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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Yahoo announced earnings today and although the company didn't upset with earnings, they didn't impress, either.
They reported revenues being up 14% at 1.35 billion. They reported that their US based traffic was up 19% but international business declined by 11%.
CEO Jerry Yang spoke very upbeat, saying that he believes the ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Google announced yesterday that they have finally closed on the sale of Doubleclick.
The deal is worth 3.1 billion dollars and was approved by American and European regulators. Google is planning on serving up more relevant advertising by combining information gathered by Doubleclick's tracking system.
Google President Eric Schmidt had this ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
The Pentagon recently announced the ban of Google's Street View on Military operations after finding detailed photos of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas on the internet.
Gary Ross, spokesperson for the U.S. Northern Command said:
"We don't have any issues regarding Google and their products but the Street View provides ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Yahoo recently announced that they are going to lay off hundreds of employees as a measure to try and recover from many years of misguided management.
Yang and his management team already have committed to jettisoning at least several hundred jobs to help boost Yahoo's profits and placate investors ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Google, Yahoo, and MSN took money from gambling advertisers for 10 years, according to a recent settlement the companies have hammered out with the U.S. Justice Department.
On Wednesday, the Justice Department said Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo Inc agreed to a settlement worth $31.5 million to resolve accusations they ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
One of the classic ways companies do websites promotions is an indirect method. They try and focus on a newsworthy aspect of the website, and they take out press releases and contact the media for free publicity. This seems to be the preferred way, in fact, for many ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
It comes as no surprise that the founder of Wikipedia is looking to diversify their website offerings and the next service being tested by them is search.
Unlike other search engines, the Wikia search engine will allow users to "improve" the engine by working collectively, much the same way Wikipedia allows ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Google hasn't been a huge player in the social space, but they're hoping to change that with their new OpenSocial platform, which looks to tie together distinct social networking platform APIs into one centralized system.
"The proliferation of unique APIs across dozens of social Web sites is forcing developers ...
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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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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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