Megan Jones is president and CEO of Lokion, the Memphis advertising agency that just made Inc. Magazine’s list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the nation.
Weakness in display advertising caused online ad company ValueClick (nasdaq: VCLK – news – people ) to warn investors last week that earnings in the second half of year would not be as high as expected.
US Airways, Pittsburgh International Airport’s busiest carrier, and several other airlines plan to start placing advertising on boarding passes printed online through a partnership with a private company.
Company sacrifices growth to concentrate on earnings Netflix Inc.’s second-quarter profit crept up 4 percent, beating analyst expectations as the online DVD rental leader signed up 168,000 new customers while spending less money to attract them to the service.
AOL will phase out several online services as the Time Warner unit continues to struggle in its transition from a business model based on subscription fees to one based on advertising revenue.
Microsoft held its annual financial analysts day, and talked in large part about it online businesses . The company also talked about mobile advertising and search, and some extracts and comments on it from Lehman analyst Doug Anmuth, in his weekly email report this morning:
US Airways, Pittsburgh International Airport’s busiest carrier, and several other airlines plan to start placing advertising on boarding passes printed online through a partnership with a private company.
Weakness in display advertising caused online ad company ValueClick to warn investors last week that earnings in the second half of year would not be as high as expected. And now, with the poor Q2 earnings report from Yahoo this week, within the last several days has investment bank Cowen pulling back on its expectations for the online ad industry’s growth.
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Steve Ballmer, speaking at the annual analysts meeting, defends Microsoft’s plans to invest more in online services.