Iconic Irish brands join forces

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Batchelors (Erin, Amigo, Lustre, Squeez) and Origin Foods Group (Shamrock, Roma, Odlums) have joined together to form something of a consumer foods super company, Valeo.
Valeo will comprise of a merger of all Batchelors and Origin food brand favorites.
European investment company Capvest will back the project and own a 55% of the new venture with Origin owning 45%.

Do you think this is a good move?

Google info leaked, brands spending big on adwords !!

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Confidential Google documents have been leaked revealing some of the biggest AdWords buyers for the month of June 2010 - containing the big brands spenders.

Why do you think these brands are opting for Google?


http://mashable.com/2010/09/06/brand-spending-google/

Apple has a hit with new social network site

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Apple have done it again, this time honing in on social networking with a musical edge!

Apple’s new music-themed social network, Ping, was just released, and it’s already got 160 million users built in.


“It’s like ‘Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes. But it’s not Facebook, it’s not Twitter. It’s a social network all about music.” explains Steve Jobs (Apple)


Users will be able to follow artists and friends, make custom song and album charts, post comments about music and they’ll be able to access 17,000 concert listings.

Will U join Ping?

Statistics in, FarmVille come out on top!

Well looky here, behold the list of most popular Facebook apps.
The statistics came in and FarmVille came out on top (no surprise there).
Developers Zynga have alot to live up to now!


http://statistics.allfacebook.com/applications

Are you a gamer ?

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An ecosystem of gaming, apps and ad networks has flourished within social network sites such as Facebook, with Google hot on their tails.
Surging ahead over the past year, one may wonder, what happens when developers running these apps on Facebook etc become bigger than the network themselves?

Gamers may not know this but these games and apps are developed separately to Facebook / Google, and are then played through the network with a percentage of revenue going to Facebook for using them as a platform!

Fact - Did you know the average gamer is a 45 year old woman? (study done by Popcap)