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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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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Today yahoo launched their enhanced search engine that will give a helping hand to the weary surfer that might need some help finding more information on a subject.
One of the new features is a drop down menu that can give you other related search queries that you might be ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Today Telefonica and Yahoo announced a joint venture to bring Yahoo services to 100 million mobile users.
Under the terms of the agreement, Madrid-based Telefonica's local subsidiaries will offer Sunnyvale-based Yahoo as the search engine partner on their mobile portals in Ireland, Latin America and the U.K.
Telefonica will also integrate ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Today is the day for Google to face the United States Senate concerning the purchase of the online advertising company, DoubleClick. This "merger" has been brought under question by groups that are concerned with user privacy and anti-trust issues.
David Drummond, the Senior VP for Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Here's something that I can get behind. Companies and people that are conscious about our environment and are always looking for ways to reduce the amount of energy (in the form of gas, electricity or other sources of power) that they use. That is just what Google is boasting ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
After hearing some not so pleasant feedback on their decision to close their video division, Google has come up with a different way to end relations with subscribers of the video service.
Here is Google's new plan:
* Issuing a full refund -- as a credit card ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Time warner was the latest company to join into the heady shoppers for online advertising businesses. Federal regulators recently approved the purchase of Tacoda.
Tacoda provides targeted ads based on a web surfers browsing habits. They are based in New York.
Terms of the purchase weren't disclosed and the company will become ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Not one to rest on their laurels, Google recently announced that they were testing some different ad serving platforms.
I actually noticed an occurrence or two of these ad formats on a website I visit. Unfortunately, I didn't screen capture them, but if I happen to see them again I'll ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
Google recently announced that they are adding the city of Houston to their roster of Streetviews. This new feature at Google Maps allows web visitors to take a look at pictures that were snapped by cars and vans equipped with Google cameras as they drove down local streets.
Of ...
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