Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• Google Gmail bug affects about 4 million users
• CMOs are optimistic about their companies’ revenue prospects
• How social media marketing objectives stack up, cost-wise
• CMO council establishes ‘mobility initiative’
• New YouTube feature helps advertisers protect their brands
• Skype launches phone service for businesses
• FCC criticizes Google-Verizon net neutrality proposal

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• Google launches real-time search home page
• ‘Minority Report’ comes to life with new advertising technologies
• Tobacco companies reach out to kids via YouTube videos, study shows
• Forbes: Companies need traditional advertising
• Free goods win out over funny viral videos
• Google adds a Skype-like service to Gmail
• New Yelp service takes aim at Groupon

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• Tweeters are three times more likely to influence a brand’s online reputation than average consumers
• Facebook offers new ‘Places’ offering
• Copyright suit against blogger could have widespread implications
• Wired magazine declares death of the Web
• Rumors surface about Google tablet
• Cygnus sells Fabricating & Metalworking and Industrial Machinery Digest
• Forty-three percent more businesses will have blogs by 2012

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• Twitter announces new ‘tweet’ button
• Pending changes to Facebook pages could affect marketers
• IBM moves further into marketing space with Unica acquisition
• Facebook ad revenue could double this year
• Google defends neutrality proposal
• CMOs saddled with more responsibility
• Internet Retailer releases annual list of companies that use SEO most effectively

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• Postal service takes $3.5 billion hit
• Online spending grew more than 10 percent in July
• The privacy debate wages on …
• Wave goodbye to the Google Wave
• More women than men are active in social networking
• Nielsen Co.: Social media rules
• E-mail and company intranet are most popular forms of internal communication

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news

• Facebook hits a half-billion members
• USPS to offer incentives to boost commercial mailings
• Small businesses spending more on search marketing
• Is the Internet filled to capacity?
• More than half of all Americans do online searches on themselves
• New opt-in bill focuses on consumers’ privacy
• New York Times reports ad revenue increase

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• Magazine ad pages grow for the first time since 2007
• Google creates new ‘do it yourself’ app system for Android phones
• Google, Yahoo! and Bing see increases in first-page advertiser activity
• Internet is the most influential form of media worldwide, according to survey
• Social network CPM rates sink overall online ad pricing
• Google ventures into display advertising with Omnicon deal
• YouTube viewers watched an average of 101 videos each in May

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• U.S. Postal Service requests 5.6 percent rate increase
• Who will win the ‘Social TV’ ad wars?
• OMMA’s list of the ‘100 Most Important Online Publishers’
• Fifty-seven percent of all U.S. Internet users visited newspaper websites in May
• More than one-third of women surveyed say they are ‘addicted’ to Facebook
• The effect of LeBron madness on media, advertising
• Ad-industry optimism is on the rise

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• MSNBC.com nixes banner ads
• Rumors build about new Google social network ‘Google Me’
• Merger and acquisition activity is up for marketing and media industries
• CMOs are sticking around longer, annual survey shows
• U.K. regulators may warn consumers of T.V. product placements
• An update on the Google vs. China situation
• Indian company charges agencies to participate in pitches
• iAd launches
• Almost three-quarters of e-retailers are developing mobile strategies, study says

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!

Losing your Friday focus? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

• Shuttered magazines get new lives as mobile apps
• Only 41 percent of companies using social media have a strategy in place, survey says
• Twitter offers new ads based on trending topics
• Only 12 percent of Web retailers have mobile versions of their sites
• Judge dismisses Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube
• Social media networking may cause spikes in oxytocin, making people willing to spend more money, study shows
• Recipients respond to commercial e-mails quickly, survey says
• Eighty-two percent of small businesses say they plan to increase e-mail efforts this year
• Social sharing helps increase e-mail click-throughs