoppers: Coupons.com Grabs $30M in Funding From Greylock

VCs search for a bargain in longtime digital promotions site.
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Yahoo’s Bartz Also Gets Fired From Fortune’s Powerful Women List, While HP’s Whitman Gets Hired

It’s a tough life at the top, especially of a list.
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Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” List Again (And Look Who’s No. 40)

Vanity Fair magazine put out its high-profile “New Establishment” list of the top 50 people — and guess who made the cut from tech?
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Exclusive: MailChimp Buys Phil Kaplan’s Tiny Newsletter Start-Up, TinyLetter

MailChimp, the Atlanta-based email marketing service, has bought TinyLetter, which is well-known entrepreneur Phil Kaplan’s most recent start-up.
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More AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV Start-Ups!

Here’s the latest list of speakers for the upcoming AsiaD conference, which will take place October 19 to 21 in Hong Kong.
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Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, as Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video)

It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s first successful social networking product.
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Facebook Moves Could Disallow Apps From Running Google Ads

Facebook announced this week it will begin enforcing a policy that requires app developers to run advertising from a list of approved providers. The list does not include Google’s AdSense and DoubleClick.

At Least Andrew Mason's Goat Rodeo of Groupon Investors Will Be Fun to Watch!

With a ridiculously large investor group and an even larger pile of expectations now, how will Groupon manage its funding success going forward? Whatever happens, the social buying service’s gathering of many of the digital arena’s most prominent VC firms, institutional investors and angels could be one of the digital sectors most interesting sideshows.

Web Commerce Isn't Really Social…Yet

Is My Email Address My Identity?

DOJ, Tech Companies Settle Hiring Probe