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Motorola: Girls Will Love Our New Smartphone!

Sam Biddle · 08/01/13 03:20PM

There's a new Android phone, and it's very nice and pretty much just like all the other very nice ones. It's also—Motorola can't stress this enough—ovary-friendly. It'll match your Pop Rocks and pink socks!

Here's How Facebook Will Invade Your TV with Product Placement

Sam Biddle · 05/28/13 02:33PM

Facebook's TV ads are still young, experimental, and a bit strange. But not for long: the site is launching an old-school product-placement campaign to buy its way onto your favorite television show. Or at least VH1's "Best Week Ever." We got our hands on internal emails and draft scripts showing how Zuckerberg intends to surreptitiously infiltrate your living room through sketch comedy.

Tumblr Has No Idea How to Handle Porn

Sam Biddle · 05/22/13 12:44PM

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is plowing through a media tour with her newly adopted internet son David Karp. On everyone's mind is how Tumblr will reconcile its vast collection of rape porn GIFs with tween-friendly advertising—and the duo doesn't have much of an answer.

Yahoo's Big Plan to Become Cool with Kids: Billboards

Sam Biddle · 05/15/13 08:51AM

Yahoo doesn't do much these days except buy silly startups and gather mounds of traffic from parents who don't know how to change their homepage. The company needs a new direction—and it's... more advertising? Oh no.

Here Is How Foursquare Plans On Turning Your Life Into Ads

Nitasha Tiku · 04/29/13 01:23PM

On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier today (RIP, Sam Biddle's press credentials!) Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley acknowledged the haters, before offering a confident dismissal: "I think there are a lot of people that think we don’t know how to generate revenue, that we aren’t generating revenue. This is wrong," he said. An internal Foursquare document obtained by Valleywag shows some of the new ways Foursquare is trying to make money: Tell advertisers where you've been.