Category: Media Vibes

Vocus, a provider of on-demand software for public-relations management, has acquired HARO (Help A Reporter Out), a free Web service that links 30,000 reporters and bloggers with 70,000 small businesses and PR professionals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, however HARO’s ad revenues are nearly $1 million per year. HARO founder Peter Shankman will […]

Dan Butcher, staff reporter has been promoted to associate editor for Mobile Marketer and Mobile Commerce Daily. Dan covers content, carrier networks, manufacturers, and software and technology. He will continue to focus on those areas as well as report on mobile commerce issues and video content. He will also take on more editing work and […]

Chris Snow joined Telecom Engine in May 2010. He is primarily responsible for writing the telecom and M2M newsletters. Telecom Engine has plans to host the Cloud Computing Conference to be held in conjunction with this fall’s CTIA Enterprise & Applications™ 2010 in San Francisco.

Ron Wilson has left his position as the executive editor of the electrical engineering trade publication. He was with EDN since January 2006. Ron has joined the team at EE Times Group as director of content and media.

CTIA and The Enterprise Mobility Foundation – CTIA Enterprise & Applications™ 2010 and The Enterprise Mobility Foundation (EMF), today announced they are partnering this fall to host the Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp, a two-day event for IT and telecom professionals focused on building and managing an enterprise-wide wireless strategy. The Enterprise Mobility Boot Camp will […]

Matt Kapko, former RCR Wireless News journalist has re-joined the publication as feature editor. In this position, Matt will head up RCR Wireless News’ rapidly expanding special-report coverage as well as provide regular news coverage to RCR Wireless News and its affiliates. Matt has spent the last six years in the technology space as a […]

Former Arbor co-founder Ted Julian has joined Yankee Group as principal analyst and key member of the network infrastructure team. In this role, Julian will leverage his more than 15 years of industry expertise to augment Yankee Group’s research in the areas of network intelligence and security. Most recently senior VP of marketing at database […]

Leif Eriksen joined as research director covering applications for mobile and wireless. Prior to joining Gartner, Leif was the founder and managing director at Indusry Insights for one year. He previously served as the director of indusry solutions at Motorola for five years.

Expanding its analysis of the electronics value chain into the fast-growing media market, iSuppli Corp. has entered into an agreement in principle that is expected to lead to the acquisition of Screen Digest, a provider of market research covering film, television, broadband media, mobile media, cinema, home entertainment, TV technology and video games. While the […]

Samantha Bookman has been named managing editor of FierceCable, FierceIPTV, FierceOnlineVideo, FierceTelecom and FierceVoIP. In her new role, Samantha will assist the Fierce wireline editors–a group that includes Sean Buckley (FierceTelecom), Jim Barthold (FierceCable), Mike Dolan (FierceVoIP), and Jim O’Neill (FierceIPTV and FierceOnlineVideo). She will also contribute some of her own content each week in […]