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Facebook Stock Maneuver Feeds IPO Rumors
Consider yourself forewarned: the official line is that "Facebook has no plans to go public at this time." Just the same, a financial maneuver the company's performing has raised a few eyebrows since it seems to point towards that ...
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Yahoo Survey Finds Optimism for Holiday Online Retail
Yahoo conducted a survey of small business online retailers to find out how they think they'll perform this upcoming holiday season compared to previous years.
"Surprisingly, based on the current economic landscape, the results show an ...
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Yahoo Suggests Searchers Use Other Yahoo Properties
Yahoo has started rolling out some new Search Assist features for its web search boxes. They are present in the search boxes of most Yahoo properties. For example, you can find them on Yahoo Sports, Yahoo News, or Yahoo Finance.
"These new ...
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Two More Publishers Talk About Blocking Google
A couple of major publishers are siding with (or at least edging towards) Rupert Murdoch in the News Corp./Google content dispute. MediaNews Group and A.H. Belo execs have said that they're interested in keeping Google away from parts of their ...
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Black Friday 2009: The Best Deals On The Items You Want
Is there a better way to kick off the Holiday season then slowly dragging yourself out of your tryptophan induced coma to go shopping during the wee hours of the day after Thanksgiving, more commonly known as Black Friday ?
Sure, Black Friday ...
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Google Getting More Experimental With Search Ads
Google is now offering some new formats for search ads. They have already been testing them in the U.S., so there is a chance you have already seen some of them if you live here.
Some of them include videos. Some include maps. Some include ...
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Gmail Lets You Send Attachments While Offline
Google has introduced a feature that lets you send attachments in Gmail while you're offline. It works the same way as it would online, except that you can't include inline images.
"If you have Offline Gmail enabled, you'll notice that all ...
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Online Shoppers Have Bigger Holiday Budgets Than Offline Shoppers
Compete has shared some findings from a new study on consumer holiday shopping behavior. According to the firm, active online buyers (consumers who intend to spend over 30% of their holiday budgets online) have bigger budgets than other shoppers. ...
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Twitter Cofounder Talks Again About Acquisitions
There's no need to start refreshing the Twitter Blog every five seconds; it doesn't sound like any pens are poised over paper at the moment. However, Biz Stone has made some statements concerning acquisitions that point to more of them taking ...
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Google Ignoring Its Own Policy on Desktop AdSense?
It has been discovered that Google is now showing AdSense ads inside Google Earth. While it is not that surprising to see Google putting ads on another one of its properties, it has raised a few eyebrows, given that Google Earth is a desktop ...
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Is the Murdoch Bing Deal Really Just About the Wall Street Journal?
After all is said and done Rupert Murdoch may still be seen as the sly old fox that really knew best. Many bloggers and journalists have pounded the insanity of Murdoch's suggestion that News Corp publications might strike an exclusive indexing ...
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Google Obtains Access To TiVo Data
Google TV Ads is about to become a significantly more powerful marketing system. A new pact with TiVo will allow Google to gather (and then pass on) very precise data about which commercials are being viewed, and even (to a lesser degree) who ...
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Interesting Chrome Extensions On the Way
Google has opened up the Chrome Extension Gallery (beta) to developers. This means that anyone can now upload their extensions. Google says it is making the upload flow available early so developers have time to publish their extensions ahead of ...
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Report: Microsoft, News Corp. Plotting Against Google
The companies behind search engines sometimes try to attract more traffic by advertising. Establishing a partnership is another strategy, as is improving the actual search results. Microsoft might be ready to try something a little ...
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Is the Murdock Bing Deal Really Just About the Wall Street Journal?
After all is said and done Rupert Murdock may still be seen as the sly old fox that really knew best. Many bloggers and journalists have pounded the insanity of Murdock's suggestion that News Corp publications might strike an exclusive indexing ...
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Aaron Wall
Microsoft
Link Building for Bing Rankings: Dos and Don'ts
It's easy for businesses to get caught up in Google's expectations for their sites, when trying to market through search. That's certainly a wise thing to do, considering Google dominates the search market by a huge margin. Still, there are other ...
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Retailers Funneling More Money To Bing
Bing has managed to turn retailers' heads in a big way. After looking at statistics from part of 2008, SearchIgnite reported that retailers spent almost 50 percent more with Microsoft's search engine this time around, which puts Google and ...
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Ensuring Your Site is Indexed in Google's Mobile Search
In this day and age, you pretty much can't ignore mobile users. The rate at which consumers are accessing the web via mobile devices is growing rapidly, largely thanks to the increasing popularity and production of smartphones.
Just having a ...
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Now Google Delivers GPS for Android 1.6
Update: Google has now announced that it is expanding availability of Google Maps Navigation to devices running Android 1.6 (Donut) and higher, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1.
Original Article: Google has launched Google Maps ...
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Now LinkedIn Will Be Featured in a Lot More Apps
LinkedIn has opened up its platform to developers. It can be accessed at developer.linkedin.com .
"Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global ...
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Android Continues To Make Inroads
Google's Android is growing like a weed. Perhaps even a weed that's been fertilized and watered as if it was a desirable flower. A new report from AdMob lays out some impressive usage statistics and hints that there's much more to come.
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Google Gets a New Real-Time Infrastructure for Display Ads
Google just announced that it is acquiring Teracent , a provider of "intelligent dynamic display advertising." The company considers itself a pioneer in dynamic ad serving and optimization solutions. Google appears to agree.
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AdTweets Seek to Promote Retweeting of Ads
Businesses and ad networks are increasingly finding new ways to integrate social media and advertising. This is evident with AdKnowledge's recent acquisition of SocialMedia.com's ad network , and it is also evident with TweetMeme's new AdTweets. ...
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eBay Back On Its Feet After Search/Browse Outage
eBay suffered a significant malfunction this weekend as an unspecified "technical issue" affected users' ability to both search and browse listings for most of Saturday. Now, the site's been restored to working order, but a lot of ...
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Link Building for Bing Rankings: Dos and Don'ts
It's easy for businesses to get caught up in Google's expectations for their sites, when trying to market through search. That's certainly a wise thing to do, considering Google dominates the search market by a huge margin. Still, there are other ...
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Microsoft
Yahoo!
Report: Microsoft, News Corp. Plotting Against Google
The companies behind search engines sometimes try to attract more traffic by advertising. Establishing a partnership is another strategy, as is improving the actual search results. Microsoft might be ready to try something a little ...
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Microsoft
New AOL (or is it Aol.?) Logo Revealed
AOL has shown off a new logo, which it considers a significant part of its new "brand identity." That is of course to go with its newfound independence from Time Warner. The logo is simple. Aol. That's it - capital A, lower-case o, lower ...
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Google Doesn't Know if Your Site is in the Cloud
Google's Matt Cutts discussed how the search engine handles sites that that are "in the cloud" with regards to how listings are affected. Matt's explanation was a response to the following user-submitted question:
Can moving my ...
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon Takes Over Social Media
Shhh, can you hear that? What you're hearing is the collective shrieks from Twihards everywhere as The Twilight Saga: New Moon is upon us. For those of you asking yourself, what is a Twihard? I’ve included the definition below.
twi-hard ...
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If You Care About Search, You Must Care About Social Media
All of the search engines are rushing to incorporate more social media elements into their interfaces. Examples of this are evident in things like Google and Bing's deals with Twitter and Facebook . You can see it in Yahoo's new Twitter tab for ...
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Vanessa Fox
Lee Odden
Google to Alert Webmasters of New Software Versions
Google is going to start letting webmasters know when the software they run on their site is outdated. Through Webmater Tools, Google will begin alerting users of new versions of software when they are released.
"One of the great things ...
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MySpace Reaches Deal With Another Music Label
The "virtual fifth label" is now friends with MySpace. Merlin, an organization that represents independent music companies, is supposed to have signed a deal with the social network that should nicely complement MySpace's existing ...
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Imeem
Americans' Social Media Habits Highlight Business Potential
Euro RSCG released some interesting findings from a study exploring the different ways Americans are using social media to "redefine their lives." The study looked at 1,228 social media users in the United States.
"Word of mouth ...
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Google to Alert Webmasters of New Software Versions
Google is going to start letting webmasters know when the software they run on their site is outdated. Through Webmater Tools, Google will begin alerting users of new versions of software when they are released.
"One of the great things ...
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Facebook Sends Cease And Desist To Friend-Seller
uSocial is a controversial advertising company that specializes in social media. For a fee, it promises to get stories on the front page of Digg, direct followers to a Twitter account, and/or find someone Facebook fans (among other ...
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon Takes Over Social Media
Shhh, can you hear that? What you're hearing is the collective shrieks from Twihards everywhere as The Twilight Saga: New Moon is upon us. For those of you asking yourself, what is a Twihard? I’ve included the definition below.
twi-hard ...
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Microsoft Takes Users Behind Bing
Microsoft has launched a new site for Bing, where users can go to find out the latest features that have been implemented into the search engine (excuse me, "decision engine"). The site's called Behind Bing .
"You can see each ...
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Barnes & Noble Says No Nook For Holidays
Barnes & Noble said today it has sold out of its new nook e-reader due to high demand and shipments will not arrive in time for Christmas.
“nook continues to be the fastest-selling product at Barnes & Noble, and pre-orders have ...
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Bebo May Beat Retreat From Australia
Sometimes you just have to know when to call it quits, and a new report indicates that Bebo has decided now's the time to cut its losses in Australia. Bebo is supposed to end its operations in the country before the end of the year.
Paul ...
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If You Care About Search, You Must Care About Social Media
All of the search engines are rushing to incorporate more social media elements into their interfaces. Examples of this are evident in things like Google and Bing's deals with Twitter and Facebook . You can see it in Yahoo's new Twitter tab for ...
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Social Media
Vanessa Fox
Lee Odden
National Dog Show Available Online At Hulu
NBC said today "The National Dog Presented by Purina" will be available online Thanksgiving Day (Noon - 2 p.m. in all time zones) at NBCSports.com.
The television broadcast will also be available online after 2 p.m. ET on Hulu .
To ...
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Susan Boyle Breaks Amazon Pre-Order Record
Amazon.com has announced that Susan Boyle's upcoming album, "I Dreamed a Dream," has become its largest global pre-order in the history of the online retail giant.
The album will be released by Sony Music Entertainment on November 23. ...
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Google Doesn't Know if Your Site is in the Cloud
Google's Matt Cutts discussed how the search engine handles sites that that are "in the cloud" with regards to how listings are affected. Matt's explanation was a response to the following user-submitted question:
Can moving my ...
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Matt Cutts
Google Enhances Real Estate Search
Google has added some new real estate search features to Google Maps. Earlier this year, Google expanded this functionality by letting you select "real estate" from the "more" menu. Now you can just search for "real estate" or other real ...
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Sony Plans New Online Service In 2010
Sony has plans to launch a new online service next year that will allow users to download music and movies to their televisions.
"I'd like it to get off the ground as quickly as possible," said Kazuo Hirai, executive vice president of ...
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eBay Completes Skype Sale
It looks like the eBay-Skype spectacle has finally come to a close. Despite all of the arguments (legal and otherwise) that cropped up at one point or another, representatives of both companies announced last night that the sale of Skype to an ...
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Twitter Expands Into More Than Just 2 Languages
Update 2 : Twitter is now supporting the French language.
Update: Twitter is now supporting the Spanish language.
Original Article: Twitter announced that it intends to roll out the service in the French, Italian, ...
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Twitter Makes Geotagging Tweets Possible
Back in the summer, Twitter announced that it was working on an API to give developers the ability to geotag tweets. The company has now made that available.
There is no geotagging on Twitter.com yet, but Twitter apps will now be able to support ...
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"What's Happening" with Twitter?
There's a lot of change going on with Twitter these days. Recently we got the highly-anticipated Lists feature , which helped us to organize our streams and discover new, interesting people to follow. Then Twitter began rolling out its retweet ...
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YouTube Launching Automatic Video Captions
YouTube is readying the launch of an automatic captions feature for the site's videos. This and a new automatic caption timing feature will make it easier for anyone to add captions to their videos, and will enable anyone to read captions on more ...
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