Facebook Aiming For $100 Billion IPO in Early 2012: Report

Facebook, the dominant internet social networking company, is making plans to go public early next year at a vertigo-inducing valuation of over $100 billion, CNBC reported said Monday. The Palo Alto-based web phenom could file registration papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission as early as October. Original Link: http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/7smzDEe_ku4/ via my6sense

Our New Approach to Measuring Online Advertising

Charles Buchwalter, SVP, Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings As networks wrap up their yearly upfront ad sales, there has been no shortage of pontifications about how well (or not) online advertising fared in this year’s negotiations. Media companies are in a race to boost revenue from their online offerings. They know the audiences are there, but … Continue reading Our New Approach to Measuring Online Advertising

A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, June 13th

As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? … Original … Continue reading A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Monday, June 13th

Football portion of UT’s NCAA hearing ends; Lane Kiffin ‘glad that it’s over’

INDIANAPOLIS – The football portion involving Tennessee’s former coaches at today’s hearing with the Committee on Infractions wrapped up in time for a late lunch after more than four hours of deliberations. Original Link: http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2011/jun/11/football-portion-uts-ncaa-hearing-ends-lane-kiffin/?partner=RSS via my6sense

Hearst Opens App Lab, Plans A Dozen New Apps Over Next Six Months

With nearly 100 apps already in circulation, including Zinio digital replicas of all its 14 magazines, Hearst plans to issue a dozen more apps over the next year. The apps will be fairly divided between ones for existing magazine titles and ones that bear little or no relation to its periodicals,  said Chris Wilkes, Hearst … Continue reading Hearst Opens App Lab, Plans A Dozen New Apps Over Next Six Months

Cronan Named Interim Athletic Director

Joan Cronan, the University of Tennessee athletic department’s longtime women’s athletic director, has been named interim vice chancellor/director of athletics. Cronan will fill the temporary void left by Mike Hamilton, who resigned Tuesday as the school’s men’s athletic director. According to a university press release, Hamilton’s replacement will “serve as the senior administrator” of the … Continue reading Cronan Named Interim Athletic Director

University of Tennessee Athletic Director Hamilton Resigns

KNOXVILLE – A surprise to few amid growing discontent, Mike Hamilton’s departure as University of Tennessee athletic director was announced this morning at 11 in a press conference at Teneessee’s Stokely Family Media Center in Neyland Stadium. “I have been on an interesting journey both personally and professionally,” Hamilton said, bringing up his visit to … Continue reading University of Tennessee Athletic Director Hamilton Resigns

Apple iTunes And The Cloud: The Fine Print

For a certain segment of geeks, checking the changes to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iTunes Store Terms and Conditions after new features are added or a new version is released is as much a ritual as unboxing. One reason, at least in my case, is that Apple usually requires you to agree to the new … Continue reading Apple iTunes And The Cloud: The Fine Print

AAF-Knoxville Takes You Behind the Brands

AAF-Knoxville Takes You Behind the Brands Summer Conference: July 28-31 Agenda, Details, Registration: AAFBehindtheBrand.com Don’t let the title deceive you: this event is open to all communications professionals – and you’ll want to put this conference on your “must attend” list. The 2011 AAF Summer Conference and District 7 Leadership Event will be held at … Continue reading AAF-Knoxville Takes You Behind the Brands