Squeak of the Week

Entries from October 2007

Facebook Got Its $15 Billion Valuation ? Now What?

October 29th, 2007 · No Comments

When a startup shows an estimated $150 million in revenue, isn’t wildly profitable, and doesn’t have a clear revenue model, no company in its right mind would give it a $15 billion valuation - except, it seems, if we’re talking about Facebook.

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration

Have A Crumby Book

October 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

We are extremely proud of each and every client relationship that we’ve forged over the years, but one of our most gratifying partnerships has been with Cincinnati’s Busken Bakery. In 1997, the year we began punching and kneading the brand, we just knew that we’d help Busken rise to the top. But we never imagined [...]

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Tags: Advertising

Apple now bigger than Big Brother

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Apple watched its quarterly financials push the company’s stock price up to around $187 a share, vaulting the iPod maker’s market cap past IBM’s, the target of Apple’s infamous "1984" ad, by about $6 billion.

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration

NY Times: In Foray Into TV, Google Is to Track Ad Audiences

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

The search giant is set to announce a partnership today with the Nielsen Company that will give advertisers a more vivid and accurate snapshot of how many people are viewing commercials on a second-by-second basis, and who those people are.

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Google Declares Jihad On Blog Link Farms

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

A major Google page rank update has punished large scale blog link farms and similar sites indulging in heavy cross linking by dramatically cutting their Google page rank scores.

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Tags: Seeds of Inspiration