Advertising has been a killer Internet business model, making billions of dollars for Google and others. But a number of startup companies think there’s a huge untapped market in providing automatically tailored display advertising to thousands of local businesses. Ad slot: PlaceLocal automatically generates ads for local businesses by crawling the Web. Credit: PaperG Yelp, which aggregates ...

In retrospect, 2009 may be viewed as the year “social media” came of age: Facebook passed 350 million active users, Oprah made Twitter mainstream, and LinkedIn introduced a service to help recruiting agencies search the site for job candidates. But using microblogs, photoblogs, user-generated content, and even traditional blogs to interact with customers takes time and money, and some ...

Microblogging firm says it’s still considering an ad-based revenue model, but looks to its users to steer the evolution of the service. By Kenneth Corbin: With usage soaring and third-party apps on the rise, Twitter has updated its terms of service to reflect the new ways people are using the service. The company may have also provided a glimpse into its plans to edge toward profitability, with ...

By Sanjay Sharma, Advertisers these days have many options for advertising, but Mobile Advertising and Internet Advertising are the two most thrilling, as advertisements look very attractive when displayed on phone screens and on computer/laptop screens. Since much potential and scope lies in mobile and Internet advertising and it tends to deeply appeal to the viewers. Mobile Advertisement and Internet ...