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| See the 5 Finalists For Doritos' Crowdsourced Super Bowl Ads | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:11 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| It's that time of year again. While there have been drips and drabs of Super Bowl announcements over the past few weeks and months, the season has begun in earnest with the airing of Doritos' "Crash the Super Bowl" contest. For the sixth year in a row, the PepsiCo brand is crowdsourcing its ads in the big game. After casting for entries from Oct. 8 to Nov. 16, the brand has settled on the five finalists above.
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| Blogger Makes $333,000 Online in One Day | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:02 PM | Chris Taylor |
| It may sound like the first line of a particularly fiendish piece of spam. But a blogger has now in fact brought in a third of a million dollars in roughly 24 hours -- all while working from home, presumably at some point in his PJs. Of course, it helps that the blogger in question was Andrew Sullivan, commentator extraordinaire.
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| Online Holiday Spending Tops $40 Billion for First Time Ever | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 4:55 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| U.S. consumers spent $42.3 billion online during the holiday season, the first time online spending has ever topped $40 billion for that time period, according to comScore's latest shopping data for November and December. While online sales grew by about 14% from the previous holiday season's total of $37.2 billion, sales still fell short of the $43.4 billion (or 16% growth) that comScore had forecasted.
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| College Hunks Hauling Junk Founder Answers Questions via Live Chat | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:49 PM | Scott Gerber |
| Nick Friedman is president and co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk, the largest and fastest growing U.S.-based junk removal and moving franchise opportunity. Friedman started in college with his childhood best friend and now business partner, Omar Soliman, in a beat up cargo van. The business has grown to over 40 franchise locations nationwide.
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| Google Settles FTC Antitrust Case, Makes Minor Changes to Search and Ads | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:24 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Google has settled a 19-month long antitrust investigation with the Federal Trade Commission by voluntarily agreeing to make several minor changes to its patent policy and search operations, the two parties announced Thursday. Google has agreed not to scrape content from rival websites and then pass it off as its own content in search -- something the company allegedly did with reviews on Yelp.
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| Pinterest Makes First Acquisition: Punchfork | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 12:22 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Pinterest made its first acquisition on Thursday, buying up Punchfork, a 2-year old recipe sharing and discovery website, for an undisclosed sum. Punchfork's founder and CEO Jeff Miller announced the news Thursday in an e-mail to the website's community, noting that Punchfork will soon shut down its website, app and API.
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| Kindle Fire Gains Ground on iPad During Holidays, Study Says | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 10:28 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Apple's iPad may have lost some ground in the tablet market during the holiday season, at least according to one new study. Chitika, a mobile ad network, analyzed web usage during the holiday season and found that the iPad's share of tablet web traffic declined by more than 7% between Dec. 1 - Dec. 27. Meanwhile, the Kindle Fire's share of traffic increased by about 3% and the Samsung Galaxy tablet's web traffic jumped by more than a percent.
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| Barnes & Noble's Nook Holiday Sales Fall 12.6% | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 10:20 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| The holiday season wasn't a very merry one for Barnes & Noble. The company's retail sales fell 10.9% this holiday period compared to the same period in 2011 and sales for B&N's Nook segment were down 12.6%. The Nook unit, which includes the e-reader devices plus digital content and accessories, posted sales of $311 million for the nine-week holiday period ending Dec.
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| Twitter Now Valued at $11 Billion, Analyst Says | | Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:52 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Fueling more speculation about a possible IPO next year, an analyst looking at trading in secondary markets says Twitter's value is now north of $11 billion. Max Wolff, an analyst with Greencrest, told Forbes that Twitter's value is up since Facebook's IPO last year. "Using the secondary market for shares to mark enterprise value is a very difficult and opaque process.
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