Today’s Signal is very late, forgive me. I’m at the D conference, and writing a few posts over at Searchblog to boot. But news don’t slow for no one….to the links:

Given Data And Media’s De-Coupling, Should A Data Company Be Selling Media, Too? – Day 1 Reactions (AdExchanger) Worth reading – this issue is not well considered in our industry.

GSI Commerce Acquires Retargeting Company Fetchback (AdExchanger) I spoke to GSI yesterday about this acquisition. Watch this company. I am having the CEO at Web 2 this year.

How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit (Daggle) Love me some angry Danny.

Is The iPad A Disappointment? Depends When You Sold Your AOL Stock. (Searchblog) According to the commentators, I got this all wrong. I hope I clarified things here: Of Course Apple Is Going to Do Search.

B2B Spending on Social Media to Explode (eMarketer) Who doesn’t like a dose of stats like these?

Publicis Aims for Digital Growth (WSJ) Overview of holding company’s digital strategy.

Exclusive: Google Buys Invite Media (ATD) Interesting – Google joins the DSP race.

Apple Clarifies Stance on Third-Party Ads Following Regulatory Scrutiny (ClickZ) Sort of. Devil is in the details of what data, who gets it, and how they get to use it.

Engagement Has its Privileges (Open Forum) Nice piece from Solis.

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