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...crux of the idea is similar to Google AdWords, which gave anyone the ability to buy keywords and serve ads to users searching for stuff. (AdWords accounted for the lion's share of Google's $16.4 billion in revenue last year.) Where AdWords is targeted at what users are searching for, MyAds is targeted at the users themselves...
...Apparently our website's server crashed twice. We've never had input like that ever, and we've never had phone calls like this either. I tend to think my staff tries to read me the nicer stuff instead of the e-mails where people are calling me names [laughs], but there's been a lot of very favorable things written and a lot of favorable comments. I've had so many people stop me on the street who are excited about what I'm doing...
Historically, this stuff has often worked, even against white candidates considered too solicitous of African-American concerns. And yet this year, with a black man actually running for President, the old recipe has been shelved. John McCain hasn't run ads on crime, welfare or racial preferences. At the gop convention, the subjects barely came...
Pittsburgh's playbook still has some familiar features, but it is far more diverse. They still make stuff here, albeit with 8,400 fewer workers over 10 years. But commodity metals have been abandoned in favor of higher-value alloys like titanium. Importantly, the metal companies here now serve global industries that have been going flat out, such as power generation, energy, mining and transportation...
...modest in Pittsburgh," says Stuart Hoffman, PNC's chief economist. From ground level, Bob Intrieri can see the same thing. A partner at Allegheny Steel Products, he sells industrial innards to the machine shops and factories in the region: forgings, hubs, steel bars, wire belts used in furnaces--the stuff the global economy runs on. "I call on power-generation shops, and those guys are busy as hell," he says...