Now a little over a month since the launch of Google+ and the most buzzed about online service already has 25 million users, estimates ComScore. These stats mean Google+ is growing faster than Facebook and MySpace did in the early days. Further, according to a new survey from Bloomberg/YouGov, Google+ is on track to claim [...]

The Future of Media Round Up features the top articles and blogs curated by The Bateman Group each month on issues and events related to the convergence of technology, media and communications.  Here’s our take on the most disruptive news, commentary and insights about PR and media from the month of June. Please share [...]

I was a little bit disappointed that I dropped the ball on getting a Google+ invite on the day of the launch, but was finally granted access to the site yesterday around 5:00 p.m. and have been tinkering with it ever since. I still don’t quite know what exactly the site is trying to do [...]

The Future of Media Round Up features the top articles and blogs curated by Bateman Group each month on the issues and events related to the convergence of technology, media and communications.

Bateman Group’s Lisa Melsted comments on Facebook hiring Burson-Marsteller to start a whisper campaign about Google and their privacy problems and the subsequent mutual fingerpointing after it was exposed.

When I woke up this morning, I found emails from five different coupon sites offering me five distinct local deals. I’m as hooked on these types of sites just as much as the next person. Apparently venture capitalists are too, having valued Groupon at $15B and LivingSocial at $2.9B. Other established Internet companies have also [...]