The modern advances of technology have brought the world great strides in regards to networking in the field of commerce. The new age of digital marketing agencies has made buying and selling more accessible to the general public.
There are two main strategies for marketing via a digital fashion. Firstly, pull digital marketing is where the consumer searches for data concerning goods and services by browsing the company’s information sources; this may include a website, pamphlets, or simply an old fashioned telephone call. Secondly, push digital marketing refers to the customer …

Gaming developer Storm8 has been sued for allegedly collecting phone numbers of iPhone users who downloaded the company’s popular games from the iTunes app store.
“The wireless telephone numbers of users’ phones are not used or necessary to play any of Storm8′s games, yet Storm8 has written the software for all its games in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game,” states the lawsuit, filed on behalf of Lynwood, Wash. resident Michael Turner.
Turner alleges that …

Web publishers and blog owners have a new toy to play with: Facebook announced Monday that it has launched new “share” buttons with counters, much in the manner of Digg’s iconic buttons and the third-party TweetMeme app for Twitter sharing.
Plus, there’s more: Publishers installing Facebook share buttons can also get data back related to how many times that link has been shared, how many users have hit the thumbs-up “like” button or commented on shared versions of the story on Facebook, and how many people have clicked back to it …

A report in the U.K.’s Sunday Telegraph that Deutsche Telekom AG is considering buying Sprint Nextel sent the U.S. carrier’s stock surging on Monday, up 11% this afternoon. Citing unnamed sources, the article said the company could make a bid for Sprint in the next few weeks.
The merger would give fourth-ranked carrier T-Mobile and third-largest Sprint a combined 78 million U.S. mobile customers and position the new entity as a more formidable competitor to Verizon Wireless and AT&T. At least one analyst welcomed the deal as beneficial to the entire …