To say that 2011 was a big year for the media, technology and PR industries would be a huge understatement. We saw LinkedIn’s IPO, the firing of Michael Arrington from TechCrunch, the firing of Carol Bartz from Yahoo!, the launch of Google+, the unfortunate passing of Steve Jobs and much, much more. Here are some [...]

Some people say the news embargo is dead. I say there is a time and a place for everything. Case in point: On Monday, Facebook launched its long-awaited and lusted after iPad app. A funny thing happened at around 4 p.m. ET that day: a flood of stories on the new app popped at exactly the same time.

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 [...]