Posts Tagged ‘Expansion’

Quepasa.com and cross-platform social game development studio Quepasa Games, has executed a definitive agreement to merge with myYearbook, the best place to meet new people on the web or mobile device, for $100 million, comprised of approximately $82 million in Quepasa common stock and approximately $18 million in cash.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

Earlier this week Buddy Media revealed a Facebook app it powers for Hollywood.com, displaying how its “app-vertisments” can not only engage users and garner market research for the entertainment industry, but offer a direct advertising option within a social network that benefits both Hollywood.com and Buddy Media as well.

With the success its multifaceted company has seen in the past year alone, it doesn’t really come as a surprise to see that Budd Media is opening an office in Chicago. With Alicia Driskill as the Midwest Sales Director, it looks like Buddy Media’s Chicago office will be focused on advertising sales. Driskill has over ten years of experience with digital media, previously working with TVGuide.com, also in the Midwest region, as well as prior work at Comcast networks and a number of other marketing agencies.
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