MediaSpike expands effort to place product ads inside social and mobile games

Company hires chief revenue officer Manny Anekal and counts Pepsi as one of its customers in its effort to get past "banner blindness."

HootSuite takes social media management into Yammer territory with Conversations

HootSuite announced an new update to its popular social media management utility today, adding functionality that veers into intranet-light territory similar to a Yammer or a Chatter.

And now, the VentureBeat staff will do a blind taste test of Pepsi’s newest soft drink

This week, we cover a smattering of tech news in our weekly video round-up — but first, we conduct a blind taste test of Pepsi’s newest soda pop-style beverage.

Irrelevant? Perhaps. But we were so excited that Pepsi picked us …