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Amazon Launches Inauguration Store
by Sarah Mahoney 2 hours ago |
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It's time to get started on the next retail countdown, with Amazon.com launching a special site for the upcoming presidential inauguration. The site, opening as Washington, D.C., continues gearing up for the big event, is obviously selling Obama-themed paraphernalia, from t-shirts and collectibles to iPods etched in his image and "DeadHeads for Obama" buttons.
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'Net Will See Nothing But Flat CPMs, Analyst Also Says Ad Model Has Failed For Social Nets, Online Video
by Joe Mandese |
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While online ad spending is projected to continue expanding - albeit at a much more modest rate of growth - the contraction of the general economy is expected to put even greater downward pressure on the price of both online display and search advertising, according to a new 2009 outlook for the Internet industry released Monday by a top Wall Street researcher. That analyst, JP Morgan's Imran Khan, also predicted that advertising models would fail for two of the Web's hottest emerging platforms - online video and social media - and that it would take longer than expected for a substantive mobile advertising marketplace to emerge.
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