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| UPDATED: 2008-10-17 |
 Bill Heards $2.2 Billion Reputation Lesson You know me; always on the lookout for examples of why its so vital to maintain a positive business reputation. So, Im probably the only...
Any Second Now, Google Will Acquire... I dont know The Inquirers success rate in speculating on upcoming acquisitions, but the site sure seems convinced that Google is about to acquire Valve:
YouTube Sued by Italian Broadcaster for $780M... ...Apparently Doesnt Understand Why. If Google has a legal achilles heel right now, its got to be YouTube. The search engine knew it was buying...
Rumor Mill: Microsoft Expecting $100M... ...Powerset Acquisition to Save the Day? Just six weeks after its coming out parade, natural language search engine Powerset is the subject...
comScore Buys M:Metrics... ...Now Will You Believe Its the Leader? Despite the recent bumps in the road, comScore still claims to be the leader in online measurement.
Glams $1.3B Valuation Explains Why Start-Ups... ...Chase the Build Now, Add Revenue Later Model. On Tuesday, I explained why chasing the "free" start-up model was killing...
CNET Acquired for $1.5B; Offers 45%... ... Premium to Keep Dissenting Investors Happy. CBS is paying a 45% premium in order to buy CNET for $1.8 billion!
Yahoo Nails Q1 Earnings, But Scaring Off... ...Microsoft Appears to Hurt Share Price. As expected, Yahoo pulled out all the stops to try and impress Wall Street with its first quarter earnings.
Googles Q1 2008 Grows 31%; Sticks it to... ...comScore. Well so much for the comScore numbers! While the research company had Wall Street in a panic, with its 1.8% paid click...
AOL Buys Sphere; Pays Less than $400 PCP How would you like to create a blog widget and then sell it less than three years later for $25 million? Ah yes, the dream of all internet...
Microsoft Meets with Yahoo to Make Its Case The WSJ is reporting that execs from Microsoft met with Yahoo in an effort to convince the company to accept their unsolicited bid.
Europe Set to Green Light Googles DoubleClick... ...Acquisition. Proving that being labeled a monopoly really depends if you company is named Microsoft or not, Google is set to get a...
Did Yahoo Buy Bebo for $1 Billion? TechCrunch is reporting rumors"for the umpteenth time"that social network Bebo has been acquired for $1 billion. While TCs betting on Google...
Yahoo Acquires Video Platform Maven Networks Subscribers of the Marketing Pilgrim Link Blog would have spotted a rumor two weeks back that Yahoo had acquired online video publisher...
$2000 a Share Seems a Long Way Off... ...for Google. If you were banking on Henry Blodgets prediction that Google would soon reach $2,000 per share, you might want to re-consider...
Google's Page & Brin Will Call it Quits in 2024? Now heres a tidbit of info that might make Wall Street feel warm and fuzzy. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin made a pledge...
IAC/InterActiveCorp Faces Lawsuit... ...to Remove Barry Diller. I wonder if Jim Lanzone is quietly chuckling to himself over news that LIbert Media is suing to have Barry Diller...
Microsoft Still Several Years Away... ...from Online Ad Success. If youre an investor in Microsoft (MSFT) then youre no doubt rejoicing at the companys recent quarterly numbers.
Who Wants to be a Google Millionaire? Ive probably used that headline before, oh well, Im sure CNET has profiled Googles millionaires before, so well just call it quits.
Google Responds to Search Engine Patent Lawsuit We have an update to the story we brought you back in November involving a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Northeastern...
Facing a Reputation Crisis, Network Solutions... ...Front-Running Practice. As we reported yesterday, Network Solutions has been in a lot of deep-water after many people discovered the company...
Google Neglects Jaiku So Users Switch to Twitter Over at ars technica, theres talk of Jaiku users fleeing to Twitter due to the lack of any innovation since being acquired by Google.
Viacom Signs Advertising Deal with Microsoft It appears that Googles jilted lover, Viacom, is not content with simply suing the search engine and jumping into bed with rival Yahoo.
Yahoo Partners with Adobe to Bring Ads to PDFs If youre thinking of creating an e-book and cant decide whether to give it away for free or charge for your hard work, you now have a third option.
Retailers Primed for Cyber Monday Reading through my RSS feeds this morning, I was shocked at the distinct lack of anything news-worthy"surely companies are over their...
Google & Go Daddy Partner on Webmaster Tools How do you ensure that any new web site owner becomes instantly obsessed with their Google optimization efforts? Get them addicted...
Hulu.com is Ready for After months of hype and positioning, NBC/News Corp-back Hulu.com is ready to launch"and we assume ready to fail.
TechCrunch Backs-up Our Google Social... ...Network Theory. Last Thursday, I shared my opinion on why Microsoft needed the Facebook deal more than Google did. Heres the...
Microsoft Enjoys Great Quarterly Earnings Microsoft had a perfect storm of positive trends to help with its most recent quarterly earnings. Sales of the XBox 360, Halo 3, Windows Vista...
Why Microsoft Needed Facebook... ...& Google Didnt. So, after weeks of speculation, Microsoft won the battle over Facebook, with Google second, and Yahoo embarrassingly...
Facebook Sells 1.6% to Microsoft... ...for $240 Million. In a conference call a few minutes ago, Facebook and Microsoft announced a deal that sees the software giant taking...
Blog Networks Bringing Home the Bacon The San Francisco Chronicle has an inspiring article on the growth of professional blogs and blog networks - inspiring that is...
Google's Q3 Profit Up 46% If you hold shares in Google, you probably already know the search engine had a great third quarter. For the rest of us, heres the summary...
InfoSpace Sells Mobile Unit to Motricity... ...Whats Left? It appears the TBJ was on the money with their prediction Durham-based Motricity would buy the mobile services...
ADSDAQ Launching Self Service... ...Ad Exchange Platform. You might have noticed a few changes to Marketing Pilgrim today. Last night, I signed-up for a sneak peak of the new...
Facebook Traffic Declines - Abandon Ship... ...or Deja Vu? We have good news for Om Malik. The new media guru is a little concerned about Facebooks recent decline in traffic.
Associated Press Suing to Prevent You... ...From Linking to Them. Just when you thought old media was starting to understand the value of opening-up their content for all to see...
T-Mobile UK Spends $300,000+... ...Per Week on Search. T-Mobile UK shared advice and experience on search marketing with WebTrends Engage attendees. Check out how much the company spends on paid search!
Google Challenges Baidu for China Market Share Its interesting to watch Googles growth in China. When you look at Baidu, you think theyre too well entrenched and will always be #1.
Will Google Turn to HTC for GPhone... ...Production? Forbes is keeping the Google GPhone speculation going with the suggestion that Google could turn to little-known cell phone manufacturer, HTC. As weve already...
Wow, Ex-Googler Vanessa Fox Worth... ...$30+ Million! Everyones talking about Zillows new $30 million round of VC funding. I wasnt sure what angle to focus on"then it hit me.
Zimbra Email Acquired by Yahoo It seems Jerry Yang is determined to make sure his first 100 days go out with a bang, with the announced acquisition of email and...
Apple Salvages Reputation with iPhone... ...Consolation. When Steve Jobs announced the $200 price reduction of the 2-month old iPhone, many of Apples early adopters cried foul.
Yahoo Acquiring BlueLithium Ad Network Yahoo has just announced their plans to acquire ad network company BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. BlueLithiums products, technology...
PayPerPost Secures $10M... ...Prepares Launch of "Argus". While Marketing Pilgrim has never accepted direct payment for a blog post review, it seems enough...
Morgan Stanley Massaging YouTube... ...Revenue Numbers? How about a nice massage to start off your morning? Sorry, no scented oils or sounds of crashing waves here.
Yahoo Defends Decision to Cooperate with China Yahoo is asking for the dismissal of a court case brought against them for handing over information to the Chinese authorities...
Freakonomics Blog Announces Partnership... ...with The New York Times. When Mashable reported that the blog Freakonomics" which shares the same name and authors of the popular book...
The Gold Rush to Sue Google... ...Over YouTube Copyright Infringement. Now that Google has announced plans to use better copyright detection technology...
Business.com Reportedly Sold for $350 Million Business.com moves on to the next chapter of its overpriced life, with R.H. Donnelley acquiring the company for a reported $350 million - in line with what we reported in June.
AOL Acquires Ad Network Tacoda AOL has decided that its recent acquisitions of Third Screen Media, AdTech AG, Lightingcast and Advertising.com, didn't quite send the message...
Nokia Acquires Twango to Boost Mobile Content Nokia has announced the acquisition of Twango a service for sharing and organizing photos, videos and other media.
Online Video Advertising to Reach $4.3B by 2011? eMarketer is predicting a huge surge in online video advertising spending over the next four years, with this years $775 million...
Facebook Haunted by 3 Year Old Suit While Facebook continues to attract media attention - with talk of acquisition partners or an IPO - it's haunted by a ...
Google Waiting for Facebook to Approach Thanks to Jordan's excellent coverage, Marketing Pilgrim has become the unofficial Facebook rumor blog and today we have more to share.
Google Faces Legal Action from Australia It's one thing when a company decides to sue Google. Google's typical "we believe the claims are without merit and we will...
Google Explains Why it Bought DoubleClick Google has posted a beginners guide to why they bought DoubleClick. The posts covers the background of both ...
MySpace Founders Ask News Corp for Another $50M How about some salary negotiation brinkmanship to start off your day? Better yet, how would you like the idea of getting paid $12.5 million a year?
Another Yahoo Executive Departure It looks like Yahoo's not quite finished with the changes, which began with the departure of Semel and appointment of Yang and Decker.
Business.com Worth $400 Million? I don't fully recall, but I think I was one of those that thought the domain Business.com was overpriced (they paid $7.5m for it)...
Yahoo Board to See Changes? CNET is suggesting that Yahoo might also see a change to its board of directors, to go along with the switch at CEO.
Web Spend, Broadband, China Users - Going Up If I had a nickel for every internet study released, I'd be
SEO Worth $5 Million? Dont panic, the bottom didnt just fall out of the search engine optimization industry, its still very much healthy.
Calacanis Launches Search Engine One way to ensure your new human-powered search engine is a success is to give it a Hawaiian name.
Schmidt Convinced DoubleClick Deal Will Get Approval Speaking at the Seoul Digital Forum today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told reporters that he fully expects...
Google Forming Alliance with Salesforce? We have a trifecta of rumors for you this Monday morning, starting with this one from the Wall Street Journal.
Rumor Mill - MySpace Buying Flektor? After giving photo slide show newcomer, Flektor, the thumbs-up on May 11th, TechCrunch is now reporting rumors that...
Google Press Meeting - Acquisitions It seems the recent acquisitions of YouTube and DoubleClick have helped Google become...
Google Press Meeting - Stock Split Theres a lot of great reports coming from Googles annual press and shareholder meeting...
SonicMountain Acquires Odeo Back in February we reported that Evan Williams had decided to sell-off podcast service Odeo...
More eBay Stumbleupon Rumors Tech CEO's are a tricky bunch. Whenever asked about deals or new products, their speech...
Joost Expands Video Content Partners I've not actually seen Joost yet, so can't actually tell you if it's actually living up to the hype, or not, but they've secured another content provider...
Is Microsoft Buying Yahoo? Nothing like a bit of rumor and speculation to kick-off a Friday. The New York Post is reporting that Microsoft is tired of losing...
Google Decides to Fight Back Rough Against Viacom Google has filed an answer to Viacoms copyright lawsuit and according to Rob Hofs summary, the search engine is not taking any chances with its defense.
Zunch Files for Bankruptcy SEL reports that Zunch has filed for bankruptcy, owing more than $750,000 in debts, including $200k+ to JupiterMedia.
Google Gunning for Microsoft Some interesting thoughts shared by two Gartner analysts that track every move of Google and Microsoft.
Autonomy Takes Over Blinkx What do you know about Blinkx? Its a video search engine with some cool algorithms, right?
Viacom Against Google Does Viacom have a grudge against Google? Thats the topic I explore in my latest article for Business Week. Heres an extract
Google Buys Video Conferencing Company Theres just no stopping Google. Seriously, if youve bought into the idea that Google is not a threat to your business, its time to re-evaluate that position.
Google Acquires Tonic Systems Google has announced the acquisition of Tonic Systems, which will help it to launch a PowerPoint competitor by the summer.
Views on Googles Acquisition of DoubleClick Rest assured, Im not going to bombard you with every news item that happens to mention DoubleClick - the last thing I want to be is the Entertainment Tonight of marketing news!
Sour Grapes in Google, DoubleClick Deal What is the best way to act, when youve been out-bid for DoubleClick by Google. You walk away with your head held high and at least keep your dignity, right?
Googles Tax Breaks May Spark Lawsuit The cynic in me cant help but focus on the awesome publicity that Bob Orr is going to get by leading a group that plans to sue over the tax breaks, given to Google, as an incentive for building a data center in Lenoir, NC.
Google Invests in Chinese Browser Someone needs to keep track of TechCrunchs success-rate with their rumor-mill postings (which I am sure is high).
Australians Increasing Online Ad Spend According to eMarketer, new studies suggest that major Australian advertisers plan to allocate as much as 22% of their total marketing budgets to online advertising.
Google Becoming the Next Microsoft? Theres still talk that Google could become the next Microsoft. The U.K.s Guardian looks at the similarities between...
NBC & News Corp Rumors tend to have a little more substance when they're reported in places like the LA Times and TechCrunch.
Google Wins KinderStart Case Again, Spanks Lawyer's Butt Google probably couldn't have asked for a better ruling in the ongoing KinderStart law suit.
Comcast May Dump Google for Microsoft paidContent.org, has extracts from a WSJ article suggesting cable company Comcast is unhappy with the amount of revenue generated via their deal with Google, and may turn to Microsoft.
Should Google Buy Intuit or Freshbooks? Nicholas Carr and Rob Hyndman are at odds over whether Google should acquire Intuit - maker of Quicken and QuickBooks - or new kid on the block, Freshbooks.
Google Will be Good for Lenoir The New York Times (via CNET) has a great follow-up story on Google's decision to build a server farm...
Fox Interactive Media Acquires Strategic Data Corp News Corp's Fox Interactive Media has acquired Strategic Data Corp. Fox Interactive hopes Strategic's interactive ad targeting technology will help the company better target advertising on sites it owns, such as MySpace.
Odeo Hopes to Avoid Dead Pool, Up for Sale When Evan Williams bought back Odeo in October, it looked like the newly formed Obvious Corp, would keep growing the podcasting site.
Lenoir Officials Abandoned Economic Study of Google Tax Incentives Wow, it's going to be hard for Lenoir and Caldwell County officials to keep justifying their decision, to provide Google with 30 years of tax breaks... |
