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Eloqua: Print ad spend down as online increases
BizReport - USA
Just under one-quarter (23%) revealed they would increase spending on platforms like Google AdWords. Over the next three years, mobile, social and online …

Bigmouthmedia research reveals rise of Google Phishing
openPR (press release) - Hamburg,Germany
(openPR) - Bigmouthmedia has warned that online fraudsters are targeting Google AdWords users in an attempt to steal internet traffic and gain access to the …

Search Logic plc Launches Speed Ferries Affiliate Campaign
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro
… ‘We have seen continued and increasing returns with the SpeedFerries online campaign through existing channels such as Google Adwords, PPA, and Yahoo! …

Durbin bashes Yahoo, Google operations in China
Foreign Policy (subscription) - USA
Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson reports on today’s hearing before Durbin’s Judiciary subcommittee: Yahoo, Google, and Cisco all trekked over to the Senate …

Cisco Systems denies online censorship role in China
The Associated Press -
The subcommittee heard testimony from Cisco, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. executives about how US Internet and technology companies do business with certain …

Senators grill tech companies on aiding Chinese censorship
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) WASHINGTON - Senators and human rights advocates told Google, Yahoo and Cisco Systems on Tuesday that they need to do more to protect …

Microsoft shares may stay cheap: Barron’s
Reuters - USA
O: Quote, Profile, Research) are likely to remain at current levels until its bid to buy Yahoo in whole or part is resolved, said an article in the May 26 …

UPDATE: IDC analyst predicts software vendor Microsoft will buy …
IT Vendors Directory - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
[NOTE: This article updates a previous story on the fact that Yahoo postponed its annual meeting till the end of July. The original story also mentioned the …

Is Yahoo Gouging For Domain Registrations?
Search Engine Watch - USA
A thread over at WebmasterWorld has reported that Yahoo will be increasing its charges for domain registration as of July 1, 2008 to $34.95. …

Profiting from any outcome of the Microsoft/Yahoo deal
Stockhouse - Vancouver,BC,Canada
In an effort to help friends and shareholders of the Internet company Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO, Stock Forum), he has put himself in the middle with a huge stake …

Interview mit Eric Schmidt: Die nächste große Welle ist das mobile …
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - Frankfurt,Germany
Marco Börries from Yahoo said, android is just Windows Mobile on Linux. Eric Schmidt: This comparison is not correct. Marco should know better. …

Yahoo! saga deepens: annual meeting postponed!
iTWire - Australia
by Stephen Withers Microsoft certainly has churned up the waters over at Yahoo! HQ, with the latest fallout seeing the company’s annual meeting delayed by …

The real sticking point with Microsoft/Yahoo!
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Microsoft’s desperate struggle to acquire all or part of Yahoo! has gotten hung up not on disagreement over a fair price for the latter’s online advertising …

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Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Computerworld UK staff HONG KONG — Alibaba.com Ltd. and Intel Corp. plan to jointly develop a computer designed to help small and midsize Chinese …

Alibaba Launches Financing Platform For Online Businesses
ChinaTechNews.com - Beijing,China
Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba has announced an initiative to launch an online platform to help small and medium enterprises in China solve their …

Journalists’ Views on Social-Media’s Influence on Reporting Differ …
Marketing Vox News - USA
Of the 10 sites tested, the most popular were TMZ, Perez Hilton, and MSN Lifestyle. 29 percent of reporters said they checked TMZ at least several times a …

Girl Banned from Playing with the Boys
ToTheCenter.com - Malverne,NY,USA
A 12-year old female basketball player, from Beaverton, Ore., has been banned from playing in a boys’ youth basketball league, according to MSN.com. …

Live Earth, or Dying Earth?
Quill - Brandon,MB,Canada
Even the aforementioned MSN website played into the media extravaganza, no doubt reaping from the benefits of record online attendance. …

Idol pursuits
South China Morning Post (subscription) - Hong Kong
“All we need to do is upload our photos and put our MSN contacts on the internet,” she says. After a couple of months, Tang now charges HK$200 an hour for a …

Women who slay us
AfterEllen.com - USA
But MSN Movies currently has a count down of film’s famous fatale femmes, including The Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz, Maleficent of Sleeping Beauty …

Cannes Lions Presents: Creative Best Practice for In-Game …
TAXI Design Network - New York,NY,USA
Clients as diverse as P&G, Intel, GM, MTV, T-Mobile and Adidas are already active in the space and companies including NBC, MSN and WPP have made …

We ‘Guardians’ Need to Relax a Little
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
The article, which appeared April 17 on MSN Money, said that guardians are likely to experience anxiety, obsessive thoughts and extreme pessimism when they …

Money tips for students
iAfrica.com - Cape Town,South Africa
Phoning is expensive, but there are many free communication options including MSN messenger and Skype. Bing. You’re familiar with MXit, but have you heard …

Staff development programme
Newindpress - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
KOLLAM: A 10-day staff development programme on revitalisation in management teaching will be held at the MSN Institute of Management and Technology, …

Oil’s slippery incline
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
That was the news from MSN Money, Aug. 20, 2004. Now we’re in the range of $130 a barrel, the price of gasoline is approaching $4, up 20 percent from last …

Bingness.com Brings the Power of Joint Ventures to Online Businesses
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro
New online businesses don’t realize the importance of partnerships and joint ventures because it is so easy to fall prey to the hype that online business is …

Instant Business Loans- A Pristine Financial Tool for Entrepreneurs
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
Now any individual can source online business loans by just logging on the net. There are online lenders who are providing business loans which save a …

Online sales tools you can afford
Financial Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
GettyOne of the best-known tools in customer relationship management area is Salesforce.com. For small businesses, increasing sales can be a big challenge. …

Website to help you sell tickets
WCBD-TV - Mt. Pleasant,SC,USA
Chris says if you’re launching an online business, consider this. “But I think that for someone who’s just starting, sort of having a handle on the …
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Business Listings: The Top 5 Online Business Marketplaces
NuWire Investor - Bellevue,WA,USA
NuWire reviewed some of the big names among online business listing sites, and selected its Top 5 based on four primary factors: volume of web traffic and …

UTV launches digital media arm
Sify - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
In the online business space, UTV New Media launched utvi.com, the business website for UTV’s English business news channel. …

Starting An Internet Business
Gather.com - Boston,MA,USA
Thanks to a range of online services and applications, it is now easy to establish the framework for an online business to facilitate marketing, sales, …

Corpendo look to expand Kiwi firms’ business in the Pacific
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
… reach it’s potential internationally” - end Corpendo are in the business of developing online business tools: websites, contact management databases, …

SMEs’ exposure to IT main focus of ictQATAR: official
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
Another major ictQATAR initiative is an online business directory which would be launched in early 2009. While businesses can easily identify its customer …

Making online networking work for your business
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
Although blatant promotion is a big no-no in the world of online business networking, you still need to promote your business somehow. …

Latent Semantic Indexing and SEO
Promotion World (press release) - San Diego,CA,USA
Latent Semantic Indexing, LSI is a topic that is not well known to Search Engine Optimization executives. Since, the concept is not clear more myths than …

Search Engine Optimization Specialist Jori Ford Selected for …
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro
Anthony Tahlier, top Chicago photographer, selects Chicago search engine optimization specialist, Jori Ford, for the redesign and search engine optimization …

Online Retailer Shortcuts: Automating Product Feeds to Multiple …
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro
Studies indicate that they also convert at a higher rate than standard search engines and enhance search engine optimization efforts. …

Sales tax or no sales tax: An online dilemma
PennLive.com - Harrisburg,PA,USA
But if you order the same book or computer from Seattle-based Amazon.com and have it shipped to your midstate home, you aren’t charged the tax. …

FAQ: XP deathwatch, T minus 5 weeks
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
In fact, we’ve started tracking retail availability and pricing at three popular online technology outlets — Amazon.com, Buy.com and Newegg.com — to gauge …

Turning the tables
Schenectady Gazette - Schenectady,NY,USA
Think of it like Amazon.com’s “People who bought this book also bought …” section. http://www.responsibilityproject.com/blog/ - This blog is really …

Marty Schupak & the Youth Sports Club have agreed to submit all …
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
In an agreement with Amazon.com, all of Marty Schupak’s videos will be available in the Amazon Unbox program. Schupak said “”Video downloading is here to …

May 26: Amazon’s #1 Selling HDTV
TVPredictions.com (press release) - USA
Note: Amazon.com prices change regularly due to supply and demand. For more information on this Amazon offer, please click: Amazon. For more high-def news, …

Amazon.com policy prompts legal action
Charleston Post Courier - Charleston,SC,USA
Amazon.com was drawn into a legal battle last week over a policy that would funnel more business to BookSurge, its Charleston-based self-publishing unit. …

Old Media Still Needs to Get Over its Control Issues
TechCrunch - Atherton,CA,USA
It brings in all of $400 a month in AdSense revenues, but he’s getting $7 CPMs. Best of all, he lets the community that has gathered around it contribute …

Microsoft’s cashback scheme tied to ‘king of search’ dreams
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Ireland
… ads on AdSense, it is hoped that the ‘cost per acquisition’ model of the new Windows Live Search cashback programme will give it an edge with merchants. …

Dubious ads in Free Software Magazine
Free Software Magazine - USA
We currently use two ad networks, IDG and Adsense, and I don’t have any way to figure out which one is giving problems. In any case, having worked with both …

Google: Viacom’s YouTube lawsuit threatens DMCA
ZDNet - USA
Google’s response–you’re forgiven if you are shocked that Viacom and Google haven’t settled yet–denies a lot and acknowledges a few basic facts, …

Google Maps Already Promoting Google Ocean?
Gizmodo Australia - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Remember Google’s decision to launch ocean mapping? Well, now we know why. It appears that Google Maps is recommending people Kayak their way from Canada to …

Google challenge winners give Android thumbs-up
VentureBeat - Fremont,CA,USA
Two weeks ago Google announced the first-round winners of its two-round Android Developer Challenge (ADC). The contest, which is promising a total of $10 …

Google says Viacom’s suit ‘threatens’ Net
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Google says the threat comes from Viacom’s attempt to make sites’ hosts liable for what people post. Google, by the way, has said this suit will only be …

Google: Viacom’s YouTube suit threatens freedom
The Associated Press -
In papers submitted to a judge late Friday, Google said YouTube “goes far beyond its legal obligations in assisting content owners to protect their works. …

Passengers Can Google City Transport
The Moscow Times - Russia
Google opened a web site Monday that promises to take some of the mystery out of navigating Moscow’s public transportation system. …
 

Microsoft challenges Google with an alternative search ad model
Promotion World (press release) - San Diego,CA,USA
Anyway, it is a great move for Microsoft and we will see soon how hard Microsoft will hit Google and what portion from the advertising market the tech giant …

Earthscape: Google Earth alternative for iPhone
iPhone World - Montreal,QC,Canada
The app is actually Google Earth Port for the iPhone, and will be launched once the App Store goes live. You can do mostly everything with this app what you …

Google Earth now has 3-D Dallas
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
It’s not quite as good as the virtual Boston and San Francisco that launched along with the newest version of Google Earth, but it’s pretty thorough across …

Welcome to Google Earth
Times Online - UK
Google so dominates the internet industry that it’s hard to imagine how it could become even more powerful, yet a series of events over the past few weeks …

Paypal broken for ten days - costing merchants a fortune
TECH.BLORGE.com - Sydney,Australia
By Dave Parrack Paypal has become a way of life for many, with everyone from eBay users (naturally) to self-employed people using it as a simple and …

PayPal a minnow in online payments
The Sheet - Australia
From the middle of June, eBay merchants must accept payments either through PayPal directly or with a credit card, but with PayPal as the payment processor. …

Monday, 26 May 2008
Casino Beacon - Weobley,Herefordshire,UK
We’ll be covering the more popular PayPal soon. Most online casinos can’t accept PayPal because eBay took over PayPal and fecked things up for most online …

eBay Australia Files Response to PayPal-Only Policy Complaints
Auctionbytes - USA
By Ina Steiner eBay Australia has filed its response to submissions to the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) regarding its PayPal-only …

My new dream
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
After reading an article in Wired magazine about a new online payments firm called PayPal, he sent an email inquiry about a job. …

After hitting the jackpot, tech entrepreneurs school start-ups at …
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Jawed Karim, who lucked out as co-founder of YouTube Inc. and an early employee of PayPal Inc., is taking part in a unique Silicon Valley tradition: helping …

For PayPal, it is only the beginning
Globes - Rishon Le-Zion,Israel
Scott Thompson, president of online payment solutions provider PayPal was in Israel this week to attend the IVA conference in Tel Aviv. …