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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/23/09
Online Media:
Microsoft, News Corp. discuss web deal to remove news sites from Google.
Sony online service to challenge iTunes?
Online Retail:
EBay search glitch [...]
Posted: Monday, November 23rd 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 11/16/09
Online Advertising:
Google trademark policy worries holiday advertisers.
Online Payments:
More ways to avoid cash or plastic at checkout.
Media Strategies:
Comcast [...]
Posted: Monday, November 16th 2009
Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09
Web 2.0 News and Trends:
Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009
Yahoo Drops $150M Worth of Alibaba Shares
Yahoo is preparing to sell 57.48 million shares of Alibaba.com, China's largest B2B marketplace. The sale will raise about $150 million -- the full 1.14% stake it purchased four years ago.
When Yahoo made the purchase, Alibaba took charge of Yahoo China. The department recently restructured, during which much-used classifieds service Koubei was transitioned to Taobao.com.
In part because of this, tension has begun to rise between Yahoo and Alibaba, [...]
Posted: Monday, September 14th 2009
Bandwidth-Thirsty Developing World Poses Threat to Web's Bottom Line
Photo-sharing sites, social networks, and video distributors (e.g., Flickr, Facebook, YouTube) are booming in developing nations like Turkey, India, and Brazil - but struggling to turn a profit from online advertising alone.
Internet entrepreneurs have always operated under the ideals of uniting everyone in a single online "village" by providing free services to [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 28th 2009
Google To Facilitate Indian Elections
Google launched the Google India Elections Center to help engage and prepare India’s 700 million eligible voters for next month’s general elections, reports TechCrunch.
Google has organized similar web-based election centers in the US and Australia in the past, but Google India’s election center offers new features which [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th 2009
Glam Strengthens Foothold in Land of Rising Sun
Vertical content network Glam Media has received an investment from Mizuho Venture Capital, as well as a second round of investment from Germany's Hubert Burda Media -- a company with which it strategically liaised in 2008.
In addition to Mizuho, the company's Japanese arm, Glam Media Japan KK, is enjoying infusions from Dentsu and ADK, publishers Shogagukan and Syueisya, and news/pr [...]
Posted: Monday, April 6th 2009
GOOG, Record Labels Plot to Dethrone Baidu, Scoop China
In an ongoing attempt to bait advertisers and a broader slice of the Chinese audience, Google's Chinese arm has formed an alliance with a number of music labels, including EMI, Warner Music Group and Vivendi's Universal.
The labels will work in tandem to provide free music downloads to anyone in China.
usic, said they would seek to profit here by working with Google and offering free downloads of music to anyone inside China.
At present, China host the [...]
Posted: Monday, April 6th 2009
Glam Takes Mumbai with AdaptiveAds Acquisition
Glam Media, an ambitious women's network that breaches both online and traditional media, has acquired AdaptiveAds, a display ad targeting/optimization startup based in Mumbai.
The technology will be incorporated into Glam Media's Glam Media Evolution brand platform.
"AdaptiveAds supercharges Glam Media’s brand engagement technology, delivering insight into how ads behave with different audiences and giving brands the ability to dynamically act based on this knowledge," said Chairman/CEO [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 29th 2009
World Internet Audience Tops 1B; China Has Most Visitors
The global internet audience surged past the one-billion mark in December 2008, fueled by users in China -- the largest online population in the world -- and the Asia Pacific region, accounting for over two-fifths of total visitors, according to World Metrix data released by comScore.
[...]
Posted: Monday, January 26th 2009
PC Market Growth Plummets in Q4
Following roughly six years of growth, with the last five averaging 15% increases, worldwide PC shipments fell 0.4% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2008 (4Q08), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, reports Retailer Daily.
The slowdown was enough for a sequential decline of 2.5% from [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 20th 2009
China Knuckles Down Harder on 'Vulgar' Web Content
China expanded its crackdown on "vulgar" online content to 14 additional sites, including Microsoft's MSN, reports Reuters.
The ruling Communist Party also accused Google of doing an insufficient job of policing its own search results.
Google took significant flak from American users when in 2006 it [...]
Posted: Monday, January 12th 2009
WPP Trims Thousands, Ogilvy Already Under the Knife
WPP, which employs more than 100,000 people, plans to cut several thousand jobs worldwide, reports MediaBuyerPlanner.
The staff-slimdown will take place where labor costs exceed 60% of revenue, the Guardian said.
According to R [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 7th 2009
Chinese Web Portal Buys Media Co.'s Offline Biz
Sina Corp., one of China's biggest internet portals, is acquiring a portion of Focus Media, an advertising and digital media company that was valued at more than $7 billion just over a year ago.
Fierce competition in China and the slowdown in advertising drove the 5-year-old company's value down over the past year, to the point where its core holdings are being sold for just $1.4 billion in stock, [...]
Posted: Friday, December 26th 2008
Japan to Purge Google Street View from Its Cities
Japanese lawyers and professors have banded together to ask Google to stop providing street-level images of the country's cities online.
Google Street View lets Google Maps users zoom directly to the ground floor of certain cities, providing a photographic view of the area from the perspective of a pedestrian or driver. 12 Japanese cities have been profiled this way, as well as 50 US cities and certain parts of Europe, [...]
Posted: Monday, December 22nd 2008
'New Technology' Enabled Terrorists in Mumbai Attacks
Terrorists that struck Mumbai last month demonstrated sophisticated use of modern technology to organize their attacks. The news casts a less jocular sheen on a recently-released US Army report about seemingly-idle mobile and web technologies that could be used to enable terrorism.
Before launching their att [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 9th 2008
Google Grabs 76% of US Search Spend
Google continues to dominate the market for search advertising spending, with a 76% share in Q3 2008, while Yahoo gained 1.8 points to bring it to 19.2% and Microsoft Live Search held steady at a 4.8% share, according to search engine spending data from Efficient Frontier - MarketingCharts [...]
Posted: Friday, November 7th 2008
Nearly 40% of Online Japanese Visit Music Sites
Nearly 40% of the Japanese online population visited an entertainment music site in August 2008, and Japan had the highest penetration of users of Apple iTunes software for the month when compared with other countries, according to a study of music-related sites in Japan by comScore, MarketingCharts [...]
Posted: Thursday, November 6th 2008
GOOG, YHOO, MSFT Set Rules of Engagement for Iron-Fist Countries
Tech titans Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed upon a common set of principles to guide business dealings in countries that restrict free speech and expression.
The search and ad giants have previously been criticized for complying with China's censorship of certain material published online.
In 2006, Google agreed to filter search results on topics like Falun Gong, democracy, or T [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 29th 2008
Dell's Cheap 'Vestro' PCs Target Emerging Markets
Setting its eyes on a neglected niche, Dell is marketing a suite of low-cost computers to emerging markets like China and India.
Dell's Vestro units -- two notebook and two desktop PC models -- were built in Shanghai and shall target small business owners. Prices start at 3,299 yuan ($475) for the notebooks and 2,999 yuan ($440) for desktop PCs. They will be sold in 20 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 28th 2008