Yahoo Stepping Lightly Against Google, Microsoft
As one of the biggest brands on the Internet, Yahoo’s competitors envy the traffic Yahoo receives. On Wall Street, analysts only see gridlock. read more More: continued here yahoo stepping lightly against google microsoft
Yahoo Apologizes For Merchant Outage
The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform.Cyber Monday may as well have been a day where Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers, and Jason Voorhees all stopped by Yahoo’s small business operations and killed various merchants in graphic and creative ways. We will give Yahoo’s Rich [...]
Google Shares Reach Record High
Shares of several major Internet companies were up Monday. With Google and Expedia reaching all time record highs. Google Shares Reach Record High Google shares were up as much as $17.08, or 3 percent, to $584.35 during trading and online travel site Expedia saw its shares rise a $1.60 or 5 percent, to $33.48 during [...]
PeopleJam Improves Through Content Deals
If you want to lead a better life, PeopleJam is a social network that’s gung-ho about helping you achieve that goal. And Stream4 Media and Nightingale-Conant are presumably interested, as well, since they’ve just signed content deals with PeopleJam. Stream4 Media, a video company, is stepping forward “with more than 500 episodes of programming that [...]
Veveo Obtains $14 Million For Mobile Search
Google, Yahoo, even AOL – everybody’s trying to get into the mobile market, and compared to those giants, a little company called Veveo might not appear to have much of a chance. Veveo’s got around $28 million to use as a stepping stone, however. Half of that sum is effectively old news, public knowledge. The [...]
MSN To Ban Competitor Keyword Use In Ad Copy
It’s interesting how Google handles potential litigation. While its rivals are sidestepping it where they can (it seems), Google invites it. Just as Google is sued (again) for allowing competitor trademark keyword bids, Microsoft is set to disallow such practices. Microsoft follows Yahoo by updating its competitor keyword policy. Yahoo was relatively swift about it, [...]
Microsoft Elbows Google Aside For EA Deal
Microsoft’s purchase of Massive, an in-game advertising company, and some executive-swapping, enabled it to beat Google and other competitors for the EA contract.Madden NFL, NASCAR, and Tiger Woods Golf will be among the titles delivering ads from Microsoft’s Massive network. Microsoft needed all the resources it could muster to beat the field and grab the [...]
Google Translate Gains Dictionary Info
I’ve taken classes in Spanish, French, and Latin (not by choice), and each of them sent people scrambling for various translation aids. Unfortunately, many of those aids were horrible (“the cow climbs up the tree”). Now Google’s stepping forward – alas, a little late for me – with new dictionary translations for Google Translate. “Google’s [...]
Skrenta Steps Down at Topix
Rich Skrenta, CEO of news aggregator and local search site Topix since its launch five years ago, is stepping down from his position, but retain a seat on Topix’s board. He’ll be succeeded by Chris Tolles, who has been VP of marketing at Topix since 2004, and who worked with Skrenta to build the Open [...]
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