Archive for October, 2007
Friday, October 26th, 2007
Google has been working on buying out DoubleClick for some time now and the company is pretty confident that it will be approved by both European and United States Federal Regulators.
"The way the technology keeps getting cheaper, the competitive environment is there, I would expect to see prices in the ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Do you remember asking your mom for something using the phrase "..everyone has it / everyone will be there.." only to get shot down with the retort "if everyone were jumping off a bridge, would you do it too?"
If so, you may (or may not not) have learned that listening ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
If you've been wondering what big company would be the highest bidder to buy a stake in Facebook would be, the winner goes to Microsoft. They have purchased a 1.6 percent stake in the company for $240 million dollars.
Zuckerberg, 23, has indicated he would like to hold off on ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
In an effort to integrate personalized search into their Toolbar, StumbleUpon recently announced the launch of SearchReviews, which allows web surfers to get personalized recommendations directly into search results on Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Ask, Flickr, Wikipedia and YouTube.
StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp says he can see SearchReviews enabling eBay ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
As NBC/Universal looks to launch their own video sharing service, they have pulled down video services provided by YouTube, which is owned by Google.
The service is expected to launch in a private test later this month.
No word on what this new service will be called or when it will ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
EBay has reported a loss for Quarter 3 2007, citing a $1.39 billion writedown on the purchase of Web-based phone service Skype for the lowered numbers.
The world's largest online auctioneer and payments company reported a third-quarter net loss of $936 million, or 69 cents per diluted share, compared with ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
If you're into doing "online travel" via Google Earth, the addition of Youtube videos should enhance your experience by providing related videos of the area in which you're checking out.
The YouTube layer is available in the Featured Content folder of Google Earth.
Google said that the integration offers a ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
The best part about internet marketing is free search engine and social media traffic. It really is remarkable how much free traffic you can get. If you put up interesting content, that is unique to a niche, you'll have no trouble getting visitors from Google. And once ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Google recently announced that they have acquired Jaiku in an effort to step up their position in social networking.
Tony Hsieh, a product manager at Google, wrote in the official Google blog: "Although we do not have definite plans to announce at this time, we are excited about helping to ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Alibaba.com recently announced that they have received the "go-ahead" to list 1 billion shares in an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
The shares are expected to be listed later this month or possibly in November.
According to their website, Alibaba had 24 million registered users at the end ...
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