KarmaHire launches public beta test next week to flip the funnel on hiring and recruiting

Every year, the hiring and recruiting industry spends about $9 billion on job ads for a pitiful success rate of under 4 percent. KarmaHire is is trying to change that, to flip the funnel on hiring -- and it's succeeding, so far.

Hey, devs, PaeDae’s Bartr turns advertising into a free service

Does advertising always have to operate within a pay to play model? PaeDae doesn't think so.

IPO candidate Marin Software admits it won’t be profitable in the ‘foreseeable future’

This is the first ad-tech company to go public in 2013, a year that looks set to be chock-full of IPOs.

Fee-fi-fo-fum: Virool raises giant-sized first round

Video advertising platform Virool raises $6.6 million in seed funding, which is the largest seed round in Y Combinator's history.

Google debuts slick ad showing off LG’s Nexus 4 & Google Now (video)

Google used a primetime advertising slot during Grammy Awards last night to show off the popular Nexus 4 smartphone and many uses of Google Now, its Siri competitor.

How you can advertise smarter and cheaper on Google AdWords than PC Mall, Costco, and Overstock.com

You wasted a good chunk of that $50 billion on advertising that didn't convert, didn't show ROI, and wasn't intelligently conceived. Ideagility CEO Ron McDaniel wants to change that.

Reddit ads will now show up by default for Adblock Plus users

Adblock Plus will no longer block advertising on community news site Reddit by default, the Germany-based Adblock developer team announced today.

Facebook ads will start letting you know — sort of — when they’re targeting you

Facebook's ads will start showing an AdChoices icon, which the advertising industry hopes to make into a universal indicator that you're being targeted.

Here are the top 10 ads that ‘won’ the Super Bowl this year

This year's Super Bowl ad landscape featured babies in space, a crazy goat, and another gross GoDaddy commercial. But a touching story about Budweiser Clydesdale and the man who raised it beat all other ads.

Super Bowl blackout quickly spawns social ads & parody Twitter accounts

The 2013 Super Bowl will be known for having a record-breaking kick return, a half-hour game delay, and some quick thinking social media users.

Check out Samsung’s hella expensive 120-second Super Bowl spot (video)

What kind of commercial do you run if you're constantly locked up in legal battles with your major competitor? If you're Samsung, you fork over a dumpster full of cash and avoid alluding to Apple devices like you've done in the past.

3 billion check-ins let Foursquare highlight the most awesome places in the U.S.

Three billion tweets and tens of millions of tips ought to add up to something. In Foursquare's case, that means the "Best of" series, which highlights "the most awesome places in cities across the U.S."

Ooyala’s new Twitter Card support turns your Twitter feed into ESPN SportsCenter

Sports fans will be pleased to learn that their Twitter feeds are now more useful for catching up on game highlights and replay video clips.