Earlier this year we were discussing some of the major pitfalls regarding AOL’s lively hood as an ad network. Not only did they close all global operations and sever ties with Time Warner. . .AOL has sought to revitalize it’s entire online approach. Instead of being a bloated online portal and former ISP, the New [...]
Is Yahoo too big to fail? That’s what everyone is trying to figure out. In the midst of workforce cuts and sluggish revenues, the one-time search engine giant is taking the scalpel to more of its web properties. In a report by the Wall-Street Journal and followed up by Ad Week, Yahoo plans on shutting [...]
You could probably say it’s an elite club when you’re the only member. As reported by the Financial Times, JCPenney.com became the first major retailer to launch a full-scale store completely operational within Facebook. You can browse, share and make purchases without ever leaving the popular social networking site. I’m sure Chris Anderson, who proudly [...]
Enough about search trends. Let’s talk Twitter. Google Trends is great and we’ll get back to that later, but for now – Twitter exposed some rather interesting stats in 2010. From your favorite and least favorite movie, events, technology, mobile apps, World Cup. . . the list goes on and on. Out of 2 billion [...]
To no one’s surprise, and probably a little dismay, Google opened it’s Chrome store offering free and paid apps to those wishing to take the plunge. Or already have. Boasting of new web apps for the self proclaimed fastest browser ever, Google says the store is currently available to U.S users and other countries should [...]
Even though the holiday season is barely a month old, online buyers are starting to come out in droves. Consumers have already shelled over $16 billion in the first 33 days of this cycle, according to a report from Comscore.com. And, there’s still 20 days till Christmas. This years totals give a 12% boost in [...]
It looks like Google is stealing a page out of Microsoft’s play book. If you can’t beat em. . . buy em. In an attempt to increase its footing in local and social advertising markets, Google is plotting to purchase the discount / coupon / social shopping engine, for a starting sum of $5.1 billion. [...]
You would think volleyball, street hockey, free food and 20% personal time would be enough to keep and entice workers to Google. Yes, for some. Google isn’t taking any chances, however. In a clear sign to keep Googlers from jumping ship and joining rival Facebook, the search engine giant is giving all employees a 10% [...]
A company who considers themselves “the next generation television network” has recently announced it surpassed over 100 million in monthly video views. Blip.tv recently surpassed the 100 million view threshold by racking up 113 million views in October, with predictions of reaching of 137 million views in November. According to the report, Blip.tv has reached [...]
If things couldn’t get any worse for the Dallas Cowboys, well, today they did. Two days removed from a shellacking by the Green Bay Packers, some were wondering if “The Boys” had packed it up for the season and went trucking down Randol Mill Rd. If it wasn’t for the Texas sized ego of their [...]
A new report by Forrester Research is bound to pour even more salt into what is now the wound of traditional publishing. According to the report, customers are on pace to surpass over $950 million in e-book purchases by the end of the 2010. The reported noted, even with all of the tremendous growth seen [...]
More spam is coming to an inbox near you. According to a report from researchers at software vendor APP River, the total number of Spam making its rounds and hitting inboxes, increased 28% from September. The report went on to say, the total number of spam e-mails circulating last month ranged from 80 million to [...]
