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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Are you looking for a detailed way to keep track of police calls in your neighborhood or town? A new website called CrimeReports.com allows visitors to view where crime reports were filed and integrates the information with Google maps.
Founder, Greg Whisenant started the site after being a victim of ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Facebook is extending their reach with the Samwer brothers, German entrepreneurs that have bought into Facebook for an undisclosed sum.
"We are going to support the expansion of Facebook in Europe ... We know the online space in Europe extremely well," Samwer said in a telephone interview.
Samwer would not disclose ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Microsoft has recently announced their newest endeavor - bringing advertisements straight to grocer shoppers on their shopping carts. Microsoft worked with Plano, Texas-based MediaCart Holdings Inc. for four years developing the technology.
The purchase of aQuantive will deliver the technology to serve up relevant ads as a consumer shops at ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I was reading through some press releases this morning and found one about an upcoming domain auction. This is something I remember hearing about a few years ago, but put out of my head while building long term websites.
After reading the sites press, I decided to check out their ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Here's another story of a web property selling at a premium. Penthouse recently announced that they have purchased Adultfriendfinder, an adult dating website for $500 million in cash and securities.
Penthouse bought Various Inc, which operates in total more than 25 online communities with a combined member base of some ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Revolution Health Group has agreed to purchase HealthTalk and will invest in SparkPeople, a website designed to help people set and achieve weight loss goals.
Company co-founder Steven Case had this to say about the decision to acquire these web properties.
"With HealthTalk and SparkPeople, Revolution Health Network is now the second ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
The FCC recently approved a bid for AT&T to purchase Ingenio, an advertising company. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
AT&T Inc bought Ingenio to boost its directories business and compete more directly with Google Inc. Ingenio's technology, called "pay per call," allows companies to post online advertisements and pay ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Today there is great news for AdSense publishers in Argentina, Chile, China (mainland), Colombia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines and Romania.
Google recently announced that they are now able to make payments to publishers in these countries via Western Union. This payment option will eliminate waiting for checks or paying ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Dell came to an agreement with Google to sell Google Search Devices. These devices help companies find information on their networks. These devices are geared towards businesses.
Dell said it would sell Google Search Appliance starting at $30,000 and the Google Mini starting at $1,995 to U.S. corporate customers and ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Google and Ask.com recently announced that they have extended their advertising agreement by another 5 years.
Google will continue to provide sponsored listings on the website. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"It is just great that Ask.com has been able to extend its agreement with Google. ...
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