Microsoft’s Yahoo bid would split company – report

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

Nikkei down 0.8% on property firms, Yahoo stumbles

Reuters – USA
O: Quote, Profile, Research) search business but not Yahoo Japan. [ID:nN19435039] But steelmakers were bought after Nippon Steel Corp (5401. …

Microsoft’s Yahoo bid would split company – report
MarketWatch – USA
s alternative to an outright acquisition of Yahoo Inc. would have Yahoo split up and sell off its strategically valuable Asian assets, according to a report …

Yahoo, WPP enter into partnership
DM News – New York,NY,USA
Yahoo and the WPP Group have announced a multiyear strategic partnership, designed to give group agencies WPP Digital, GroupM and 24/7 Real Media the …

Microsoft plan said to call for Yahoo split
Seattle Times – United States
Microsoft has proposed slicing up Yahoo in a deal unlikely to win over Yahoo, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Under the proposed breakup, …

Microsoft and Yahoo! continue on-off romance
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Microsoft has re-opened talks with troubled internet company Yahoo! in an attempt to construct some form of a workable partnership after the software …

Microsoft Eyes Yahoo’s Ad Business
Wall Street Journal – USA
s proposed alternative to acquiring Yahoo Inc. would involve a breakup of the Internet giant that people close to Yahoo said is unlikely to win favor with …

Google or Microsoft: Yahoo Should Pick Both

New York Times – United States
By Saul Hansell Yahoo might well be able to have its Google cake and eat Microsoft’s market share too. Faced with the prospect that Yahoo might give some of …

Google may be Yahoo’s white knight
guardian.co.uk – UK
Google is still interested in a tie-up with Yahoo in the lucrative internet search market, according to Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin, in a move that …

Partial Microsoft-Yahoo deal won’t appease investors
Computerworld – Oslo,Oslo,Norway
The big money interests behind the scenes of the Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. drama – or in the case of activist investor, Carl Icahn, stridently in front …

Microsoft and Yahoo talking on new deal
Scotsman – United Kingdom
By Jane Bradley MICROSOFT is understood to be contemplating a deal with Yahoo that would not involve a full takeover of the firm – just two weeks after its …

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It’s Like Dating, but More Annoying

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

It’s Like Dating, but More Annoying
FOXBusiness – USA
I almost believe they will ditch MSN and just go with the Yahoo brand. Or, maybe MSN Yahoo actually rolls off the tongue? Carl Icahn is no fool, …

BACK IN CONTROL?: Janet Jackson, New Kids tours include dates here
San Diego Union Tribune – United States
No word yet on when tickets go on sale for the Jackson and Not-Remotely-New-Kids concerts, although fans who sign up for MSN accounts will have first crack …

Internet & Technology
Investor’s Business Daily (subscription) – USA
(GOOG) It also would prefer not to be in the content creation business with its MSN consumer Web sites. Analysts say Microsoft could structure a deal to …

Expert Says New Movie Implies Intimacy That’s Not Happening
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Sex expert and registered nurse, Mary Jo Fay, RN, MSN, author of “Please Dear, Not Tonight: The Truth About Women and Sex” explains how America may think …

Is The MSN And Yahoo! Love Match Back On
FinancialAdvice.co.uk – London,UK
After a great deal of disbelief in the markets after MSN and Yahoo! recently announced that takeover / merger talks were over it seems that pressure from …

Microsoft revives partnership talks with Yahoo!
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Executives in MSN, Microsoft’s floundering online division, discussed a range of alternatives last year that included combining MSN with Yahoo! in a joint …

Don Polson: Information manipulation on war reporting
Red Bluff Daily News – Red Bluff,CA,USA
The next example does the same thing regarding MSN reporting in 2003, that “the situation in Iraq was deteriorating.” We’re to believe that journalists were …

Search amNY.com Web enhanced by
amNewYork – New York,USA
Senior executives in MSN, Microsoft’s floundering online division, last year discussed a range of alternatives that included an MSN-Yahoo joint venture, …

ABC Gives Web Moms A Chance At The Tube
Silicon Alley Insider – New York,NY,USA
But ABC is giving it another shot with “In The Motherhood,” which is produced by Mindshare Entertainment (the branded entertainment unit of WPP) for MSN. …

Nursing Spectrum Announces Nursing Excellence Finalists
Nurse.com – Falls Church,VA,USA
Jeanne Maguire, RN, MSN, is chief nursing officer/vice president of patient care services at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. …

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PayPal flaw raises questions about EV-SSL

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

PayPal flaw raises questions about EV-SSL
Computerworld – Oslo,Oslo,Norway
eBay’s PayPal has acknowledged a serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that could be used to steal user credentials or cookies. …

PayPal priority a question of choice
The Sheet – Australia
So, here’s the case for eBay and PayPal, not that the firm has embraced the largely libertarian arguments that seem to most strongly support their proposal. …

PayPal plugs cross-site scripting hole that sidestepped stronger …
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
By Gregg Keizer May 19, 2008 (Computerworld) Online payment provider PayPal has patched a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability that a Finnish …

Online traders suffer from PayPal outage
ComputerWeekly.com – UK
Online traders have been hit by a glitch in PayPal’s payment verification system, reports The Register. Problems with the system started at the end of last …

PayPal Founder Peter Thiel Says Think Contrarily, Act Warily
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
But entrepreneurs need to remember that most contrarian ideas are wrong, the PayPal founder said. By Charles Babcock Contrarian thinking is a key to …

Protx offers customers PayPal option
Finextra – UK
Protx, the secure online payment service for credit card processing and PayPal, the world’s leading online payment system, today announced a partnership …

PayPal flaw raises questions about EV-SSL
Techworld.com – London,UK
By Matthew Broersma, Techworld.com eBay’s PayPal has acknowledged a serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that could be used to steal user credentials or …

PayPal Instant Payment Notification Glitch Resolved
Auctionbytes – USA
By Ina Steiner PayPal announced a glitch that had affected IPN (Instant Payment Notification) was resolved. Merchants use IPN to integrate their PayPal …

Cross-site scripting hole in Paypal casts doubt on EV-SSL

Current IT news from heise online – London,UK
A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the online bank Paypal which could allow malicious code injection, despite the site using an Extended …

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Alacra Launches Alacra Affiliate Widget

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

Alacra Launches Alacra Affiliate Widget
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Affiliate Program Widget Lets Bloggers, Websites Increase Ad Revenue While Opening New Sales Channels for Content Publishers. New York, NY (PRWEB) May 19, …

ShareASale Aids Decision on New York Affiliate Expulsion
AffiliateTip.com – Summit,NJ,USA
As I reported last week, Overstock.com is removing all New York affiliates from their affiliate program to avoid having online purchases by New York …

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Google Accepts Ad Tags in Push for Brand Dollars

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

GGoogle Opens AdSense To Third-Party Ads
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
For Google and its AdSense publishers, this means a larger advertising inventory and the potential to earn more money through the placement of those ads. …

What’s Up With Google?
Outside the Beltway – VA,USA
A few days ago, Google’s Adsense started taking quite a long time to generate reports that were previously instantaneous. Now, G-Mail is starting to display …
 

Google Accepts Ad Tags in Push for Brand Dollars
ClickZ News – New York,NY,USA
Advertisers that run ads through Google’s AdSense content network in North America now can serve them through Google’s DoubleClick system, …

Google starts third-party tracking on its ad network
InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USA
The new feature is available within Google’s AdSense content network and only for advertisers based in North America, according to a company blog post by …

Google to allow third-party ad-serving on AdSense
New Media Age – London,UK
Google is to allow third-party ad-serving across its AdSense network for the first time, the company has revealed. The announcement means companies will now …

Placement-Targeted Campaigns: Taming the Beast
Search Engine Watch – USA
… with a low quality score – an intentional “demerit” designed to inhibit “spammers” from deluging AdSense publisher sites with low-cost, low-quality ads. …

Industry Leader PointRoll to Serve Ads on the Google Content Network
Earthtimes (press release) – London,UK
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. , May 19 — PointRoll, the leading provider of rich media technology solutions, announced today that the company has joined with Google to …

Google Opens AdSense Network to Anyone Not Named “Yahoo” or …
Marketing Pilgrim – Raleigh,NC,USA
It appears Google’s not taking any chances when it comes to a possible Microsoft/Yahoo deal. The combination of the two rivals would certainly add some …

Google and Scientology cosy up
Agoravox – Paris,France
We use Google AdSense, which picks ads based on the text of a given page. Advertisers purchase keywords, and the more frequently those words are used, …

Google Enforcing YouTube Copyright System
GameSHOUT – USA
Google may have bought a real bucket of worms when they bought YouTube but they don’t seem to think so. Though they have faced lawsuits for disregard of …

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Search Engine Optimization Specialist Jori Ford Selected for …

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

How to Fix Your Brand’s Rep
BusinessWeek – USA
His company creates a series of Web portals and positive content for its clients, and then uses search engine optimization techniques to drive those links …

Search Engine Optimization Specialist Jori Ford Selected for …
PR.com (press release) – Levittown,NY,USA
Chicago photographer, Anthony Tahlier, selects local Chicago search engine optimization specialist Jori Ford for the SEO redesign of www.anthonytahlier.com …

Editor’s Desk: Readers on Search, Ads, and Buffett
CNBC – Englewood Cliffs,NJ,USA
A number of you don’t think much of my search engine optimization post. Either you think I’m a dope when it comes to methodology or I’m hopelessly out of …

Could you have a career in Search Engine Optimization?
TechRepublic – Louisville,KY,USA
And then we create whole careers around the science of Search Engine Optimization. (That’s SEO if you’re hip.) Companies have begun hiring people to tweak …

SEO is Like a Box of Chocolates
StraightUpSearch – Lake Leelanau,MI,USA
… that natural search engine rankings are curiously unpredictable things is just something that comes with the territory of search engine optimization. …

10 Fundamental Tips To Improve Your SEO
Search Engine Land – Redding,CT,USA
For this article, I’ll follow up Matt’s advice with ten tips to help you develop a more effective Search engine optimization (SEO) campaign. …

Summaries for Search Engine Optimized (SEO) press releases should …
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
But influencers, bloggers and the media do search newswires for news on “Search Engine Optimization” and “SEO”. Over time, this release will also be indexed …

Bayshore Solutions Designs SEO Friendly Site for Castion
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Tampa, FL (PRWEB) May 19, 2008 — Web site design and search engine optimization provider Bayshore Solutions teamed with Castion to develop the wastewater …

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Google starts third-party tracking on its ad network

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

Google starts third-party tracking on its ad network
Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA
Until now, the only way advertisers could track their ads was through Google’s AdWords reports, because Google didn’t have a process for reviewing ads to …

Inmodify Inc President Joshua Daniel Smith Uses AdWords to Market …
PR.com (press release) – Levittown,NY,USA
Using the Google’s AdWords to target my readers at the point of interest far surpasses traditional direct mail. The response has been phenomenal. …

Yahoo Stronger Without Search? Learning From AOL Model
Search Engine Journal – USA
The company will probably contract its search out to Microsoft, or even use Google to fuel its AdWords, while the company becomes more efficient in social, …

Opening our content network to third parties
Blog d’AdmiNet (Communiqués de presse) – France
… including rich media ads, across the Google content network through AdWords, giving them more options, flexibility and control over their campaigns. …

Google opens ad network to outsiders
CNet News.com Blog – USA
… across the Google content network through AdWords, giving them more options, flexibility and control over their campaigns,” said Rajas Moonka, …

Google AdWords “Automatic Matching” Beta To Expand Tomorrow
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
The very controversial Google AdWords Automatic Matching feature has been confirmed to be expanding to other advertisers as early as tomorrow. …

Google Enables Third Party Tracking For Content Network
Search Engine Land – Redding,CT,USA
In the past, the only way to track your impression data was to trust Google’s AdWords reports. Now, it appears you can use third party tags to track content …

HitTail Launches HitTail Premium, the Easiest Way to Get Into PPC …
Primenewswire (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
These suggestions can be exported directly into an AdWords campaign from the HitTail interface, simplifying the process of capitalizing on long tail terms …

Benefits of Capitalized Letters in URLs
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
A few people have experimented with capitalized letters (also known as Pascal Casing) and have determined that it helps with Google AdWords through A/B …

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Microsoft admits it is lagging in fight for online advertising …

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

Microsoft admits it is lagging in fight for online advertising …
Independent – London,England,UK
Sarah Friar, analyst at Goldman Sachs, told clients that Microsoft still needs Yahoo to “kick-start” its online business.

Microsoft proposes alternative deal to Yahoo
guardian.co.uk – UK
… Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s platform and services division, said the company must strengthen its online business regardless of how talks …

Microsoft, Yahoo mulling deal
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
But analyst Rob Sanderson of American Technology Research said Microsoft would probably prefer to buy or partner with Yahoo, since Yahoo’s online business …

Home Based Business Mentoring Can Be Vital Ingredient In Success …
WebWire (press release) – Atlanta,GA,USA
Home based business mentoring can be a good foundation for developing your business if your mentor is a true expert in online marketing. …

ACI signs Sterling Savings Bank and Empire National Bank
Finextra – UK
… today announced that Sterling Savings Bank has selected ACI Enterprise Banker as the single product solution for its online business banking customers. …

Epik Partners with Google Analytics(TM) and Champlain College to …
Earthtimes (press release) – London,UK
Epik’s solutions include website analysis, A/B and multivariate testing, user experience optimization and online business strategy. …

“Discover Logistics” Online Business Logistics Simulation Game …
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
BONN, Germany (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) May 19, 2008 — DHL, the world’s leading express delivery and logistics company, recently launched its …

Sterling Savings Bank Consolidates Online Business Banking with …
Primenewswire (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
… announced that Sterling Savings Bank has selected ACI Enterprise Banker(tm) as the single product solution for its online business banking customers. …

OpSec Security Acquires P4M GmbH to Extend Online Business
TMCnet – USA
By Anuradha Shukla OpSec Security, Inc. (“OpSec”), a division of OpSec Security Group, today reportedly acquired P4M GmbH, a Munich, Germany-based company …

Epik Partners with Google Analytics(TM) and Champlain College to …
Centre Daily Times – Centre,PA,USA
Epik’s solutions include website analysis, A/B and multivariate testing, user experience optimization and online business strategy. …

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Oddschecker appoints ad serving firm Mediaplex

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

Oddschecker appoints ad serving firm Mediaplex
New Media Age – London,UK
Oddschecker is also looking to appoint ValueClick’s Commission Junction, to handle its affiliate marketing. Caitlin Hanks, marketing manager at Oddschecker, …

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Amazon.com to open Pa. distribution center

May 20th, 2008 Administrator

Monday’s Tech Winners & Losers: Amazon.com
TheStreet.com – USA
Shares of Amazon.com soared $5.83, or 7.6%, to $82.29 after James Mitchell, an analyst at Goldman Sachs added the stock to the firm’s ‘Americas Conviction …

Amazon.com to open Pa. distribution center
BusinessWeek – USA
Online retail giant Amazon.com, with up to $1.75 million in help from taxpayers, plans to

Movers roundup: Amazon.com, Pacific Ethanol
Forbes – NY,USA
AP 05.19.08, 3:41 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) – Amazon.com Inc. (nasdaq: AMZN – news – people )

Amazon to Locate New Distribution Center in Hazleton, PA
WELT ONLINE – Germany
Global online retailer Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today it will open a new fulfillment center here, creating more than 1100 jobs in the next …

Amazon.com says it will Locate New Distribution Center in Hazleton …
RTT News – Williamsville,NY,USA
(RTTNews) – Amazon.com (AMZN: News, Chart, Quote ) on Monday said it would locate its latest fulfillment center, which would be operated by Amazon.com DEDC …

Breaking News: Amazon.com center could bring 1100 jobs to Humboldt …
Citizens Voice – Wilkes-Barre,PA,USA
By Nicholas Sohr, Staff Writer Amazon.com and state officials announced Monday a $1.75

Amazon.com Finishes At Multi-Week High
RTT News – Williamsville,NY,USA
(RTTNews) – Amazon.com (AMZN: News, Chart, Quote ) gapped open higher and has continued to climb throughout the first half of Monday’s trading, …

The Early Edge: Amazon.com, Biovail, ConocoPhillips, and Lehman …
Schaeffers Research – Cincinnati,OH,USA
by Mark Fightmaster (mfightmaster@sir-inc.com) 5/19/2008 9:11 AM Today’s headlines include an upgrade for Amazon.com (AMZN), a Biovail (BVF) subsidiary …

Amazon.com (AMZN) NewsBite – AMZN Lifted by Upgrade
Market Intelligence Center – Charlottesville,VA,USA
Amazon.com (AMZN) opened at 79.01. So far today, the stock has hit a low of 78.86 and a high of 79.90. AMZN is now trading at 79.81, up 3.35 (4.24%). …

Amazon Shares Rise After Goldman Adds to `Conviction Buy’ List
Bloomberg – USA
By Heather Burke and Adam Haigh May 19 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, rose the most in a month in Nasdaq trading …

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