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Yahoo! and Media.net Launch Contextual Ads for Web Publishers

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Yahoo! (YHOO) and Media.net today announced a long-term agreement to launch Yahoo! Bing Network Contextual Ads, powered by Media.net. The program aims to provide web publishers with a powerful and effective new solution for earning advertising revenue. Publishers can now use the Media.net platform to create and customize ad units that display relevant text ads from across the Yahoo! Bing Network.

Since its inception, Media.net has invested tremendous resources people, capital and time to build what Yahoo! identifies to be a terrific monetization solution for web publishers, said Al Echamendi, Vice President, Business Development, Yahoo!. During our evaluation process, we recognized Media.net as a technology and innovation leader, with a strong management team that has a significant business track record and industry experience.

Yahoo! holds a key leadership position in online advertising, said Divyank Turakhia, Founder & CEO at Media.net. Teaming up with Yahoo! allows us to offer web publishers with a solution that generates additional revenue for them and provides customization, control and flexibility that they would like.

Media.net will exclusively manage technology, business operations and relationships with respect to publishers worldwide for the program. Yahoo! will manage technology, business operations and relationships with respect to advertisers and drive advertiser sales worldwide for the program. Yahoo! will also manage all aspects of network operations to adhere to existing quality traffic standards.

The program is designed to work for websites that have premium content, where placing contextually relevant ads could result in high user engagement rates. The program is currently limited only to websites that primarily receive the majority of their traffic from the United States, Canada or United Kingdom.

Key Features of the program for publishers include:

To learn more about the program, visit http://contextualads.yahoo.com.

Advertisers can access this publisher inventory by signing up with the Yahoo! Bing Network. Existing Yahoo! Bing Network search advertisers that have selected to distribute their ads via syndicated search partners or that have opted-in to advertise on the content network will automatically and instantly access this high-quality publisher inventory.

Implementation of the deal has already begun with Contextual Ads appearing on several Yahoo! properties.

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Roswell GA Air Conditioning Repair, Plumbing, Pest Control and Painting Contractors Hire MicroManaged Media, Inc. for …

R.S. Andrews Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning, Shield Pest Management and Painting Plus have hired MicroManaged Media, Inc. to promote their Air Conditioning, Plumbing, Pest Control and House Painting services in Roswell GA and the metro Atlanta, GA area.

Roswell, GA (PRWEB) September 24, 2012

MicroManaged Media serves small businesses like air conditioning, plumbing, pest control and painting contractors with a unique pay-per-call model for sales lead generation. - Bob Rutledge, President of MicroManaged Media, Inc.

Roswell Air Conditioning Repair

R.S. Andrews is a Roswell Air Conditioning Repair http://airconditioningroswell.com/ contractor serving the residential and commercial markets. If your HVAC system needs preventive maintenance, repair or replacement, call today. Their skilled technicians service all brands of air conditioners, heat pumps and furnaces including Trane, Carrier, Bryant, Lennox, Amana, Goodman, York, American Standard, Sears and more.

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1. Sewer Repair

2. Leak Detection

3. Toilet Repair and Installation

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Travel experts gaining control of travel policies in Asia-Pacific: GBTA-Egencia study

Gurgaon, Sep.30 (ANI): Travel professionals are playing an increasingly large and influential role in shaping and controlling business travel policy, a new report on Asia Pacific (APAC) trends by the GBTA Foundation has opined.

According to the report, this has been made possible with the help of online booking tools, as well as a growing focus on cost-saving efforts.

"As recent studies by GBTA indicate, we expect double digit growth in business travel to Asia. With companies eager to capitalize on business expansion opportunities in this thriving region, corporate travel departments will be critical to their success," said Welf J. Ebeling, regional director of GBTA Asia.

Ebeling added: "This study shows that travel managers are gaining more control over budgets to help contain costs and ensure that road warriors can be as effective as possible."

This third annual study, "Travel Policy Trends: 'Control' - What Does it Mean and Who Has It", surveyed nearly 1,500 travel professionals in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America to determine, for the first time ever, what "control" over travel policy means to them, and how travel professionals are adapting to new and evolving business travel requirements.

The majority of travel professionals worldwide, i.e. 60 percent, indicate that they have more control over travel policy compared to a few years ago.

"Our study shows that in Asia Pacific, social media and technology, such as mobile devices, is reshaping both the traveler experience and travel manager's role in simultaneously supporting traveler needs and corporate objectives," said Cecilia Routledge, managing director of Egencia APAC.

Routledge added: "We set out to understand how travel professionals can better apply travel policy to make sure their travelers have the important information they require to manage travel details without losing sight of policy compliance."

More than half (54 percent) selected "driving savings and controlling costs" as one of the most important definitions of travel policy control.

The report reveals the top ten most important definitions of travel policy control, worldwide and across key regions. They include the following:

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New Study Shows 20% of People Turn to Social Media for Customer Service Complaints

5 Star Control takes on the topic of a recent study showing that one out of every five Canadians has used social media platforms as a means of obtaining a response to a customer service inquiry.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 01, 2012

5 Star Control wrote that businesses may be restrained by a new American Express customer service survey, reported on by the Canadian Globe and Mail, which showed that one in five Canadians has used a social media company such as Facebook or Twitter as a way of customer service interaction with a business they have patronized.

The cited survey is the American Express 2012 Global Customer Service Barometer. American Express, one of the worlds largest financial and credit card companies, conducted a survey of approximately 1000 consumers in the US, UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, The Netherlands, India, Germany, France, Italy, and Mexico. The goal was to determine how people in each of those countries interact with customer service, as well as the attitudes of consumers towards customer service, and the methods employed by companies in which provide service. It also noted the amount of people in each country who use social media networks like Facebook as a way to communicate with a company.

Facebook is one of the worlds biggest players in the social media industry. Since its inception by Mark Zuckerburg in 2004, Facebook has acquired more than 950 million users worldwide. On Facebook, people can interact with other people in their friends list by posting pictures, videos, links, and general thoughts. Businesses also use Facebook through Facebook Pages, which look similar to normal user profiles. Not only a source of small business marketing online, Facebook Pages also allow consumers to interact directly with a company through posts on its page.

The social media network Twitter take a different approach, letting users share their thoughts through 140 character tweets. More than 500 million people use Twitter monthly, generating more than 3.5 million tweets a day. In addition to regular users having Twitter accounts, businesses can post to Twitter as well and have customers who follow them read real-time news and information. Customers can also post to a business Twitter account for a quick interaction between customer and business.

The Globe and Mail is one of the leading Canadian daily newspapers. Headquartered in Toronto, The Globe and Mail has a 167 year history, and claims a weekly circulation of more than 3.3 million Canadians. In addition to the print edition, they maintain a frequently-updated online news portal, including videos and blogs not available in print.

With nearly 20% of people using social media as a method of accessing customer service, businesses must rethink the way they interact with customers. According to The Globe and Mail, companies may wish to consider hiring a social media manager as a way of keeping on top of their social media interactions. 5StarControl points its readers to the materials of Frank Kern for more on social media. The Globe and Mail concludes that companies that pay attention to these channels will have an advantage over the competition.

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Azure Media Services Digital Asset Management with Live Streaming & Multiple Encodings Service Launched By Cognosys

MAHARASHTRA, India, Sept. 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Cognosys Technologies has launched an end to end CogDAM Digital Asset Management suite with single click encoding service with live streaming capabilities based on Azure Media Services. This media service allows clients to have a single integrated environment to manage complete media portfolio in house with feedback, rating, user tracking as well as ability to push to media server right from the convenience of a mobile phone. Images and videos of any event can be immediately transmitted to server and encoded automatically in multiple video formats including MP4, flv, swf, avi, wmv, wma etc without any manual intervention. This enables clients to stream content to any user whether on their windows laptops, mac, iphone, ipad or andorid powered phones without spending days trying to encode in multiple video formats and then get it loaded to different media servers.

Additionally, this could be combined with Digital Management Rights to control access to content to offer subscription based services. Business use case of this service involves around: A) Corporate Intranet TV: Clients can have an internal streaming service to provide their employees, suppliers and clients about their products, to import trainings to their dealers or internal staff and also to propagate messages and event launches.

B) Corporate Training management software: Clients can use this to track trainings imparted to internal users and can track feedback, ratings as well as build a social community around their internal media catalogue. Managers can assign various compulsory trainings to their teams and track progress and ensure the teams have gone through the required training programs and required assessment.

C) Event Live Streaming software :Live streaming of content is an important requirement of any event and given the diversity of formats which is required to support each kind of personal devices users are having, it is necessary to have an integrated media services solution which is able to provide same in a unified manner. Instead of complex setup for live streaming users are able to stream content using a push to stream option without any technical knowledge. D) Encoding Service: Clients can convert from multiple different video formats including HLS streaming content , H .264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VC-1, Windows Media video, FLV, SWf etc with an option to create custom bitrate ,fps and audio formats.

E) On demand streaming service: Clients looking for media solutions can have nearly unlimited media storage on azure blob storage and offer on demand multiple format streaming service with Cognosys Digital Asset Management service.

About Cognosys: Cognosys Technologies, a Red Herring Asia 2012 Top 100 winner, is a Global ISV and technical consulting company leveraging cutting edge technologies to provide custom software solutions across diverse domains with special emphasis to healthcare, banking & financial services, ERP/ CRM, high performance Cloud/ Cluster computing, complex event processing, enterprise mobile applications and creative embedded deployments. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Cognosys Technologies collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses.

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