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NPD claims that revenue from US sales of 3D TVs and standalone 3D-capable Blu-ray players has exceeded $55 million in the first three months of availability. 

3D Glasses that double as sunglasses when not viewing a 3D screen. The lenses do not cause a blurred perception when not viewing a 3D screen. 

The company is an ad-matching service that's based on the idea that people will sit through Web video ads to get a reward like a coupon or discount from the brand.  Founded in 2009, AdGenesis is announcing today that it has linked up with newspaper insert Parade, which it hopes will be the first of many publishers to white-label the service. The way it works: The consumer signs up for the service on Parade.com, where it's called Parade Video Rewards. When she meets the criteria of a participating advertiser based on buying habits she's shared, she gets an e-mail containing a link to the video ad (typically a 15- or 30-second ad) on the host's site. Once she verifies that she's watched the ad, she gets a reward, at which point the advertiser is also charged. The partner site gets traffic and a cut of the ad revenue.

 Citysearch will tap its CityGrid Media advertising network, which includes thousands of advertisers, to aggregate deals. It also signed with GroupOn and The DealMap for the same purpose. The company plans to expand its network in the future. Users can personalize the list, filter the deals into categories, and save them in a specific folder. "You can print the deal through Apple's Airprint technology on the iPhone introduced with version 4.2 iOS," Bedoya says. Aside from CityGrid, users will see aggregated daily deals from GroupOn; the site gets a percentage of the revenue share. Advertisers in the CityGrid network pay based on performance.

Monetizing video via mobile, tablet, and computer secondary screens

Motorola has warned investors that over 1/4 of their device revenues come from sales to Verizon. The risk is that if Verizon shifto ts more orders to companies like Apple and HTC, Moto could have major drops in income.

Another mobile social game deep dive/case study. Zombie Farm generating revenue in the "double digit millions" from in-app purchases. Looking to expand to Android and include ads.

10 million downloads and only 30k in revenue.

Reasons: The views still drive up ad revenues People tend to buy subscriptions once they are in the habit of reading it. How will the habit start if they can't access for free? 20 articles isn't much. Students and unemployed people will eventually be in a position to pay.

Early adopters of the social-game space, such as Zynga, Crowdstar and Playdom -- known in the industry as part of Facebook's "Top 10" -- are still raking in all the users and much of the revenue, but rising ad prices, a cluttered market, and higher transaction fees are forcing smaller players elsewhere, and in many cases off Facebook altogether.

Headline speaks for itself: Android = good for advertisers, iOS = good for developers

"Mobile phone carriers, credit card companies, and third-party sluggers, like Google and PayPal, all gain--either through selling hardware, or through transaction fees and revenue-sharing."

talks about what is working against groupon- "bait and switch" ads, revenues declining, negative PR