Technical Analysis: Bulls Build Their Case
Autor admin | 01.02.2008 | Category SEO
More bullish developments today, with back-to-back 80% upside volume days on the NYSE and a close back above 1370 on the S&P (first chart below). That puts the S&P back inside the 15-month trading range that broke last month, while the strong upside volume could suggest a bottom, according to the work of Paul Desmond of Lowry’s Reports. The bulls have done just about everything we could have asked of them the last two weeks, but that doesn’t rule out a retest of the lows at some point. We’ve had a big decline in 52-week lows on the New York Stock Exchange, along with leadership from the NYSE advance-decline line (second chart). We’ve also had plenty of bearish sentiment — witness this week’s New Yorker cover. (Read the full post about ‘Technical Analysis: Bulls Build Their Case’…)
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Microsoft in Yahoo Acquisition Bid
Autor admin | 01.02.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft said on Friday it has offered to buy Yahoo, the popular Web portal, for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, seeking to join forces against Google in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger.
Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, a 62 percent premium over Yahoo’s closing stock price on NASDAQ Thursday. Yahoo shares jumped to $30.75 in premarket trading.
Yahoo said the online advertising market is growing rapidly and expected to reach nearly $80 billion by 2010 from over $40 billion in 2007. Yahoo added it is “increasingly dominated by one player,” referring to Web search leader Google.
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North Africa, Asia Recovering From Internet Outage
Autor admin | 01.02.2008 | Category SEO
— India’s Internet services were operating at about 80 percent capacity on Friday after breaks in undersea cables disrupted Web access, and normal services could be restored in a week, an industry official said.
The undersea cable connections were disrupted off Egypt’s north coast on Wednesday, affecting Internet access in the Persian Gulf region and south Asia, and forcing service providers to reroute traffic.
India’s booming outsourcing industry, which provides a range of back-office services like insurance claims processing and customer support to overseas clients over the Internet, played down the disruption, saying it had backup plans in place.
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Metasploit 3.1 Takes Aim at Windows
Autor admin | 01.02.2008 | Category SEO
Windows security researchers now don’t necessarily need to move to Linux to take full advantage of Metasploit 3.1.
Metasploit, a framework for developing, testing, and using exploit code, received its first major update since version 3 debuted in March 2007. (Allegedly, Metasploit has also been used in the past to help expedite Windows zero-day vulnerabilities.)
The new version promises numerous improvements, including hundreds of remote exploits for various platforms and technologies — including the iPhone. Metasploit 3.1 also provides full support for Windows with a complete graphical user interface.
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The Other Side of the MS/Yahoo Deal
Autor admin | 01.02.2008 | Category SEO
The Other Side of the MS/Yahoo Deal
It’s pretty obvious that this is all about the ad dollars. But they only get those dollars because we all go online to find news and information.
Eyetrack studies have shown us that many more people look at and click on organic search results than ads or sponsored links. So what would this merger mean in term of a search experience, organic results and news content?
comScore Media Metrix latest figures show Google now controls nearly 60% of the U.S. search market, and has been widening its lead, despite concerted efforts by both second-place Yahoo and third-place Microsoft. By combining, Microsoft and Yahoo would have close to 30% of the U.S.
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Amazon to Buy Audible For $300 Million
Autor admin | 01.02.2008 | Category SEO
Amazon.com said on Thursday it reached a deal to buy digital audiobook provider Audible for about $300 million, aiming to bolster its audio download collection.
Amazon has been building a digital music store to compete with Apple’s iTunes, and has signed deals with major music companies such as Vivendi’s Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.
One analyst speculated that Apple might want to counterbid for Audible. Even though Amazon would be paying $11.50 a share, a 23 percent premium to Audible’s Wednesday Nasdaq close of $9.33 a share, the price is still something of a bargain since Audible traded as high as $14.22 only about two months ago, he said.
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Microsoft Looks to Buy Yahoo
Autor admin | 01.02.2008 | Category SEO
Let the rumors rest in peace.
Microsoft today announced a $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, looking to combine forces in a move to combat Google’s dominant position in search and Internet advertising.
“This is a decision we’ve thought, and I’ve thought, very long and hard about,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during a conference call discussing the bid.
“We … see this announcement as the next major milestone in Microsoft’s transformation,” Ballmer said. “If you look at Microsoft and Yahoo, our companies really do share a vision for Web services, and advertising specifically.”
Yahoo responded in a statement, indicating that it would evaluate the terms of the unsolicited, $31-per-share proposal.
MSN and Yahoo Merged: How Would It All Mash Up?
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MSN and Yahoo Merged: How Would It All Mash Up?
Hold on tight SEM artists. Search marketing is mainstream bacon & eggs in America this morning. Even the “tease” story on the Today show was Microsoft’s “huge takeover bid to purchase struggling” Yahoo!
Microsoft’s profits have been soaring due to increased demand for computer software. Yahoo is in the dumper, having just laid off 1,000 people. Is this acquisition finally real?
In 2006, the SearchEngineWatch blog was aBuzz with “Microsoft buying Yahoo” posts and hashing out possibilities in search marketing forum chit-chat threads.
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Paid Search Advertising Drives Microsoft Bid for Yahoo
Autor admin | 01.02.2008 | Category SEO
Paid Search Advertising Drives Microsoft Bid for Yahoo The Microsoft conference call yielded little new information about the details of the Yahoo bid. Steve Ballmer stressed that scale and efficiency in online advertising platforms would drive the success of the deal. Microsoft execs said R&D innovations would drive breakthroughs in vertical search, mobile search, social search, and natural language search. Nice thought; won’t work in the marketplace. More “relevant” search results and social media innovations won’t solve the problem of Google’s dominance in paid search advertising. Microsoft-Yahoo still need to beat Google brand equity and searcher loyalty. Search is a habit. (Read the full post about ‘Paid Search Advertising Drives Microsoft Bid for Yahoo’…)
Yahoo Board, Sans Semel, to Consider Microsoft Bid
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Yahoo Board, Sans Semel, to Consider Microsoft Bid
Yahoo’s board of directors has issued a statement saying it will evaluate Microsoft’s unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Not surprisingly, the board will be doing so without the input of former CEO and chairman Terry Semel, who stepped down as chairman last night. He was replaced as CEO by founder Jerry Yang back in June, and has been busy staffing up his old Windsor Media venture, though it remains to be seen what form that former investment firm will take. Roy Bostock, who has sat on Yahoo’s board since May 2003, was elected to serve as non-executive chairman.
Semel’s departure may bode well for a potential Microsoft deal, since he’s been vocal in his disdain for such a merger.
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