Israeli Town Suing Google
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
Israeli Town Suing Google
Seems Google is being sued by a northern Israeli town because Google Maps claims it was built on an old Arab village, according to the International Herald Tribune.
This one will be interesting to watch, though one would think a simple correction would suffice.
The information was put into Google Maps by a Palestinian doctor, Thameen Darby, “raised in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said his mother was a refugee from to the village Balad al-Sheikh near Kiryat Yam.
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Microsoft Buys Mobile Software Firm Danger
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft has agreed to buy Silicon Valley–based Danger, maker of the software that drives T-Mobile’s Sidekick Web phone and runs Google’s new mobile venture.
Microsoft did not disclose the purchase price on Monday for privately held Danger.
The company, co-founded by Andy Rubin, specializes in software and services designed for the mobile Internet and is best known for the Sidekick, also known as the Hiptop.
“With all the excitement about what’s going on in the company right now, this is critical to our future and decisive for our future,” said Robbie Bach, Microsoft’s president of entertainment and devices.
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What’s it Really Like to Work at Google?
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
What’s it Really Like to Work at Google?
Many of us have have heard tales about Google’s storied culture, lifestyle, and talented employees. Yes, we’ve also heard about the food! Take a moment and dig into the details with Avinash Kaushik. He shares what it’s truly like to work at Google, hang out with the beautiful people, dream in color, create, and manufacture atomic powered ideas from intellectual metal.
He’s just published an emotionally introspective post, 10 Insights From 11 Months Of Working At Google, in which he freely shares specifics as concern day to day life among Googlers.
Who Is Avinash Anyway?
In the world of search marketing there are precious few true analytics luminaries.
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The adventure of going to SES London for the first time
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
The adventure of going to SES London for the first time
I expect that about half of the attendees at the Search Engine Strategies 2008 Conference & Expo in London will be going to the event for the first time.
“And what analysis led you to that deduction, Holmes?”
It was elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.
The event being held at the Business Design Centre in Islington Feb. 19-21, 2008, will be the fourth SES London that I’ve attended. At the previous three conferences, I’ve asked attendees to raise their hands if it was their first Search Engine Strategies. About half the people in the room raised their hands in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
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Yahoo Formally Rejects Microsoft Bid
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo Formally Rejects Microsoft Bid
As expected, the Yahoo board of directors has rejected Microsoft’s unsolicited bid to acquire the company. In a statement, the board said that the proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo or its stockholders:
After careful evaluation, the Board believes that Microsoft’s proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo! including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments.
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Another AOL Exec Leaves
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
Another AOL Exec Leaves AOL says aloha to strategic ad exec Dave Morgan, founder of AOL-acquired Tacoda. From a leadership standpoint, huge loss. Morgan was EVP Global Advertising Strategy. His departure essentially leaves AOL without a global advertising strategy while Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes splits and sells AOL. Doubtful any entrepreneurial execs would stay through the sale. Buyers: Yahoo? Google? MicroWho? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Impact on Yahoo-AOL talks? Negligible. Paid Content’s Rafat Ali broke the story and has the exclusive on why Morgan stayed at AOL for only 90 days - think startups & Platform A, not AvenueA or M&A. (Read the full post about ‘Another AOL Exec Leaves’…)
Gates Talks up Custom Office Apps
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft today is expected to release an update to its Office Live Small Business services, as well as other new and updated components aimed at more tightly tying online services with the company’s flagship Office productivity suite.
The announcements are slated to come during a keynote speech by chairman Bill Gates during the 2008 Microsoft Office System Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. It will be one of Gates’ last as a full-time Microsoft employee — he is leaving his current role at the company in July to concentrate on philanthropy.
During the keynote, shipping giant FedEx is expected to demonstrate an Office plug-in called QuickShip, which it designed to provide customers with shipping services integrated into the Outlook communications client.
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Video On The Web, Billions Served
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
Online video viewing in the U.S. broke new records in the month of December, according to the latest research by comScore’s Video Metrix service.
The research firm’s stats indicate U.S. Internet users watched a staggering 10 billion videos in the month of December, with Google’s YouTube service leading the charge as the most viewed destination site for videos.
“YouTube represents almost a third of all videos viewed on the Web for December,” Andrew Lipsman, senior analyst at comScore, told InternetNews.com. “And YouTube’s total keeps going up. It’s 12 percent higher than November.”
Google’s combined video sites accounted for 43 percent of unique video viewers in December.
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Tibco Releases ActiveMatrix 2.0
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
Tibco Software on Monday released its latest middleware platform for customers deploying and managing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) (define) in the enterprise.
ActiveMatrix 2.0 provides expanded integration, governance and application development capabilities that allows companies to build and manage SOA applications and services supporting Java, .Net and service mediation. It also lets users create applications incorporating services written and developed on multiple programming languages.
ActiveMatrix 1.0 was first released in December 2006.
“The biggest lesson learned from customers using ActiveMatrix 1.0 is that SOA is not a magic bullet,” Matt Quinn, Tibco’s vice president of product strategy, said in an interview with InternetNews.com.
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AOL Yahoo Talk Merger - Microsoft Rebuked
Autor admin | 11.02.2008 | Category SEO
AOL Yahoo Talk Merger - Microsoft Rebuked Yahoo merges with AOL, saves Time Warner and re-Bewkes Microsoft. That’s a best case scenario for Yahoo from investment bank advisers at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. The i-banks are advising Yahoo on mergers with media and technology firms that might snatch Yang & Co. from the jaws of Microsoft. On Sunday, Siobhan Kennedy and Suzy Jagger of The Times Online (UK) broke the story AOL may emerge as Yahoo’s exit strategy from the Microsoft $45 billion (give or take a billion) bid. An AOL merger leads the pack of deals Yahoo and its i-bank M&A advisers are pursuing. Not long ago Yahoo failed to close a deal for AOL. (Read the full post about ‘AOL Yahoo Talk Merger - Microsoft Rebuked’…)