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Archive for October, 2008
The Push To Gag The Internet
Oct 31st
| The Push To Gag The Internet Same Same – Sydney,NSW,Australia “We are talking about mandatory blocking, where possible, of illegal material,†Senator Stephen Conroy, the Broadband, Communications, and Digital Economy … |
Online Business
| Popular Online Business Ideas: Affiliate Marketing American Chronicle – Beverly Hills,CA,USA As most of the programs are free to join is another reason why affiliate marketing is such a popular online business idea. From the merchant’s point of view … |
| The Planet Launches Direct Attached Storage MarketWatch – USA It also outperforms SCSI devices, operating at 3Gbps. "Web sites are the lifeblood of every company that operates an online business, so having a high-speed … |
| Fraud hits number of small business online transactions WalesOnline – United Kingdom … the perceived threat posed to business by online fraudsters was cited by 35% of respondents as the main reason for keeping online business to a minimum. … |
| Small tweaks could boost your online sales, says business expert NewDesignWorld (press release) – Oxford,Oxfordshire,UK Senior Retail Strategist at bigmouthmedia, Clark discusses a number of ecommerce tips and secrets on his latest business TV show on online business TV … |
| Tatyana Gann, Nashville Business Owner, Gives Credit For Her … WebWire (press release) – Atlanta,GA,USA Instant Income System as any business requires three things: desire to be educated properly in building an online business, developing relationships with … |
| Spanish-language School Offers Free Content to Attract Business Portada Magazine – New York,NY,USA In-country language learning program Don Quijote is taking an interesting approach with its online business development strategy: It is now offering free, … |
| Small Business Owners Optimistic, Yet Realistic Despite Economy WELT ONLINE – Germany Small business owners remain relatively optimistic – yet realistic – about opportunities and growth for their businesses, despite tough economic conditions. … |
| E-commerce tech terms you should know CBC.ca – Toronto,Ontario,Canada "About 70 per cent of our online business comes through affiliates," said Rebecca Matter, director of online marketing for American Writers and Artists, … |
| ComEd Provides Relief for Small Businesses With Big Energy Bills CNNMoney.com (press release) – USA All ComEd business customers can utilize the online Business Energy Analysis Tool to learn more about how their business uses energy. … |
| Small Business Owners Optimistic, Yet Realistic Despite Economy MarketWatch – USA MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Small business owners remain relatively optimistic — yet realistic — about opportunities and growth … |
| Gaia Online Poll Finds Obama Has Captured Youth Support MarketWatch – USA SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 7 million teens and young adults, today announced the … |
| Software Magazine Again Ranks Omniture as One of the World’s Top … CNNMoney.com – USA "As the demand for Omniture’s online business optimization software has grown, we believe our employees have matched that demand with superior development, … |
Antiviral ‘Scareware’ Just One More Intruder
Oct 31st
| Antiviral ‘Scareware’ Just One More Intruder New York Times – United States Mr. Stewart describes the affiliate program as a sophisticated, automated and highly profitable system intended to efficiently infect millions of computers. … |
| Income Access Nominated for Three CAP Awards PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA These nominations include Best Casino Affiliate Program, Best Overall Affiliate Program, and Best iGaming affiliate Network. In its second year, … |
| iGaming Marketing Forum to Feature Income Access Director of … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA At the iGaming Marketing Forum, Ms. Wolde Gabriel will deliver a presentation on how operators can leverage the full potential of their affiliate program. … |
| Market Health Brings Smiles to Thousands of Health and Beauty … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA The Teeth Whiten Tipsâ„¢ teeth whitening affiliate program launched last Monday, October 20, and is now part of the largest integrated online marketing … |
| Virgin Games Set To Scoop More Industry Awards – Virgin Games … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA The Virgin Games’ Affiliate program is run by Virgin Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin.com Ltd. Virgin Games Affiliates has been in operation since … |
| Max Your Affiliate Income With Gaming Revenues PRLog.Org (press release) – Bucuresti,Romania PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 30, 2008 – Vicon Media, the company which owns and operates the new Gaming Revenues Affiliate program consists of highly … |
| Summit, Forsyth employee credit unions unite The Business Journal … Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA The merger will take place under Summit’s Credit Union Affiliate Program, and will give the 1400 members of the Forsyth organization access to Summit’s … |
| For Sale by Owner Wholesale Property Website Launches Affiliate … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA DiscountedProperties.com has just launched an affiliate program where it will pay its "partners" a referral fee for any subscriptions resulting from their … |
Agoda
Priceline Charges Less To Make More |
Alibaba debuts $30m global campaign |
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| Greater China’s Leading Interactive Advertising and Digital … Earthtimes (press release) – London,UK … Marketing LG Electronics Alvin Foo Head of China Nokia Ad Business Jiang Zhi QiangVP — Alibaba Group Alibaba Group (Alvin) Adrian Toy Regional Director … |
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Student NGOs, companies and CSR in China |
| Alibaba.com ends ads cooperation with Baidu China Knowledge Online – Singapore Oct. 31, 2008 (China Knowledge) – Alibaba.com<1688>, a leading B2B e-commerce portal in China, confirmed it has issued the termination letter to Baidu on … |
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| Baidu aims high for own on-line shopping website Xinhua – China An officer of Alibaba, which set up Taobao in 2003, said they welcomed competition when asked for comments on the move of Baidu. However, Taobao blocked the … |
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Alibaba pulls ads from ‘low-quality’ Baidu |
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| Alibaba.com Stops Advertising on Baidu.com Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA Spokesperson from the public relationship department of Alibaba.com says that they chose to end advertising on Baidu.com for the poor advertising … |
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Alibaba.com at the 104th Canton Fair (Day 3) |
Amazon
| "All PS3 Gold Box Event" today at Amazon.com Gaming Age Online – Seaford,NJ,USA Today is another of those fancy, schmancy Amazon.com All PS3 Gold Box deal days, and here’s the "deal". The Dead of the Day is the PlayStation Eye for … |
| Acer Aspire 5920-6329 Notebook CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA Amazon.com has Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch Mini Laptop for $325.99, after $74 savings. Buy.com has Lenovo 3000 N200 Notebook for $617.99, after $81.01 savings, … |
| Q&A with Spock.com’s Jay Bhatti BNET – San Francisco,Ca,USA For a laptop, you might go to Google and then go to Dell.com or Shopping.com or Amazon.com. BNET: So you want to be that second choice when someone is … |
| RIM BlackBerry Bold 9000 NetworkWorld.com – Southborough,MA,USA NBC.com’s home page loaded in 21 seconds, as did PCWorld.com; and Amazon.com loaded in 31 seconds. Wi-Fi performance impressed, too, with NBC.com loading in … |
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| Amazon.com book recommendations are LinkedIn Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA Now, the 30 million users worldwide will be able to share book recommendations through an application put up by Amazon.com. Other apps include business … |
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Soulfound “Is a Rock Band†Enters Amazon.com Digital Album Charts |
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| Should enterprises reconsider the cloud? InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USA Plus, Amazon.com provisions Microsoft Windows Server, Oracle Fusion middleware, three Oracle backup and data recovery tools, and the open source LAMP stack. … |
ClickBank
| ClickBank now accepts payments online in 13 currencies The Paypers (abonnement) – Amsterdam Airport,Noord Holland,Netherlands ClickBank , a US online digital products retailer, has added new features to its online platform. As a result, the retail network is to accept payments in … |
| ClickBank Adds New International Features to Its Online Platform Earthtimes (press release) – London,UK ClickBank’s upgraded transaction platform enables all interactions between the customer and ClickBank to be conducted in English, Spanish, … |
Commission Junction
| Calling in Sick at ValueClick Motley Fool – USA ValueClick owns the prestigious Commission Junction affiliate network and the Shopping.net comparison shopping site. If Google’s motto is "do no evil," then … |
eBay
| Sarah Palin doll to be auctioned for charity Washington Post – United States … candidates Barack Obama and John McCain and vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin will be auctioned on the eBay.com Web site. … |
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| The Sarah Palin Cabbage Patch Kid Doll For Sale On eBay NewsBlaze – Folsom,CA,USA By Robert Paul Reyes "For those that remember the ever popular Cabbage Patch Kids, there is a new doll that will soon be hitting eBay for charity. … |
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Google phone hits Australia via eBay |
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| Ebay Reveals Best, Worst Gifts For Holiday Season InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA eBay released results of a recent Opinion Research Corporation gift-giving survey of 3307 adults online during the first two weeks of October. … |
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| eBay joins war against illegal trade in ivory Business Daily Africa – Nairobi,Kenya The Internet site, eBay, the biggest commercial Website, has announced it will ban the sale of ivory products and is calling on all other Internet traders … |
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| Own a Piece of Lipizzaner History: Cement Block Auction Benefiting … MarketWatch – USA … will place the commemorative block of cement on eBay ( www.ebay.com) beginning on November 1 and concluding on Veteran’s Day, November 11th 2008. … |
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| eBay Watch: Cool Competitor Coming, Antique Aid, Hot Holiday Gifts ECommerce-Guide – United States By Vangie Beal New eBay competitor 4Sale4Now sets date for opening day and iTaggit helps boost antique item exposure. In eBay headlines this week, … |
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| The Prized and the Despised: New eBay Survey Reveals This Holiday … MarketWatch – USA According to a survey conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of eBay Inc. (EBAY: , , ) , neckties are the gift people most dread this holiday … |
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| eBay’s Paul Newman merchandise another egg for sellers to swallow EIN News (press release) – Netherlands New York, NY — Like Paul Newman eating 50 eggs in “Cool Hand Luke,” eBay’s buyers are asked to keep swallowing more punishment for the profit of others, … |
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| Nurse’s ‘naughty knickers’ were on eBay United Press International – USA LONDON, Oct. 28 (UPI) — A British nurse who used her hospital e-mail address to sell her underwear on eBay could be barred from hospital premises, … |
| Meg Whitman, Former CEO and President of eBay Addresses Crowd of … MarketWatch – USA She mentioned since her retirement from eBay earlier this year that she has been fundraising for Sen. John McCain’s campaign for president. … |
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| Book Review: eBay Business At Your Fingertips ECommerce-Guide – United States By Frank Fortunato On the surface, the eBay business situation looks grim. In early October eBay laid off 1600 employees, about 10 percent of its work force … |
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| eBay Feedback Could Get You Sued ITvoir – New Delhi,Delhi,India Case in point: A British businessman is now suing an eBay buyer for giving him a negative review on the auction site. Read more. … |
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| ideaEDGE, Inc. Welcomes Maynard Webb, Chairman and CEO of LiveOps … MarketWatch – USA today announced the appointment of Maynard Webb, Chairman and CEO of LiveOps, former COO of eBay, and former President of eBay Technologies to the Company’s … |
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MISS LEHMAN BROTHERS? TRY EBAY |
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| Zac Efron’s Showering Pics from ‘High School Musical 3′ Put on eBay AceShowbiz – USA Some original exclusive pictures of Zac Efron taking shower during the shooting of "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" are auctioned off on eBay. … |
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| The Sarah Palin Cabbage Patch Kid Doll For Sale On eBay American Chronicle – Beverly Hills,CA,USA For those that remember the ever popular Cabbage Patch Kids, there is a new doll that will soon be hitting eBay for charity. Four one-of-a-kind Cabbage … |
LinkShare
| E-commerce success is all in the delivery Computing – London,UK A recent report by affiliate marketing firm Linkshare found that shoppers are increasingly turning to the web for the best bargains or to do research before … |
PayPal
| PayPal giving away £10000 a week for ten weeks Easier (press release) – Chester,UK PayPal is giving away £10000 a week for 10 weeks running up to Christmas to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Anyone who buys from a retailer on PayPal’s … |
| Around the World, Consumers and Businesses Turn to VeriSign(R) for … MarketWatch – USA At eBay Live! in June, 689 attendees responded to a survey about their experiences with the PayPal Security Key, a type of VIP security credential that … |
| Around the World, Consumers and Businesses Turn to VeriSign(R) for … International Business Times – New York,NY,USA Membership in the VIP Network allows online businesses to use the same VIPcredentials on various other network members’ sites, including AOL, eBay,PayPal … |
| PayPal accounts compromised over 16 months; No response from eBay The Industry Standard – San Francisco,CA,USA Online payment service PayPal has had an exploit on its hands for at least 16 months and counting, and seems to have no resolution for it. … |
| How A Nigerian Steals Your Laptop The Consumerist – New York,NY,USA Kaynero01@yahoo.com emailed me and said he’d send an extra $150 through Paypal for shipping to his cousin, a student in Nigeria. 3. Paypal sent me an email … |
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| PayPal Unwraps 2008 Holiday Promotions MarketWatch – USA SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — PayPal today announced great deals and special offers for cash-strapped online shoppers this holiday … |
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Paypal – about as a secure as a chocolate teapot? |
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| eBay Buyer Incentives Are Not a Good Bargain Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USA Who wants a Paypal credit 2 months later? Not me. Paypal holds buyers’ Paypal credits for 60 days before releasing them. This author suspects Paypal is … |
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| Rising up in a limp economy Edmonton Sun – Alberta, Canada A recent survey sponsored by PayPal found that 60% of couples argue about money at least once a month, which is not surprising considering it’s the subject … |
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| AuctionBytes’ PayPal, eBay Glitch Report AuctionBytes Blog – Natick,MA,USA "The common denominator is they don’t have Paypal accounts," the seller wrote, and wanted to know if there were other sellers hearing the same problem from … |
Win Copies of Hunt & Moran’s Book “Search Engine Optimization, Inc.”
Oct 31st
| Win Copies of Hunt & Moran’s Book “Search Engine Optimization, Inc.†Marketing Pilgrim – Raleigh,NC,USA And, when I say huge, I mean 627 pages of search marketing awesomeness! We have 3 copies of the second edition of Mike Moran and Bill Hunt’s book Search … |
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| viaLanguage Teams with Anvil Media to Increase Search Engine … Newswire Today (press release) – London,UK “Your search engine optimization strategies shouldn’t stop at the border,†according to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media’s President. “This new service solves the … |
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SEO covered at PRSA International Conference in Detroit |
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| Dustin Luther BusinessWeek – USA … search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), project management, and lead conversation. Prior to starting 4realz.net Consulting, … |
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| Dallas SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Special $ 99.00 ONLY … EIN News (press release) – Netherlands By adopting ethical web 2.0 solutions including local SEO – Geo-targeted Search Engine Optimization – the Dallas SEO experts of 1Vizability have created … |
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| Link Building Tips For Add Site & Submit URL Link Directories Promotion World (press release) – San Diego,CA,USA Hopefully these link building and search engine optimization tips have helped. There are a wide number of great link building tips guides on the internet … |
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| Professional SEO Services – Viral SEO Services PRLog.Org (press release) – Bucuresti,Romania We are a professional search engine optimization services company based in the US providing ethical search engine optimization and Internet marketing … |
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| Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Manager Media – Hong Kong,Hong Kong SEOP Inc. is one of the most prestigious and trusted Search Engine Optimization (SEO) companies in the world. Founded in 2000, SEOP has a wide range of … |
| Business Scarce? Take a Closer Look at Your Website MarketWatch – USA Search Engine Optimization. "Eighty-six percent of consumers will use a search engine to find what they want," he says, "and Google has become part of pop … |
| What Are Internet Marketing Services? Promotion World (press release) – San Diego,CA,USA Any UK based company offering Internet marketing services, will tell you before hand about the actual timing of your search engine optimization campaign. … |
| Motorola looking to Google’s Android for help San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA Motorola is turning to Google for helping righting its troubled ship. The phone maker is streamlining its operating systems for its handsets and will make … |
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| Zimbra Joins Google, Microsoft in SAAS With Class eWeek – New York, NY The software is also an open source alternative to competing cloud computing products from Google and Microsoft. Even as Yahoo struggles to stay afloat with … |
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| What Does the Google Book Scan Settlement Mean for Viacom? Wall Street Journal Blogs – New York,NY,USA We’ll say at the outset that the answer, at least according to Google’s Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, is zippo. “I would not read anything into the … |
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| Report: Motorola, cutting jobs, looks to Google’s Android Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA Troubled Motorola Inc., which will report quarterly results on Thursday, is likely to cut jobs and narrow the focus of its mobile devices onto Google’s … |
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Yahoo-Google deal faces yet another round of concern |
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| Motorola ‘to use Google platform’ for showcase phones AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) — Motorola Inc. plans to use Android, Google’s open-source software platform, as the operating system for its showcase mobile phones, … |
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| Google, Yahoo and Microsoft team up to protect users’ privacy … San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA By Frank Davies WASHINGTON — Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, stung by criticism over their cooperation with Chinese censors and police, agreed Tuesday to … |
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| Key Congressman and Consumer Group Oppose Google-Yahoo Partnership Wired News – USA By Meghan Keane October 29, 2008 | 9:48:04 AMCategories: Advertising, Google, Yahoo At this point, it just seems mean spirited to start attacking Google and … |
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| Hesse says no Sprint logo on Google phones for now Kansas City Star – MO,USA But maybe he was a bit disrespectful of the Google CEO’s new baby. Indeed, techno scribes are trying to create a bit of a kerfuffle between Hesse, … |
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| Authors, publishers settle copyright suit against Google San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA Herkovic says that Google has copied hundreds of thousand of books from their libraries, which boast over 8.5 million books, for Google Books. … |
| In Google Book Settlement, Business Trumps Ideals PC World – USA In that way, Google, with its considerable financial and legal resources, could have blazed a trail on behalf of many, less wealthy Internet companies. … |
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| Microsoft takes on Google Docs with web-based Office ElectricPig.tv – London,UK Google’s web-based suite of office apps is about to feel the force of Microsoft Office – the Big M just announced the next version of its software suite … |
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| Microsoft’s cloud push lacks economic expediency, sidesteps … ZDNet – USA Most of us observers expected Microsoft to move to the cloud now, based on the success of Amazon Web Services and Google. But the apparent pace is to offer … |
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Google Moves To OpenID |
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| Google, Books and ‘Consumer Bandwidth’ InternetNews.com – USA "We have been negotiating for almost two years with Google and the plaintiffs to shape this agreement for the public good," Stanford University Librarian … |
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| Yahoo-Google deal sparks fresh concerns ZDNet UK – UK A consumer group, legislators and Wall Street weighed in this week on Yahoo’s proposed search-advertising deal with Google. JPMorgan analyst Imran Khan … |
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| Is Google the Elephant in the Cloud? SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USA According to a well-researched article in SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal, Google filed as long ago as February 2006 a provisional patent application with … |
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| Google captures Motorola as user of Android in phones San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA By Vivek Shankar Google Android phones may beat Apple’s iPhone in the market for Web-enabled handsets now that Motorola is looking to the royalty-free … |
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| Microsoft’s Google Apps killer – Office 14 with web apps Australian Personal Computer – Sydney,Australia Version 14 will have web-based versions too, in a clear move to tackle Google Docs. At its Los Angeles Professional Developer Conference, Microsoft has … |
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| Google, FCC, Broadcasters Fight for White Spaces BusinessWeek – USA Proponents include FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and an odd conglomeration of tech heavyweights that includes Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL), … |
MSN
| UK Agencies Declare Specific Media the Leader in Customer Service MarketWatch – USA Across 13 of the 14 attributes that were put to agencies, Specific Media and MSN both appeared in the top five places 11 times, three more than the next … |
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| Work Safe Alberta launches gory "bloodylucky" campaign Media In Canada – Toronto,ON,Canada … interior transit, transit shelter and restobar/workplace posters and web banners (on MSN/Sympatico, Hotmail and MSN Messenger sites) across Alberta. … |
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| Ensuring Web Sites Can Handle Spikes In User Traffic North American Press Syndicate – New York,NY,USA Microsoft’s MSN Games is one of the largest and busiest gaming portals on the Internet, bringing casual gaming to multiple devices and platforms. … |
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Trutap Brings All IM Services Together on Your Phone |
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| More product information: CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA This navigator leads the way with turn-by-turn directions and optional MSN Direct services to get you there on time and keep you informed. … |
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Specific Media and MSN top IPA’s Online Media Owners’ Survey |
| ‘Kirill’ Is Here: MSN and Endemol’s Brit Sci-Fi Series Launches Tubefilter News – Los Angeles,CA,USA by Marc Hustvedt on October 30th, 2008 MSN UK and Endemol UK announced today the launch of their new interactive sci-fi web series Kirill, starring British … |
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Boardband users prefer cable to DSL, study says |
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| AOL.com rolls out homepage redesign The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia The move comes a month after AOL.com, the number four gateway to the web after Google, MSN and Yahoo, revamped its homepage to allow users to preview … |
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New Changes in Microsoft AdCenter – PPC Ad Management Tool |
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| Nextar intros Q4-MD navigator, throws in MSN Direct free for a year engadget – Santa Monica,CA,USA Nextar will feature the Q4-MD with MSN Direct at the upcoming 2008 SEMA show in booth 10613 in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. … |
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| AOL.com opens its home page, but does anyone care? CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA Traffic to the site, as a result, is up 14 percent to 33 million unique visitors, while competitors like Yahoo! and MSN have seen time spent on their … |
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| MSN, Endemol team up for original web series C21Media – London,England,UK MSN has teamed up with Endemol UK to launch Kirill (10×3′), an original sci-fi web drama that Microsoft is aiming to use to drive downloads of its … |
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| 3 Updates Skype And MSN Apps Pocket-lint.co.uk – UK 3 has announced it has updated its Skype and Windows Live Messenger applications available on its mobile phones. Skype allows 3 users to make calls and send … |
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| Microsoft: We must be prepared for Kirill to fail TechRadar.com – London,UK The show has been given its own spin-off MSN web page, which is looking to entice those with a keen interest in science fiction. … |
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| The NCC to Display New Lines of Goodyear-Branded GPS Navigation … MarketWatch – USA "The ease-of-use, MSN Direct connectivity, and exclusive features like INSTANT rerouting on these units make them unlike anything else on the market today," … |
Yahoo
| Yahoo opens its data and tools to outside developers Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USA By Heather Havenstein October 29, 2008 (Computerworld) Yahoo Inc. is making good on its promise to rewire itself by opening its data and tools to developers … |
| UPDATE 1-Yahoo, AOL in due diligence on combination-source Reuters – USA Talks are focused on how to integrate AOL’s content and advertising business into Yahoo, said the source, who was not authorized to speak publicly because … |
| Analyst presses case for Yahoo, Microsoft deal MarketWatch – USA By John Letzing, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — As speculation grew about Yahoo Inc.’s future Wednesday, JP Morgan’s Imran Khan joined other … |
| Yahoo, AOL Are Examining Each Other’s Books, Reuters Reports Bloomberg – USA By Andrew Dunn Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. and Time Warner Inc.’s AOL Internet unit are examining each other’s books to see how much they could make … |
| Yahoo Open Platform Leverages REST APIs, SQL-Like Query Language … eWeek – New York, NY By Clint Boulton Yahoo introduces its Yahoo Open Strategy, the search engine’s sweeping application development shift to open up the multiple applications … |
| Roundup: Yahoo developer platform launches, Wal-Mart sells G1, and … New York Times – United States Yahoo launches developer platform — See our preview from last week. Discounted G1 phones go on sale at Wal-Mart today — The Android-powered phone is … |
| Microsoft and Yahoo! join forces to combat… Siliconrepublic.com – Dublin,Ireland Microsoft and Yahoo! join forces to combat lottery scam artists Con artists who prey on vulnerable users through internet lottery scams are about to meet … |
| Cuban To Yang: You Should Have Sold Yahoo Barron’s Blogs – USA Mark Cuban, the outspoken billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, who became a rich man by selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo (YHOO) for $4.6 billion in 1999 … |
| Yahoo a rumor no more Bellevue Leader – Bellevue,NE,USA La Vista residents and city officials are by now quite familiar with La Vista’s most well-known secret, the rumor that the internet search company Yahoo! … |
| Consumer group opposes Google, Yahoo partnership Reuters – USA WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Public Interest Group, a consumer organization, is opposing Google’s plan to share advertising with rival Yahoo, saying it could … |
TECH.BLORGE.com – Sydney,Australia
With Yahoo already on board, the scheme could reach the tipping point into a success – though there remain problems. The idea of the scheme is that you can …
InternetNews.com – USA
In response, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have temporarily put aside their differences. The two are teaming up to educate consumers …
Search Engine Watch – USA
Yahoo. I then came across a story by Reuters which says Yahoo and AOL are conducting "due diligence" on a possible (probable? …
National Post – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Since it looks increasingly unlikely that the search partnership between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. will past a Department of Justice review in its current …
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
By Mike Schneider and Michael White Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang may not be tough enough to pull the company out of its slump, Dallas Mavericks owner …
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Yahoo, AOL in due diligence on combination: source
Reuters – USA
By Anupreeta Das SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc and Time Warner Inc’s AOL unit are looking at each other’s books to figure out how much money they …
Washington Post – United States
As the portal business Rubiks cube goes through another turn, Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL ( NYSE: TWX)arenow doing due diligence on each other’s finances in …
OrangeSoda Touted as ‘Emerging Elite’ Company by Mountain West …
Oct 31st
| OrangeSoda Touted as ‘Emerging Elite’ Company by Mountain West … Newswire Today (press release) – London,UK Founded in 2006, OrangeSoda Inc. (orangesoda.com) is an online marketing technology company providing powerful, proprietary search engine marketing … |
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| The “Bible†Of Search Engine Marketing Search Engine Land – Redding,CT,USA My vote for that distinctive title in our industry goes to Search Engine Marketing, Inc. by Mike Moran and Bill Hunt. Both Mike and Bill are lontime search … |
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| Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways To Make Millions For Your … Media Newswire (press release) – New York,NY,USA Multi-channel marketing –combining new concepts, such as search engine marketing and social media, with tried and true methods such as direct print … |
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| E-Site Marketing Wins 2008 Best Hotel and Lodging Website Award MarketWatch – USA "We have also been impressed with the team at E-site Marketingand their in-depth knowledge of how search engine marketing works. Their hands-on approach has … |
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Worldwide SEO – Insight into Online Marketing in Turkey |
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| TopSpot Internet Marketing Solutions Inc. Announced Today That it … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA TopSpot Internet Marketing Solutions Inc. is a Houston based Search Engine Marketing (SEM) agency that currently services more than 400 clients nationwide. … |
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| Annual Report to shareholders Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia … solutions that meet our clients’ of whom have been with the Company for a number of years. viral and email campaigns, and search engine marketing needs. … |
| OrangeSoda Talks Up Benefits of Local Online Search and Digital … Newswire Today (press release) – London,UK “Key executives and decision makers have started to witness the cost benefit of search engine marketing during tight economic times,†Bean said. … |
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| Digit@l Di@logue Social Media / Web 2.0 Panel Business Lexington – Lexington,KY,USA A panel of experts will be talking about Social Media, Search Engine Marketing, Web Advertising and other "Web 2.0" topics using a plain-English, open, … |
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| Search marketing ‘allows targeted website traffic’ Business Feet – London,England,UK Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) should start getting on the search engine marketing bandwagon, because it provides them with information on how to … |
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Search marketing advised for small businesses |
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| Radio Mirchi appoints Vikram Ahuja as Marketing Head, Mumbai Indiantelevision.com – Mumbai,Maharashtra,India Vikram also holds an MBA from KJ Somaiya, Mumbai and Certificates in Advanced level Search Engine Optimization and Advertising from Search Engine Marketing … |
| Republican Congressman Calls For More “In-Depth†Review Of … Search Engine Land – Redding,CT,USA There’sa strong chance that regulators will not allow the Google-Yahoo search deal; indeed this is the emerging conventional wisdom. … |
| Search Engine Marketing Consulting Company Gears Up For Increased … Emailwire – USA OBSNews.com – In an era dominated by the Internet and search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN, business owners throughout America know they need to have … |
| Yahoo Gains Search Share; Google & Microsoft Suck Marketing Pilgrim – Raleigh,NC,USA Some good news for Yahoo! It’s share of US searches in September reached 20.2%–up from 19.6% in August. Bad news for Google. It’s share dropped a massive … |
| Google targets small businesses B&T Marketing & Media (subscription) – Australia … way to reach new customers when budgets are tight." Prior to joining Google, Persaud held roles at Yahoo! Search Marketing and UK auction house QXL. |
| Local is As Local Does WebProNews – Lexington,KY,USA Data from comScore and TMP Direct Marketing shows that this year more people are turning to search engines after last year’s showed that Yellow Pages were … |
| Local Search Marketing Tips for B2B Marketers Search Engine Land – Redding,CT,USA Local via Yahoo! Submit. Searchers will see a map listing along with local search results that include your address, URL, phone number, user reviews, … |
| Prime Visibility: Social Media Buzz about Obama Far Higher Than McCain MarketWatch – USA Given its large database, however, Yahoo! is much more likely to contain duplicate content than smaller sites. Google Blog Search had Obama with … |
| Ben Knight joins Harvest Digital as Head of Search Response Source (press release) – London,UK Ben Knight brings almost five years of search marketing experience to Harvest. In his most recent role as Account Director of the Finance Division at The … |
| Local is As Local Does WebProNews – Lexington,KY,USA Data from comScore and TMP Directional Marketing shows that this year more people are turning to search engines after last year’s showed that Yellow Pages … |
| Digital Marketing and ROI – The Rules Rewritten WebProNews – Lexington,KY,USA In August, YouTube drove more search traffic than Yahoo! did. The second rules of media involve getting your messages to as wide an interested audience as … |
| viaLanguage Teams with Anvil Media WebWire (press release) – Atlanta,GA,USA Through a strategic partnership with Anvil Media, Inc., a leading provider of search engine marketing (SEM) services, the new set of value-added services … |
| SMEs embrace search marketing Brand Republic – London,UK Adrian Flux Insurance Services, one of the UK’s biggest specialist motor insurance providers, has used search marketing on the Microsoft adCenter platform … |
adSense
| Google Settles Score with Book Publishers and Authors Search Engine Journal – USA Google Adsense running side by side copies of books being previewed online. And to quote a Google statement saying “this opens a new revenue opportunity … |
| Popular free Web analytics service is opened to all New York Times – United States … a slew of new features for its Google analytics service, including custom report generation, advanced segmentation and integration with Google AdSense. … |
| New Website Offers Web’s Cheapest Internet Marketing and eCommerce … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA The electronic guides also cover important factors including the proper use of Google AdSense and AdWords, as well as explaining the finer points of … |
| Fab New Features for Google Analytics Means More Profits ECommerce-Guide – United States Meanwhile, integration with AdSense is currently in a private test phase and is slated for "a more gradual full release," according to the Google Analytics … |
| Google Knol Primer: Strategies for Writing Content, Getting … MarketingSherpa.com (subscription) – Portsmouth,RI,USA You can run ads from Google’s AdSense advertising network on your knols. Use an existing AdSense account or establish a new one solely for this purpose. … |
| Google AdSense Testing Coupon Ads? Search Engine Roundtable – USA Yesterday we reported about a new type of Google AdSense ad. I wasn’t sure if it was new, and even one commentator added another option, that the ad could … |
| Playfish Completes $17 Million Financing and Continues Success as … MarketWatch – USA Playfish’s recent news has included participation in Google’s in-game advertising platform, AdSense for Games, which launched on Oct. 8, … |
| AdSense for Games from Google Refreshed Media – Bournemouth,UK With the popularity of video gaming, this could mean a big thing for Adsense marketers and anyone looking to market online. Have you heard the news? … |
| Google AdSense Pays Publishers Wrong Amounts Again! Exchange Rate … Search Engine Roundtable – USA Just a month ago, Google messed up and paid out Indian based AdSense publishers the wrong amount, a lesser amount, due to exchange rate conversion issues. … |
| New Public Domain Media Website Reveals Sources Of Public Domain … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA This new and exciting site has tons of information to help internet marketing specialists and Adsense publishers make money online. … |
| Google China Launches AdSense Growth Plan Pacific Epoch (subscription) – Hong Kong,Hong Kong Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) China has released an AdSense Growth Plan for small- and medium-sized or new site partners, reports Hexun. … |
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| Google’s AdSense Admits Economic Turmoil Creates Uncertainty Appscout – New York,NY,USA I got it because I have a personal blog which runs Google AdSense ads. I know it’s an official Google email because there’s no phone number. … |
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| Google AdSense to Publishers – We’ll keep driving technological … EVLiving – USA Google AdSense is the Google, Inc. program that allows publishers of web sites and blogs to insert advertising code into their pages and serve relevant ads … |
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| Google to AdSense users: Please don’t dump us in crap economic times VentureBeat – Fremont,CA,USA Today, Google sent out an email to all of its AdSense (Google’s online advertising system) publishers promising them that it’s doing everything it can to … |
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| AdSense Pays Wrong Amount To Publishers Again! Search Newz – Lexington,KY,USA Just a month ago, Google paid wrong amount to Indian AdSense publishers based on the wrong Exchange rates. And they have the same issue again Earlier Google … |
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| MySpace ad service lets users customize pitches Dallas Morning News – Dallas,TX,USA The idea of self-service advertising is not new – Google Inc. has been doing so for years with text-based ads through its AdSense platform. … |
adWords
| AdWords API Sandbox "Wigging Out" Due To Bad Data Refresh Search Engine Roundtable – USA If you are a big Google AdWords API user and you have been messing around in the API’s Sandbox yesterday or today, you may have been experiencing some … |
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| 4 Easy Ways to Get Advertisers on Your Site Alibaba News Channel – New York,NEW YORK,USA These ads are paid for by businesses that use Google’s pay-per-click program, AdWords. These ads reflect the content on your site, so if your site sells a … |
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| Google Adwords Encourages Voters Search Newz – Lexington,KY,USA We found it particularly amusing that Google is messaging users via their AdWords accounts, but its still kinda cool. Just a tidbit for you to nibble on … |
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Google AdWords Opens Bidding on Beer & Champagne |
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| Analyst finds SQL flaw in Google Adwords MX Logic – Denver,CO,USA While Google plugged the data security vulnerabilities identified by this wave of attacks, Schulman warned that this new Adwords exploit could lead to a … |
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| United Kingdom: Do Trade-Marked ´Adwords´ Infringe? Mondaq News Alerts (subscription) – London,UK When you search the internet it is the clever use of ‘adwords‘, keywords purchased by advertisers, that enables certain adverts and sponsored links to … |
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| Google Grants Managed by SmartFinds Internet Marketing for Non-Profits PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA SmartFinds Internet Marketing now offers Google AdWords assistance to Non-Profit Organizations to make the most out of their Google Grants advertising … |
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| Limited Service Hotels…Get in the Internet Game! 4Hoteliers – Wanchai,Hong Kong For smaller monthly budgets, I always suggest a concentration on Google AdWords. Google outperforms all other search engines. For bigger budgets, it pays to … |
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| New Google Australia executive plans push into SME market SmartCompany.com.au – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia Wallbank also emphasises the fact Google AdWords, a staple of the group’s advertising offerings, is extremely competitive. “For a lot of smaller businesses, … |
Packaging Web 2.0 applications for the enterprise
Oct 31st
| Packaging Web 2.0 applications for the enterprise FierceContentManagement – Washington,DC,USA More than three years after Tim O’Reilly coined the term Web 2.0, many companies still don’t understand how Web 2.0 applies to their business or how to use … |
| CSSRank.com – Gallery Of The Best Web 2.0 Sites Killer Startups – Miami,FL,USA Bearing in mind the nature of Web 2.0 sites and the novelty of the services which are often provided, an online resource like this is quite interesting. … |
| Will Web 2.0 survive the downturn? Computing – London,UK The old world order was dying, the old rules were being ripped up and replaced, and Web 2.0 would take over. Businesses feared that they were not employing … |
| Follow Zappos’ Web 2.0 Steps to Build Email Newsletter Driven by … MarketingSherpa.com (subscription) – Portsmouth,RI,USA Their newsletter strategy also drives their Web 2.0 tactics on Facebook and Twitter. Almost half of marketers now consider exploring the relationship … |
| LCL selects Atos Origin to implement a secure banking Web 2.0 … WebWire (press release) – Atlanta,GA,USA Paris, Atos Worldline, an Atos Origin Company, was selected by French bank LCL to develop, build, run and host a secure banking Web 2.0 messaging service … |
| Ditech Networks Enhances Voice Processing Platform for VoIP, 3G … Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA Although the demand for VoIP, 3G and Web 2.0 services continues to increase significantly, the volume of IP voice traffic can vary widely at different … |
| RedDot embraces enterprise 2.0 VNUNet.com – UK Web content management firm RedDot has today launched a suite of products designed to give firms the tools to create internal and external Web 2.0 sites … |
| Volantis Systems Connects Web 2.0 Applications To Mobile MarketWatch – USA Volantis is leading the charge as Web 2.0 converges with the mobile world, creating a single online universe." Volantis plans to add further connectors in … |
| Web 2.0 and Retail Banking: Less Hype Equals Opportunity Bobsguide (press release) – London,UK Web 2.0 is one of the most misused and abused terms in business today. While consumer expectations advance at a fast pace, a gap between consumer … |
| So What Exactly is Web 2.0? Promotion World (press release) – San Diego,CA,USA by Dave Ashworth Whilst Web 2.0 would suggest that a new version of the web has been released, it’s actually a reference to the changing way in which us … |
| Envision Announces Webinar on "How Web 2.0 Will Change the Way … MarketWatch – USA Preparation for, and understanding of, Web 2.0 services will be key to embracing and taking advantage of the coming millennial revolution. |
| Online Retail to Grow Strong With Web 2.0, Despite Economic Downturn ebizQ – New Rochelle,NY,USA WorkLight, the Web 2.0 for Business specialist, says the e-tail industry is growing strong as Web 2.0 and social eCommerce initiatives are adopted to … |
| Source: Yahoo! and AOL prepping for possible deal SmartBrief – Washington,DC,USA While a deal to combine AOL and Yahoo! is not officially in the pipeline, one source told Reuters that the two Web companies have been engaging recently in … |
| Enterprise 2.0: Is It Time for Your Organization to Make the … MarketWatch – USA Has the hype around Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 gone too far? Is Web 2.0 revolutionary or evolutionary? Should businesses boldly move forward with Web 2.0 … |
| Manufacturing Insights Predicts Web 2.0 Collaboration Technologies … MarketWatch – USA The report offers context for those tasked with defining, structuring and deploying Knowledge Management strategies, through the exploitation of Web 2.0 … |
| Dutch government unveils Web 2.0 plans Telecom Paper (subscription) – Houten,Netherlands The Dutch goverment wants to involve citizens in public affairs through interactive Web 2.0 applications. The government will invest in new internet … |
| Web 2.0 acts as accelerant in pending corporate Darwinian… IT-Director.com – USA The impact of Web 2.0 technologies on the current global economic downturn will hasten the demise of closed and siloed corporate cultures while providing a … |
| Web 2.0 lessons from the wine world Inman.com – Emeryville,CA,USA But he’s also respected for his knowledge of Web 2.0 marketing techniques — techniques he’s learned first hand. "When I built Wine Library, … |
| Web 2.0 Summit ‘Web Meets World’ Auction to Benefit Three … MarketWatch – USA "The auction provides the Web 2.0 Summit community with a concrete way to promote change as we support these three worthwhile organizations," said John … |
| Intel, Asus plead with Web 2.0 for notebook of the future Register – London,England,UK By Austin Modine • Get more from this author Ever wonder who’s going to invent the next big thing in computers? Just look in the mirror. … |
Webmaster Central Blog
Oct 31st
| Webmaster Central Blog Mediapost.com – New York,NY,USA Now that you understand what the label means in search results, find out what to do about it if you’re a Webmaster and Google’s scanners have found malware … |
| Having an election party? Tell us! Colorado Springs Gazette – Colorado Springs,CO,USA E-mail webmaster@gazette.com with all the information for your party, and get ready for Election Night! Research the candidates and issues with The … |
| ICI PARIS XL: Webmaster Digimedia – Belgium ICI PARIS XL is looking for a webmaster to rapidly join the company. Assist with the web and email newsletters analytics in order to make propositions for … |
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| (Web)master of the workout Kansas.com – KS,USA But Bolt’s pain was eased a bit by news that his volunteer Web master, Randi Lindquist, had gone above and beyond. Since the start of the session, … |
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CinciMedia Declares that to Maximize Website Potential the Days of … |
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| Link exchanges a part of search engine optimisation history? Business Feet – London,England,UK He worries that some people believe the process is still "new age" search engine optimisation, but cites Google’s Webmaster Help Centre to warn people off … |
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| New MoA website – suggestions invited Bhutan Ministry of Agriculture – Bhutan The main additional feature of the website is that the responsibility of the webmaster is shared with the information focal persons from different agencies … |
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| Google Can Process More Than a 100 Links Per Page Search Engine Roundtable – USA Yes, the Google Webmaster Guidelines page says keep it under 100 links per page. But the reason behind Google adding that as a guideline is for usability … |
| Diploma mill webmaster gets 4 years for fraud, porn Seattle Times – United States Pearson served as the webmaster for dozens of online, fictional universities and high schools set up by Dixie and Steve Randock but was only paid an hourly … |
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| Staying Ahead of the Competition Thanks to the Webmaster Journal PR-USA.net (press release) – Varna,Bulgaria With the Internet becoming an arena which is increasingly competitive, a webmaster needs to avail him or herself of every possible resource available which … |
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| Google Webmaster Tools Breakdown? Search Engine Roundtable – USA There are a lot of reports lately of issues with Google Webmasters Tools. Issues are fixed but then they return. For example, we have this post reporting 0 … |
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Spiderman’s new Webmaster |
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| The page you’ve requested cannot be found. (404 Error) Cougar Athletics – Chicago,IL,USA If you know you have the correct URL but are encountering an error, please tell us at webmaster@sxu.edu what link you have used. |
The robots are coming
Oct 31st
| Profs want to ditch essays for iPhones The Eyeopener – Toronto,Ontario,Canada This is part of new media’s commitment to “ubiquitous computingâ€â€” how technology is embedded in the daily lives of everyone. In keeping with this idea, … |
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Wimax
| Worldwide WiMAX Growth Wows New York Times – United States WiMAX service, deployed in the US by Sprint and 13 rural carriers, is gaining ground in other areas of the world, especially India, according to data … |
| This Report Examines the WiMAX Equipment Market and Includes … MarketWatch – USA WiMAX is seen as the next new standard, for connectivity at high data rates. And many companies are now investigating the uses and benefits of using the … |
| Redline and Alianza offer Hosted Voice over WiMAX Solution Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA Alianza and Redline tested Alianza’s hosted voice platform with Redline’s WiMAX Forum Certified(R) RedMAX systems as part of the Redline Ecosystem … |
| FairPoint Selects Nortel WiMAX for Northern New England MarketWatch – USA FairPoint has selected Nortel’s WiMAX network solution as one of the access platforms it will use to bring high-speed Internet to communities in Vermont, … |
| Yota, HTC to launch WiMAX handset in Russia Telecom Paper (subscription) – Houten,Netherlands Russian mobile WiMAX service provider Scartel (owner of the Yota brand) will launch a GSM and WiMAX handset developed by HTC and Yota in November. … |
| New MMU-Motorola Wireless Broadband Technology Lab Opens at … MarketWatch – USA The Wireless Broadband Technology Lab is the first of its kind in Malaysia and supports MMU’s goal to "Enable the Knowledge Society through WiMAX". … |
| WiMax Coming To Remote Regions Of Vermont InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA FairPoint, Nortel, and Airspan Networks are investing in building out the 3.65 GHZ spectrum to help spur the use of fixed WiMax in many regions. … |
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| Intel invests in Taiwan mobile WiMax ZDNet UK – UK According to Otellini, Intel Capital’s intended investment and the company’s accompanying business deal will help Vmax to deploy Taiwan’s first mobile WiMax … |
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| Nortel Powers FairPoint WiMAX in Northern New England TMCnet – USA By Anuradha Shukla FairPoint Communications has chosen Nortel (News – Alert) to power its new WiMAX wireless broadband services for the Northern New England … |
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| Redline, Alianza Team to Grow Voice Offerings for WiMAX Service … TMCnet – USA By Anuradha Shukla Alianza (News – Alert), a provider of hosted voice-over-WiMAX solutions, and Redline Communications Group, a provider of WiMAX and … |
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| Vermonters to get largest fixed-wireless rollout The Associated Press For those, FairPoint plans to use wireless WiMax equipment from Nortel Networks Corp. and Airspan Networks Inc., the companies said Wednesday. … |
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| Wateen and Motorola to Expand WiMAX Network in Pakistan Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA Wateen’s WiMAX service, launched in 2007, brings customers price and quality benefits through innovative services such as voice calling and WiMAX for … |
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| Intel to invest $11.7 mln in Taiwan WiMax venture Reuters – USA … building new wireless networks in Taiwan based on the standard known as WiMax, which can deliver data at high speeds over relatively large areas. … |
WEBS: America’s Yarn Store Casts On Search-Engine Success With SLI …
Oct 29th
| WEBS: America’s Yarn Store Casts On Search-Engine Success With SLI … Market Wire (press release) – USA … site search and Site Champion user-generated SEO (http://www.sli-systems.com/ |
| Dubai-based Vistas Advertising Agency Launches Creative Website … Newswire Today (press release) – London,UK Now the company is offering complete web solutions like web designing, search engine optimization, e brochure designing, Logo Design Company, … |
| USA SEO Pros Client Rankings Set To Go Up After Aggressive SEO … The Open Press (press release) – USA (OPENPRESS) October 28, 2008 — With the world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) changing with new algorithms in search engines such as Google and Yahoo, … |
| Cloud Economics: Microsoft, Google & Amazon ITworld.com – Framingham,MA,USA To properly compare Microsoft, Google and Amazon, I am using the gross profit (instead of revenue) and net profit numbers. Gross profit is, in some sense, … |
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| Google settles with book publishers MarketWatch – USA Their proposed settlement with Google remains subject to approval by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. , , ) have offered book … |
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| Google offers Gmail users a window into Calendar and Docs New York Times – United States By HEATHER HAVENSTEIN, IDG Google this week unveiled gadgets created by its Google Labs project that allow Gmail users to look at Google Calendar and Google … |
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| Microsoft’s Azure Could Usher in The Cloud as Commodity eWeek – New York, NY To most who have already lived through the now more than two-year-old launch of Amazon Web Services, and the release earlier this year of Google’s App … |
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| Tech Fight: Dolly Parton, Joel Osteen vs. Google, Dell and Motorola Wired News – USA Google, Dell and Microsoft wrote their letters separately to the FCC urging for a vote. Two weeks ago, an FCC report said the testing of new devices showed … |
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| Google, Yahoo, Microsoft ready to adopt human rights guidelines Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA Reports on Tuesday said that Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. were set to adopt guidelines on what data they will share about their users with … |
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| Microsoft to sell Office as a Web service, competing with Google Docs Seattle Times – United States Google beat Microsoft to the market for online productivity products with its Google Docs and Spreadsheets offering, which Microsoft has dismissed as too … |
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| Google agrees $125m publishing copyright deal guardian.co.uk – UK The agreement, which is still subject to approval from the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, will see Google paying out $125m in … |
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| Google, Yahoo and Microsoft align against state censorship ITworld.com – Framingham,MA,USA by Peter Sayer Google, Yahoo and Microsoft will announce a common code of conduct relating to freedom of expression and the protection of privacy online. … |
MSN
| Microsoft MSN Teams Up With Kingsoft Duba To Fight Chinese IM Viruses ChinaTechNews.com – Beijing,China Microsoft MSN has reached a strategic cooperative instant messaging agreement with Kingsoft Duba to jointly provide free security products to the users of … |
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Internet Companies Embrace Human Rights Guidelines |
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| MSN Groups to close Web User – London,UK The announcement was made quietly back in early September but users of MSN Groups have only recently received emails informing them of the closure. … |
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| Time to log off and meet up AsiaOne – Singapore MSN, as most computer users will know, is an online chat software from Microsoft used to keep in touch with friends and contacts, often acting as a … |
Yahoo
| Yahoo Opens Up Big Time Washington Post – United States Six months after first announcing its open strategy, Yahoo has released a slew of development tools (as we told you it would) under the Y!OS 1.0 platform. … |
| Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share; Microsoft Loses (Update1) Bloomberg – USA By Vivek Shankar Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. handled a larger chunk of US Internet searches last month while Microsoft Corp. lost market share, … |
| Key Republican questions Yahoo’s cooperation The Associated Press He said that many of the company’s answers to his questions "seemed designed to obscure rather than clarify how the Google-Yahoo partnership would work. … |
| Yahoo Tightens HotJobs After Hackers Hit InternetNews.com – USA By Richard Adhikari: More stories by this author: In a move that could have saved thousands of potential victims of identity theft, Yahoo techs have fixed a … |
| Yahoo’s Zimbra e-mail service heads to school CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA Yahoo on Tuesday released a hosted version of its Zimbra e-mail and calendar software for educational customers. Zimbra is open-source software, … |
| Yahoo Introduces Social Developer Platform InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA Over the coming months, Yahoo expects newly developed social applications to make the experience of using Yahoo more like Facebook or MySpace. … |
| Great Call on Yahoo! What’s Next? Motley Fool – USA By Matt Koppenheffer It’s been a trying time for Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) investors. Earlier this year, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) offered to take shares off … |
| Altruistic Or Not, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo Pledge Human Rights … CRN – Manhasset,NY,USA Either way, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are set to sign an intiative that will oversee their business practices overseas, particularly in China. … |
| Lawmaker wants indepth review of Google/Yahoo deal Reuters – USA Joe Barton, a Republican from Texas, expressed frustration at Yahoo’s response to questions Barton and his staff had posed about the deal, which would allow … |
| Google, Yahoo, Microsoft ready to adopt human rights guidelines Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA Reports on Tuesday said Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are set to adopt guidelines on what data they will share about their users with … |
Amazon Offers Virtual Window Shopping Tool: Hands On
Oct 29th
| Get Back to Business Planning Fundamentals – Alibaba.com Biznes blog money.pl – Warszawa,Poland In a recession, it’s important to know what adjustments to make to your business plan. Here are three fundamentals to remember. I’m a baby boomer, … Amazom
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ClickBank
| We want you on our TV Show!! PRLog.Org (press release) – Bucuresti,Romania available of course at ClickBank. =>> And we would like YOU to star in it! We will fly you to Los Angeles at our expense, put you up with your family (or up … |
| ClickBank Adds New International Features to Its Online Platform SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USA In an effort to significantly expand the moneymaking capability of affiliates and product publishers using its powerful online sales platform, ClickBank, … |
| Adpole.com Launches Free ClickBank Affiliate Widget for Business … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA ClickBank affiliate marketers that operate business opportunity oriented blogs and websites now have a new free tool they can use to boost their affiliate … |
eBay
| Cabbage Patch Politics: Where McCain and Obama Can Both Win FOXNews – USA EBay and Cabbage Patch Kids have partnered to create a special series of Obama, Palin, McCain and Biden dolls as part of the Cabbage Patch Kid 25th … |
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| Dow bounds back above 9000 Bizjournals.com – Charlotte,NC,USA Flea market eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), jumped $1.34, or 9.22 percent, to $15.87. Genentech Inc. (NYSE: DNA) climbed 9 cents, a bit over a tenth of a percent, … |
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| Cabbage Patch Candidates for Charity Mom Logic – Burbank,CA,USA Four one-of-a-kind Cabbage Patch Kids dolls will be auctioned for charity on eBay on November 4th. Proceeds will go to US Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots … |
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Ebay’s Meg Whitman Talks Tech and Policy |
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| Baidu Bids for Attention in a Crowd Motley Fool – USA You know eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) of course. Did you know that merchant services at eBay’s PayPal beat the namesake marketplace this past quarter in terms of … |
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| eBay (EBAY) NewsBite – EBAY Rises on Neutral Rating Market Intelligence Center – Charlottesville,VA,USA eBay (NasdaqNM: EBAY) opened at $15.09. So far today, the stock has hit a low of $14.75 and a high of $15.18. EBAY is now trading at $14.85, … |
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| Credit Suisses Launches GOOG At Outperform Rating; Neutral On AMZN … Barron’s Blogs – USA Credit Suisse’s Spencer Wang this morning launched coverage of the Internet sector with a Market Weight sector rating. Wang writes that he is “constructive … |
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| Nurse who put knickers up for sale on eBay faces disciplinary panel Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom A nurse who put her knickers up for sale on the online auction site eBay has appeared before a disciplinary panel. Sheena McMillan, 24, tried to sell clean … |
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| eBay to Offer Exceptional Deals to Holiday Shoppers and More Free … MarketWatch – USA eBay Shoppers Already Saving 30 Percent off MSRP on Many of the Hottest Gift Items; Debuting Nov. 3, eBay.com/Deals Will Connect Shoppers with Even Greater … |
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| Kojima-Signed Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Available on eBay Gaming Today – Spring,TX,USA Available to the highest bidder on eBay right now is a modded 60GB PlayStation 3 system that has been completely reworked to the beauty you see above which, … |
PayPal
| $50 PayPal Discount on Midwest Airlines WebFlyer – Colorado Springs,CO,USA When you purchase roundtrip Midwest Airlines tickets online using PayPal by Nov. 10, 2008 for travel by Feb. 11, 2008, you’ll receive an instant $50 … |
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| Paypal Seller Protection Improved On eBay Connected Internet – UK  I wish Paypal and eBay had introduced this a few months ago, before I got ripped off selling my Playstation 3 on eBay. The buyer paid me via paypal but … |
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| PayPal makes improvements to buyer and seller protection policy … The Paypers (abonnement) – Amsterdam Airport,Noord Holland,Netherlands According to the policy, buyers who are to choose PayPal as a payment method will be protected on eligible transactions for 100 percent of an item’s … |
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eBay Announced Improved PayPal Protection for Buyers & Sellers |
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| PayPal or PaySucks? Why people hate PayPal? Ecommerce Journal – Boston,MA,USA And the name of it is PayPal. All of us read and heard about the successes of this system however the negative information usually remains offscreen. … |
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| Shecy Pals with PayPal PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) – Wien,Austria 2008-10-28 06:20:15 – Shecy Pearl has been chosen as one of the top 29 world seller in Asia-Pacific area to take part in PayPal APEC merchants’ online sales … |
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| Start selling online Malaysia Star – Malaysia For payment, PayPal is one of the best choices because it protects the sellers from fraudulent buyers, she said. PayPal offers sellers protection against … |
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| Zuora raises $15M to manage online subscriptions New York Times – United States By ANTHONY HA, VentureBeat Chief executive Tien Tzuo said he wants Zuora to be the web’s top “online subscription platform,†the way PayPal is the default … |
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| eBay by the numbers Malaysia Star – Malaysia Credit cards were the most common payment method while PayPal came in second. Other interesting findings on eBay Malaysia — 75% are adults in the age group … |
Study Shows Canadian Marketers Going Digital, Entering With Caution
Oct 29th
| Study Shows Canadian Marketers Going Digital, Entering With Caution Market Wire (press release) – USA This includes e-mail marketing, online advertising, search engine marketing (paid), search engine optimization, and interactive consumer websites. … |
| Search to see further growth during credit crunch IAB UK – London,England,UK Spending on search engine marketing has been predicted to rise as a result of the economic downturn, according to the UK division of the Search Engine … |
| Will the credit crunch boost search marketing? Netimperative – London,England,UK The UK arm of the global search engine marketing professionals organisation (SEMPO) is testing the theory that search engine marketing will grow strongly as … |
| Boston Area Marketing and PR Firm Brings "VividContext … MarketWatch – USA CCA’s Internet marketing services include website design, performance tracking, search engine marketing services, custom application development, … |
| Liverpool Businesses Set For £200m Capital of Culture Boost WebWire (press release) – Atlanta,GA,USA … WebRevolve.com handles a range of client projects from logo design to print media, from search engine optimisation to search engine marketing. |
| Smarti Solutions Exhibiting at ad:tech Nov 3-6, 2008 PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA … Mobile Marketing, TV 2.0, Video, Creativity, Blogging, Viral Marketing, Web Analytics, Search Engine Marketing and Optimization, Gaming and more. … |
| VisitBritain looks for search partner PrecisionMarketing – London,England,UK The appointed Agency will be responsible for VisitBritain’s entire Search Engine Marketing (SEM) strategy for all 48 sites across the globe with a view to … |
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| How to Attract Visitors to Your Site – 1 Alibaba News Channel – New York,NEW YORK,USA Not only that, but bidding on traffic in the PPC search engines can help your site get ranked in the free search engines, too! In Yahoo Search Marketing, … |
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| All-New Doctor.com Unites Powerful Doctor Search with Unique … MarketWatch – USA "We also offer powerful marketing options to increase the provider’s prominence in search results and their overall exposure across the Web, particularly in … |
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| Dental Web Site Marketing Firm Gets Orthodontist To Page One In … PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA "The reason we focus on Google," Husayni said, "is that Google attracts more than 60 percent of the total search inquiries conducted in the US Yahoo! … |
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| Homes & Land to Offer Featured Listings on Yahoo! Real Estate MarketWatch – USA With this new ad package, Homes & Land Realtors are able to promote specific homes as featured listings on Yahoo! Real Estate at the top of its local search … |
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