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Lazy Man and Money (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Earlier this week Google made a $750 Million purchase of Admob a company specializing in mobile advertising. It surprised the market in two ways. It was Google's 3rd largest acquisition (behind DoubleClick and YouTube) ever. The mobile advertising industry is fairly small at this time. However, Google is moving into [...] Related posts: Buying More Private Stock I got wrapped up in writing a few other...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
It would be an understatement to say that Yahoo's experienced a rough patch recently, and Microsoft, with Bing launched and a search deal on the way, seems to be doing better. But Yahoo may still have a few tricks up its sleeve, and the company pulled off one by getting a Microsoft sales exec to join its ranks. This morning, Kara Swisher described Seth Dallaire as one of Microsoft's top ad sales execs,...
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Critical Section (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Okay... what's happening? Well, I am somewhat digging out at work, I am not totally buried anymore and [as noted in recent posts] have been - gasp! - doing some coding. You know, actual work. And I am still fully buzzed from Sunday night's concert . I have said this before, but I really think that might have been the best concert I've ever seen. Queensryche just fully rocked, but what can we say about...
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SlashGear (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Microsoft have confirmed that they have acquired Interactive Supercomputing (ISC), a desktop parallel computing specialist. The company plan to integrate ISC’s technology into its desktop and cluster high-performance computer solutions; meanwhile they will support existing users of ISC’s Star-P parallel computer modelling software, though no further versions of the app will be developed...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A Microsoft and Yahoo search deal, announced in July, will face an in-depth antitrust review from the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft has confirmed. The DOJ requested additional information about the deal earlier this week, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said. Microsoft expected the DOJ to look into the agreement and conduct a "thorough review," he added. "When we announced the...
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Google announced this week a project it has been working on to develop a faster, more accurate, and more comprehensive search engine. The announcement of the project, code-named ‘Caffeine' (a clever play on words implying that the project will boost speed), seems a little out of character for Google which usually makes these sort of search engine tweaks under the radar. One thing that the announcement...
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
While the launch of Microsoft’s Bing and its deal to acquire Yahoo’s search business temporarily put the focus on “market share” and “user experience,” in search, what really matters are great search algorithms and the infrastructure to support them. And to remind us all of that, Google yesterday evening rolled out a preview version of its new [...] Tweet This
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
While the launch of Microsoft's Bing and its deal to acquire Yahoo's search business temporarily put the focus on "market share" and "user experience," in search, what really matters are great search algorithms and the infrastructure to support them. And to remind us all of that, Google yesterday evening rolled out a preview version of its new search technology , Caffeine . "For...
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
This Thursday we continue our #Hyatt4Good Tweetup Tour in Washington DC, with our final stop in Boston next Friday. Please RSVP if you plan on attending. Each event is free or 100% donation to our Summer of Social Good charity fund benefiting Livestrong, Oxfam America, WWF, and Humane Society . So far, from our NYC, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles events we've raised $4,000 bringing our current total...
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Doug Cutting , creator of the Hadoop technology that powered Yahoo's search index, is leaving the company at the end of August for a position at Cloudera. While the immediate reaction is to assume this is related to the Yahoo-Microsoft deal, in which Microsoft would take over Yahoo's search engine , Cutting tells the New York Times that's not the case. "This has been in the works for awhile and...
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Technology & Gadgets (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
From last few years it's a big game online. The battle between Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to acquire the online search engine share. Microsoft and Yahoo were struggling to beat Google and Yahoo has given the clues in the beginning itself that it's a week competitor. It's association with Microsoft and Google for various projects showed it's falling down and can't compete with Big 2. Now it's final
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Trade Regulation Talk (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
Calls for Antitrust Review of Microsoft’s Search Agreement with Yahoo! Begin This posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter. Yesterday, Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. announced their plans to join forces to compete with Google in the Internet search and online advertising markets. Although neither the Federal Trade Commission nor the Department of Justice...
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DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 30/07/2009
After a fruitless attempt to acquire Yahoo last year, Microsoft has struck a 10-year deal with the Internet company to take on Google. Under the deal, Microsoft will power Yahoo's search engine while Yahoo will take care of both companies' premium search advertisers. The deal must still pass regulators and the companies expect it will take a year or two to fully get the partnership up and running....
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TechChuck (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
Sprint called the launch of the Palm Pre a success, but it wasn't enough to offset a net subscriber loss of 257,000 in the second quarter . The subscriber loss, which came amid a churn rate of 2.05 percent, illustrates Sprint 's challenge. The company is launching new handsets-Palm Pre, Samsung Instinct s30, HTC Snap and the BlackBerry Tour-but is still having trouble retaining customers. Meanwhile,...
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Incremental Blogger (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
After months and months of Yahoo fighting a takeover bid by Microsoft, Yahoo and Microsoft agree on a search deal: Among other things Yahoo will integrate Bing search results into its properties and Microsoft will share 88% percent of resulting ad revenues with Yahoo. There’s more to the agreement than this, but the essential point is [...] Related posts: A little perspective on the proposed...
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