Archive for May, 2007
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Today Ebay announced that they have acquired Stumbleupon, a software company that runs an opt in toolbar that suggests websites based on user preferences.
The company was founded by 3 programmers in Calgary in 2001 and was financed with Venture Capital.
The Stumbleupon toolbar costs nothing for web surfers to run. ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
In the coming days don't be surprised if your Google query brings unfamiliar looking search results. Google just announced that they've done a significant update to their search engine and will start integrating videos from Youtube, photos, books and other services.
Come to find out Google has been laying the groundwork ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Today Yahoo announced that they have hired Blake Jorgensen to take the position of CFO (Chief Financial Officer.) Mr. Jorgenson is a veteran investment banker that was one of the bigwigs for one of Silicon Valley's most prolific dealmakers, Thomas Weisel.
Most recently, Jorgensen was co-director of investment banking for ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Joost, a website that brings TV shows to the internet just announced that they've raised 45 million dollars of funding through a number of major investors.
Viacom recently selected Joost to license content and is one of the investors.
Other investors include CBS Corp, Index Ventures, a major venture capital ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Microsoft has been going long on internet properties. Today the world's largest software maker announced that they were buying a 4% stake in the internet job search portal, Careerbuilder.com.
Careerbuilder is owned by Gannett Co. Inc. and Tribune Company, which are both newspaper publishers. They each share a 40.8% stake in ...
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
About.com (Parent company, The New York Times) recently announced that they were buying Consumersearch.com, a consumer shopping directory for 33 million dollars.
Consumersearch.com is a meta search engine that spiders the web (like Google) to find relevant reviews and information on products, services and other content. It generates revenue from ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
The search industry is highly competitive and the next big move out of Microsoft could be to just go buy out Yahoo.
The New York Post reported Friday that Microsoft has asked Yahoo to enter formal negotiations for an acquisition that could be worth $50 billion. Yahoo's market capitalization was ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
The first rule of Adsense Club is: you do not induce visitors to click! The second rule of Adsense Club is always follow rule one. Today Google is being a bit more clear in their explanation in a post entitled don't run the risk of click and miss, ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Incoming (and outgoing) links have always been integral to Google's link popularity based search engine ranking system. But the way links are gathered has come under fire in recent years, as one by one, Google has dismantled link schemes that "used to work", exposing certain business models to sudden ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
One thing about Google is that they are always busy making changes!
This week the big G is in the process of migrating older Adsense accounts into an upgraded interface. This move also gives publishers the opportunity to integrate multiple Google accounts
(GMail, Adwords, Picasso etc.) into one single login.
For more information ...
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