Why Did The U.S. Government Kill Bain-3Com?
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
With $2.2 billion on the table, the U.S. government may well be the culprit for derailing the proposed buyout of 3Com by Bain Capital.
Bain formally withdrew its offer yesterday citing the equivalent of irreconcilable differences with 3Com over how to deal with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). 3Com is now seeking a $66 million breakup fee.
How did it all go so wrong?
Well from the start there were concerns about the third party in this deal, China-based networking vendor Huawei Technologies. In late November, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl.), ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called for a halt to the deal.
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Microsoft to Help Eclipse
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
While it may not fulfill the old cliché of “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” Microsoft is doing the next best thing when it comes to the Eclipse Foundation – best known for its Java-based, open source integrated development environment (IDE) project – and helping it.
This week, Microsoft committed to collaborating with the foundation’s Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) development team to allow Eclipse to use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the graphics platform underlying Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
LinkedIn’s New Company Profiles: Will They Rank in the SERPs?
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
LinkedIn’s New Company Profiles: Will They Rank in the SERPs?
LinkedIn has announced the creation of 160,000 company profiles as part of their career social networking site. But as recent Google rater guidelines show, LinkedIn profiles are considered relevant in search results, at least for individuals.
If this translates now to company profiles, will the select 160,000 businesses get a free boost in the SERP’s by LinkedIn? Will companies with keywords in the name of their business be able to get their LinkedIn profile to rank in the top 10 results in Google? It’s too soon to tell, and LinkedIn Company profiles are only visible to registered users.
According to IRS data, there were 5.7 million firms with employees in 2002.
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SEW Experts: Does A Close By Any Other Name Sell As Sweet?
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
SEW Experts: Does A Close By Any Other Name Sell As Sweet?
Not all conversions are created equal. Capturing an e-mail address, delivering a free white paper, or converting using other non-sale-related measurements can create varying values of a close. In today’s SEM Crossfire column, “Does A Close By Any Other Name Sell As Sweet?,” Frank Watson discusses the need to take into consideration more than just the raw number of conversions.
Is Microsoft Offering a Rose to the Wrong Bachelorette?
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
Is Microsoft Offering a Rose to the Wrong Bachelorette?
While Yahoo plays games with Microsoft’s acquisition bid, some are beginning to ask, “Why isn’t Microsoft buying AOL?”
One of the biggest concerns about a Microhoo is the expectation of a significant culture clash. The same sentiment does not exist when pondering a Microsoft/AOL marriage.
Additionally, Microsoft’s bid was unsolicited. Time Warner, on the other hand, has publicly said that it’s open to selling off AOL.
AOL recently doubled its audience with the acquisition of Bebo. Together, the social network and AOL’s instant messaging platform, AIM, reach 80 million users worldwide.
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Sony Faces U.S. Scrutiny Over Blu-Ray
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
The U.S. International Trade Commission said it would launch an investigation into some 30 companies including Sony (NYSE: SNE) on possible patent infringements related to Blu-ray disc players and other products.
The commission said on its Web site on Thursday that the products involved are short-wavelength light-emitting diodes and laser diodes used in such electronics as handheld mobile devices, traffic lights and high-definition DVD players.
The move is based on a complaint filed in February by Columbia University Professor Emeritus Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, who is seeking to block imports into the United States of a range of products that she said were infringing her patent.
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Election Year Brings New Efforts to Regulate Search Engine Data Collection
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
Election Year Brings New Efforts to Regulate Search Engine Data Collection
New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky has introduced a bill aimed at regulating the way search engines collect private data of its users. Similarly, in Connecticut, the General Law Committee of the State Assembly has a bill that seeks to tighten data collection rules on companies that serve ads on sites they do not own.
State laws attempting to restrict data collection are nothing new. Both Alaska and Utah have laws on the books preventing adware from serving up targeted ads based on the behavior of searches, specifically on trademarked keywords.
The Ooher PR that influences search ranking
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
The Other PR that influences search ranking
Our panel at SES NYC yesterday was about how to get authoritative links and what that can do for your search ranking. The moderator was Sage Lewis, panelists were Lee Odden, Chris Boggs and me.
Chris took the more traditional approach and explained how to leverage directories, associations and sponsorships.
Lee and I spoke about the other PR - public relations. SEO-PR is a term that has been around for about 4 or 5 years now. When optimizing press releases first became an option the PR industry did not adopt the practice.
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OOXML Stalemate May Lead to Cliff Hanger Ending
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft’s bid to upgrade Open Office XML’s (OOXML) status to that of an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard is starting to look like a good old fashioned cliffhanger.
Microsoft confirmed Thursday that India’s delegation to the ISO process has voted not to change its vote from ‘No’ to ‘Yes’. That is, in the standards balloting last summer, India voted against OOXML being certified by ISO. This week’s decision means that it will maintain its No vote.
Microsoft and European standards body Ecma International lost that vote last summer – but only by five votes. After a final meeting of interested national delegations in late February, members had 30 days to decide whether or not to change their votes.
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Good And Bad News For AMD
Autor admin | 21.03.2008 | Category SEO
AMD has denied published reports that it has cut its workforce in anticipation of another gloomy quarter and declined to comment on how the quarter, which ends in a week, will shape up.
Some reports said AMD (NYSE: AMD) would cut about 5 percent of its workforce, which would translate to around 800 from its staff of 16,000 worldwide. The company refuted this and declined to speculate on what might happen after the first quarter results come out.
“We haven’t had a workforce reduction,” company spokesman Drew Prairie insisted to InternetNews.com. “As a matter of policy we don’t comment on rumor and speculation on what we may do in the future.”
On the plus side, the Quad Core Opteron, a.k.a.