Running out of steam at work? Ease into the weekend by catching up on the latest marketing and business news:

Obama administration calls for ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’

Phone-wielding shoppers strike fear into retailers

Would you buy a car from Michael Vick?

Twitter’s relaunched site gives marketers new ground

Companies drowning in social media reach for new set of tools

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

• Facebook tries to move from application to platform
• Android Attack—Google’s plan for the iPhone
• Cisco’s Umi takes working from home to the next level
• Will Microsoft and Adobe take a bite out of Apple?

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

• Google becomes clairvoyant
• Fall preview: Get ready for Google TV
• Psst … Chicago Tribune reportedly working on top-secret project
• Companies try to raise brand awareness for virtual goods
• Facebook kicks security up a notch
• Ad market predicted to rebound

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