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2008

Google Silently Turns On AdSense For Feeds

August 16, 2008 0
{mosimage}Snippets of Google’s acquisition of FeedBurner continue to seep out. After over two months of testing, Google on Friday silently turned on AdSense for Feeds, a service that was soft-launched to a small group of AdSense users back in May. Previously, these were FeedBurner ads, and once incorporated into publishers’ RSS feeds, it will serve […]
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AOL Scoops Up Socialthing To Connect With AIM
2008

AOL Scoops Up Socialthing To Connect With AIM

August 16, 2008 0
In a move that aims at strengthening AOL’s stable of social networks, the company on Friday confirmed that it has signed an agreement to acquire Socialthing!, a Boulder-based start-up that helps’ people handle the social networking sites they frequent, into its People Networks division, pending the satisfaction of certain undisclosed closing conditions. Affirming the news […]
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Facebook World’s Top Social Networking Mogul
2008

Facebook World’s Top Social Networking Mogul

August 14, 2008 0
Facebook World’s Top Social Networking Mogul San Francisco — According to the latest figures released Wednesday by web tracking firm comScore represents that Facebook has overtaken MySpace to become the world’s most popular social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in June, for a staggering 153 percent growth rate in the last year, according […]
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2008

Yahoo Close To Naming Biondi, Chapple To New Board

August 14, 2008 0
Yahoo Close To Naming Biondi, Chapple To New Board San Francisco – With former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller obviously out of the picture, Yahoo Inc. is at the concluding stages of vetting two new members, former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive Frank Biondi and John Chapple, the former CEO of Nextel Partners, nominated by billionaire activist […]
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2008

Yahoo™s Fire Eagle Geo-Location Service Knows Where You Are

August 14, 2008 0
Yahoo’s Fire Eagle Geo-Location Service Knows Where You Are San Francisco – Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday assembled at its San Francisco office, known as Yahoo Brickhouse, to announce the release of Fire Eagle, the company’s formerly experimental geo-location platform, a tool that provides an interface for updating, managing and storing information about locations, is now […]
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2008

Struggling Zune Player Eyes Original Video Content To Boost Sales

August 12, 2008 0
Los Angeles — According to a report in the Hollywood Reporter by way of Reuters, Microsoft executives are reported to have been hunting the Hollywood studios and production companies lately in anticipation of licensing exclusive original video content for the Zune media player to gain an edge on Apple’s iPod, which has struggled to gain […]
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2008

Microsoft Online Exec Steve Berkowitz Scales TheLadders.com Board

August 12, 2008 0
New York — TheLadders.com, the world’s largest online portal catering exclusively for prestigious jobs, on Monday announced the appointment of former Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz to its Board of Directors. Most recently, Berkowitz, who has served as senior vice president of the Online Services Group at Microsoft where he was heading the marketing, sales and […]
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2008

Gmail Outage Affected Millions Of Users, Google Solves Access Problems

August 12, 2008 0
{mosimage}Seattle — Google Inc. on Monday said that “many Gmail users” were unable to access the email service since about 2 p.m. Pacific Time after encountering a “502 Error” message that lasted a couple of hours caused a considerable stir. The malfunction occurred during the afternoon of August 11, US time. At 6:30pm (EST), over […]
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2008

Google, Yahoo Reveals Search Advertising Agreement Public

August 11, 2008 0
{mosimage}San Francisco — Internet search giant Google Inc. and web portal Yahoo! Inc. on Friday released a controversial excerpt of a pact covering their search advertising partnership that keeps secret financial terms and the extent of other ties between the two, marking the first time details of the deal have been made publicly available.
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2008

Yahoo Allows Visitors Opt Out Of Targeted Advertising

August 11, 2008 0
New York — Responding to a Congressional scrutiny about targeted advertising, Yahoo Inc., offering a concession to those supporting greater online privacy, last week said it would allow its Web visitors to turn off the customization of advertising on the pages of Yahoo.com. The “opt-out” option should be available at the end of August, through […]
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