Archive for January, 2009

Yard Sales for Google and Microsoft? (New York Times)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Microsoft and Google have more in common than the dominance of their respective markets, says Breakingviews. Both are also essentially one-trick ponies that have used their prodigious cash flows to pursue many side projects in attempts to diversify.

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Belt-tightening at Google (CNN Money)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The plight of workers everywhere is bleak. Witness the turn of events at Google, where this past Christmas no armored car pulled up to the Googleplex to dispense a thousand bucks in crisp hundred-dollar bills to each and every employee, as one did the year before.

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Google ending newspaper ad sales program (International Herald Tribune)

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Google Print Ads, which sought to bring the company’s automated sales method to the newspaper industry, fell short of expectations.

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Yahoo Mail Gets an Antispam Boost (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Yahoo has taken new steps to sharpen its Webmail service’s antispam capabilities, including the adoption of two commercial technologies and the testing of an open-source system, the company said Tuesday.

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Cost-cutting Google scraps newspaper ad program (AP via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper industry, ending a 2-year-old attempt to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into another medium.

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Google to halt Print Ads program for newspapers (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Google Inc will kill a program to sell newspaper advertising because it is not making enough money, a blow to its efforts to expand its ad expertise beyond the Internet.

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Cost-cutting Google scraps newspaper ad program (USA Today)

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper industry, ending a 2-year-old attempt to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into another medium.

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Is Yahoo`s New CEO Up to the Challenge? (SEO Chat)

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Carol Bartz accepted what may be the biggest challenge of her career when she agreed to take on the post of Yahoo CEO. The venerable search engine s stock rose nearly two points on the news and then promptly fell seven percent. In this article we ll take a look at Bartz s background and what the future holds for the beleaguered search engine…. Pay Per Keyword new Online Ads System Advertise …

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Yahoo Cutting 20 Percent Of French Staff, Developers Bear The Brunt (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Yahoo is cutting about 52 staff from its 251-strong French operation under the group-wide reductions announced from the company’s Sunnyvale HQ in October. Engineering staff are taking a big hit from the restructure as Yahoo’s French sites carry proportionally engineers than other locations, the company told AFP: “The category of engineers is the most affected by the cuts at the global level … …

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Google Earth Gets A Better View Of D.C. (WebProNews)

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Some people have spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars to be in D.C. during the presidential inauguration.  For those folks who are interested but couldn’t find the money (or just didn’t feel like camping on someone’s lawn), Google Earth has at least unveiled some new imagery of the area. read more

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