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Yell Veteran Plant Moving On

We've learned that Yell Group veteran sales, marketing and product development executive Paul Plant has decided to accept a retirement package and will leave the company at year's end. Plant tells us that he'll take a short holiday, but almost…

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HelpHive Shifts: SMBs Must Opt-In to Have HelpHive Number

HelpHive, the new Seattle-based leads provider for service SMBs, had made some changes after running into real PR problems last week from Evan Conklin, an angry (and persistent) plumber. He was irate that the company was taking SMB phone numbers…

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More on Google/AdMob: A Big Deal

Following up on this morning's "just the facts" post about Google's AdMob acquisition, here's a bit more commentary. First off, this is a big deal -- both in size and in what it could mean for the two companies. Google…

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Breaking: Google Acquires AdMob

Google announced today that it will acquire mobile ad network AdMob for $750 million in stock. This puts the deal near the top of Google's deal sizes to date. AdMob is one of the biggest mobile ad networks and is…

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MSN’s Cyrus Krohn: The New Local Focus

Microsoft's MSN has been a good hodgepodge that gets 100 million users a month. But it hasn’t had a serious redo for 10 years. So the question posed to a new team brought in to redo the site was: How…

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