Storm clouds are forming around Facebook's long-awaited and highly-anticipated IPO. Of course, Facebook is a stupendous success, blowing away all expectations (thus far) and literally transforming how we spend our time online, as Netpop covered in our last Market Minute "Social Media Madness".   More

In a transactional world where companies sold stand-alone products, it was possible to wrap an ugly duckling in a stylish ad campaign and slick packaging to sucker a consumer into an impulse purchase. RONCO, for example, made a killing off of this strategy. Today, with social media and other digital word-of-mouth channels, it’s much more difficult to pull-off that strategy successfully.   More

Netpop's business and travels through China continue at a steady pace. Josh Crandall and Cate Riegner had great meetings in Shanghai with clients and friends from Google, Tencent and Silicon Valley Bank.   More