Even though he was brought on-stage to talk about trends in online advertising, Sean Finnegan said ads actually aren’t the main priority at Starcom MediaVest, the global agency where he’s chief digital officer…

A new study of online discussion around social music sites shows Apple’s Ping is the least-talked about among Spotify, Rdio, Blip.fm and Pandora. Of the relatively little being said about Ping, 43% is negative, 3% is mixed and 54% is positive, according to the study by Infegy, which analyzes “chatter” from millions of sites on the Web…

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Now that this year’s fall DEMO, the technology launchpad conference co-produced by VentureBeat and IDG, is winding down, we’ve chosen the strongest entries among the 70 companies who’ve demonstrated new products on stage…

Ad sales on Facebook are expected to reach a whopping $1.3 billion this year alone, thanks in part to the social network’s massive reach to over 500 million members. So it would make sense for Ad…

Honestly, who do you have to fund to get people into a swimming pool around here? I’m at the DEMO Fall 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., a venerable technology event which has moved to Silicon Valley for the first time…

Matt Marshall, editor-in-chief and founder of VentureBeat, kicked off the opening of the DEMO Fall 2010 conference today with a little too much information about his latest date and how she showed off her virtual farm to him…

A Swedish couple has built a platform for virtually trading 21 of the hottest companies on the Web, including Google, Twitter, Foursquare, Amazon and and Groupon. Gigapie launched today, with Facebook priced at 200 credits, or $20…

Extole (the startup formerly known as TellAPal), which offers a suite of social media marketing tools under the guise of a “Social Marketing as a Service Platform”, this morning announced it has secured $5 million in Series A funding…

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ReadMedia, which has made a business of distributing hundreds of thousands of locally-targeted press releases to media outlets across the country, is now trying to make a more direct play in online hyperlocal news…