Archive for May, 2006
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt just might have the best Poker face around. How come? Read on.
Google sees more partnerships, not major mergers, according to CEO Eric Schmidt. Problem is that Google’s already had its one major partnership, and since then, it’s grown so fast and so quick that no other media or tech company would really […]
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Translation: we won’t build, we’ll simply buy one.
During a conference call with Wall Street analysts, Schmidt dismissed speculation that the company aimed to tie together its Web search and other services to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the world’s dominant Web browser.
“It looks like people have some good browsers choices already,” Schmidt said. “We […]
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Wow. This is unreal:
Shaun Harrison, 18, and Saverio Mondelli, 19, both of whom are from Suffolk County, N.Y., were arrested in a sting operation last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said Wednesday. The pair had traveled to Los Angeles to meet people they allegedly believed were MySpace employees, but who were in […]
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Ok, let’s not kid ourselves: for us folks who work online, the past 3 years have been rewarding in the sense that our friends and families thought that we were nuts to work online after the dot com meltdown of 2000-01 have come around to realize that the Web ain’t a bad place at all […]
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Some numbing stats:
- Google will earn approximately $23 per U.S. Internet user in 2006
- Google’s share of searches grow from April 2005 to April 2006, though it pegs Google’s current total at 43.1% of the search market, or 2.9 billion search queries for the current month
- But each quarter, Google’s revenue growth has outpaced the […]
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SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - The digital music battle of the future may not be over where music is purchased, but where and how it is stored.
A number of companies have created online content “lockers” where users can upload their digital media files for storage that they can subsequently access from multiple devices.
Examples include Oboe, created […]
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Vonage is one of the VOIP providers, who unlike the traditional telcos who are rolling out VOIP services, was conceived solely to offer consumers Internet Telephony.
Yesterday it had its IPO, and in the worst of its kind this year, the stock tanked 10-15%.
Not good for investors who bought in yesterday, or for that matter, the […]
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The deal, announced before the opening bell, allows both companies to cooperate on advertising to extend their reach on the Web.
The agreement calls for Yahoo to become a provider of all graphic advertisements on eBay’s Web site, as well as a sponsored search for complementary products on numerous eBay search results pages.
Another major […]
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Sometimes I wonder if HipMojo.com, the blog covering matters in high-tech, intellectual property, the search wars, online video and the Web in general is not actually a blog covering Fox Interactive Media’s journeys.
Of course, that might have something to do with the fact that Mr. Rupert Murdoch’s born a day before I am. Well, you know what […]
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Not really anyone big… just Yahoo and AOL.
This can mean only mean one of two things. Either these established giants of the Net will take over the gigantic demand for user generated video content, OR, their efforts are too little too late and will be seen as weak attempts to cash in on the craze. There are already so many established sites with […]
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