AOL Buys Time Warner All Over Again

Today, I am becoming Chief Digital Officer of DCI Group, a Washington, DC public affairs firm.

Cough-drop maker Ricola has come up with a creative way to market its product — the Mystery Cougher contest.  I heard it on the radio on the way in to work and checked it out online.  The gist is that if you offer a Ricola to someone coughing in public and that turns out to…

It feels like it is 1999 again.  WSJ reports eBay is paying $2.6 billion (more with earnouts) to buy Skype, an Internet phone company that projects revenues of $60 million this year. UPDATE: PaidContent reports on eBay’s efforts to explain why it isn’t 1999 and the deal makes sense.  It includes a 78 slide PowerPoint.

Realm Systems tried to one-up U3 (see previous post) by unveiling the Mobile Personal Server 1400E.  It’s bigger – both in claimed capabilities and size.  I haven’t yet stopped by their booth to get more information (though I plan to tomorrow), but their presentation showed enhanced security possibilities that caught my attention.  They demonstrated the…

The New York Daily News reports: Television will have to wait: Mayor Bloomberg is launching a $100,000, five-week Internet advertising blitz aimed at recruiting tens of thousand of volunteers, the Daily News has learned … The campaign currently has 6,000 volunteers, and it’s aiming to recruit a record 50,000. (Thanks to Kari Chisholm at Politics…

PaidContent reports that Google is exploring creating a financial vertical, perhaps along the lines of Yahoo! Finance. Supposedly they are in an exploratory stage and have had meetings with many data vendors.