Tech Town, NC

Raleigh-based Real Cities Network announced on Tuesday it will sell online advertising for an additional 51 newspapers owned by the Media News Group, adding to the 31 MNG newspapers already represented by Real Cities. With this agreement Real Cities now sells ads for all 82 newspaper website operated by the Media News Group.
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Lulu.com, the successful self publishing services company based just down the road in Morrisville, NC, is suing the NBC-News Corp. joint venture “Hulu” for trademark infringement. The complaint alleges that the use of the similarly spelled domain qualifies as “unfair and deceptive trade practices and for federal cyberpiracy.” Harsh words.
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Red Herring’s Tomio Geron has posted a nice summary of stats from the trade publication “Newspapers and Technology” detailing what newspapers are doing to stay relevant. The study makes clear that printed news is not enough in a world of hyperlinks, reader feedback, and video. It’s a good sign that papers are trying […]

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The last couple months have seen increased attention (or some would say heat) on the practices of Text Link Ads and the market they’ve created. This is an important issue for many reasons, ranging from the mostly theoretical “democratic web” debate to the most nitty-gritty “this affects my bottom line” reality.
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In an effort to compete in the evolving sphere of new media, Red Herring has redesigned their site, adding social networking features, a more “Web 2.0″ look and feel, and a video only site, RedHerring.tv. We all know the sad state of Business 2.0 and Red Herring understands the realities of the […]

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With the news this week that Business 2.0 may be shutting its doors after the September issue the tech community is starting to feel for the fortunes of the old guard of Print Publishers (Yes, in the tech community a 7 year old publication counts as the “old guard”). In these heady days of […]

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