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Martin Sorrell has spent two decades turning WPP Group into the world’s second-largest advertising-p.r. company. It’s a weirdly effective mix of order and chaos.

Online advertising at Fox Interactive Media, the News Corporation division that controls MySpace, has failed to grow as quickly as expected this year, leaving the unit likely to miss a $1bn revenue target.

These figures (PDF) are from the Nielsen Company, and show that online advertising is still growing much faster than all other categories, though growth has slowed from 35% between 2005 and 2006.

Whereas the ‘general’ search market is dominated by a limited number of players (the combined market share of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Ask in the UK was 97% in the January), the market for local search is much more open

Almost 80% of the world’s teenagers use the internet to instant message friends and prefer it to email, according to new research.

This is the third article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. We are taking a look at 77+ quality and usefull WordPress Plug-ins, which have been very handy and saves us lots of time and effort to run our blog the way we wa

The buzzword for today is personal branding and how the brand you build today will be even more powerful in the future. Marshall Sponder says Personal Branding Pays Off – At Least, It Will In 5 or 10 Years, while John Battelle is talking about The Rise

How could the acquisition of an app that runs entirely on the Twitter API, by another service that isn’t even publicly available yet be a big deal? Let us count the ways…

Often publishers ask us why Google News didn’t include one of their articles, or skipped the image associated with an article. In the search for answers, we’ve noticed that there’s a lot of confusion about how we include and rank articles. We’d like to sh