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44% of Google News Visitors Don't Click Through
The third annual News Users report from research firm Outsell has some interesting findings. While more and more people are going online for their news...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2010-01-22

Social Sites Help eCommerce...
... (and Your Annual Reality Check) The results are in: Cyber Monday (and Black Friday) = success! The numbers are actually up from last year...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2009-12-04

Google Falls Short for MySpace
There years ago, Google and MySpace signed a search deal. Google agreed to provide web, vertical and internal search and contextual ad sales for MySpace...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2009-11-06

Tax Fraud and the Internet
Yet another reason to be careful what you say online: the tax man cometh, and hes totally reading your MySpace. According to the Wall Street Journal...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2009-09-11

Financial Times Looks to MicroPayments
Micropayments have worked for companies like iTunes and even Amazon.com for songs and television episodes. But could they be the solution...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2009-08-14

IAC Profits, But Misses Expectations
Q4 2008 was an important time for IAC"it was their first full quarter going it alone, after they spun off four businesses, a change announced in...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2009-02-06

Yahoo Calls Microsoft Actions Stupefying
I think I've made a terrible mistake. Somehow, by using every clich in the book, I think I just guaranteed that I'll always have get to...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-07-18

Facebooks Latest Valuation: Less than $5B
If youve forgotten, just nine months ago, Microsoft purchased a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million. Doing the math from that...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-07-11

Yahoos Largest Stockholder Buys More
Yahoos second largest stockholder sent a thinly veiled message to Yahoo this week, telling them that Yahoos better off independent if Microsoft...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-04-11

Yahoos Sweetheart of the Week: AOL
News Corp & Yahoo? Soooo last week. The pairing du jour, according to Silicon Alley Insider, is Yahoo & AOL. While clearly not...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-19

AOL Up for Grabs
Despite continuing to acquire other companies, including Goowy and Buy.At marketing network, it looks like AOL is seriously losing steam.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-08

Will Social Networking Ever = Money?
Someone, somewhere is supposed to be raking it in from social media"but we never have figured out who that person is (unless its Mark Zuckerberg). We see the CEOs with their...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-06

You Can Make Six Figures in SEM...
... (If You Pay Your Dues). SEMPO, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, has released the results of...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-11

Online Holiday Spending for 2007: over $29B
comScores results from last years holiday season are in: the US spent over $29 billion in online holiday shopping. This is up 19%...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-08

Plaxo for Sale?
Rumors seem like more than just rumors when theyre printed by the New York Times, dont they? Well heres one that you can judge for yourself...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-04

The Newest Shopping Holiday: Green Monday
Dear Everyone Who Shopped Online Last Monday...Thank you. Thank you for hearing my plea. Thank you for vindicating me.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-19

Google/DoubleClick v. FTC...
...Round 15,627,734,234.7. As if the title werent enough to tip you off, take a peak at some of the headlines that have gotten my attention today...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-14

Cyber Monday Record Broken
Tired of hearing the Cyber Monday hype yet? Fight back with this factoid: this years record-setting Cyber Monday, with $733 million in online sales...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-11

Will Cyber Monday Be the Peak?
With all the hype surrounding Cyber Monday this year, I was actually surprised to find out that it was justified for once. comScore reports that ...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-04

Facebook to Face FTC?
Will Facebook have to face the Federal Trade Commission over their three-week-old Project Beacon and Social Ads platforms?
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-29

Facebook Venturing into Politics Coverage
There has been some backlash against Facebooks recently unveiled Social Ads during the first three weeks of its run, but Facebook is pushing...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-27

Ask Q3 Revenue Up; IAC, Not So Much
InterActiveCorp, owners of such diverse properties as the Home Shopping Network, Evite, Match.com, TicketMaster, CitySearch and...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-01

Hulu Integrating with MSN, AOL
Youve got to give the just-barely-in-time-to-be- called-an-October-launch Hulu private beta launch some credit: theyre trying really hard.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-30

NBC Leaves YouTube in Favor of Hulu
Frankly, NBC is just all over the map online. Theyve declined to renew their iTunes contract, started offering their shows on Amazon...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-25

Viacom: Copyright Detection or Not, Lawsuit...
...Still On! Google unveiled its long-awaited copyright detection system for YouTube earlier this week. But for at least one company...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-18

Yahoos Q3 Mixed Bag
Yahoo announced their Q3 earnings report yesterday: revenue was up, but net income was steady and earnings were down:
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-17

Yahoo/BlueLithium Gets FTC Approval
Just one month after their announcement, the $300 million Yahoo cash acquisition of BlueLithium is given the go ahead by the Federal...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-04

eBay on Skype: Whoops.
Business Week and the Wall Street Journal are all over eBays latest word on Skype"and that looks to be Whoops. After paying $1.3 billion cash...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-03

Yahoo Signs Global Mobile Deal
Yahoo announces today that they have come to an agreement with Telefonica, a Madrid-based mobile phone company with affiliated networks around...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-02

Microsoft on the War Path
The New York Times today covers Microsoft and their pending battle against Google/DoubleClick. No, not the legal mess theyve been pursuing...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-27

Hulu Setting Itself Up for Failure
Theres no other way to ensure your success than to tell everyone a month before your private beta launch that there will be failure...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-26

EU: Microsoft Is a Monopoly
In a decision handed down today, a European Union court upheld a lower courts ruling that Microsoft was a monopoly that abused...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-18

Yahoo Still Struggling to Please Shareholders
Earlier this year, Yahoos corporate leadership saw a major restructuring, presumably in an effort to turn the tide of their fortunes.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-11

NBC Ditches iTunes
Claiming theyre unable to come to an agreement on pricing, NBC Universal has declined to renew their contract with iTunes to sell downloads...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-31

Google, Yahoo Make Deals
Google and Yahoo have each announced major deals today. Both deals are continuations of previous business relationships.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-30

Facebook Really Does Make Money
Aside from Are you on Facebook?, it seems like everyones favorite question about the latest social networking phenomenon is...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-23

Yahoo Should Dig into Bank Account...
... to Dig Out Yahoos Q2 results, although disappointing, were far from surprising. Continued poor performance, management shake up...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-03

Rough Q2 for IAC
I wonder if Asks parent company is regretting spending the big bucks on Crispin, Bogusky + Porter yet"increased advertising costs for Ask.com was one of the many factors...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-01

Google's Q2 Revenue: Only Up 58%
Google Q2 earnings and income reports are in, disappointing Wall Street with only 58% growth YOY in revenue, 28.3% growth YOY in profits.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-20

Microsoft Q2 Earnings: High, but Not From Search
Microsoft also posted their second quarter earnings today, reminding us all that just because Live Search isnt doing so hot...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-20

Yahoo's Q2 Earnings Hold Steady, Revenues Up
Yahoo reported their Q2 results today. paidContent writes that Yahoo's Q2 2007 revenues of $1.698 billion are up 8% (or $122 million) over last year's Q2 earnings ($1.576 billion).
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-18

Answers Buys $100M Dictionary
Answers.com announced today that they've acquired Lexico Publishing Corp, which includes Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-17

Facebook to Make $100M This Year
Did you know that Marketing Pilgrim has recently been named the unofficial Facebook rumor blog by . . . okay, by us.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-17

Facebook to Give Away Big Money
I'm really, really, really sorry. I know that I totally slipped yesterday, and didn't report anything about Facebook. But don't despair, all.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-13

eBay Making its Move with Firefox/eBay Browser?
eBay's moving and shaking-today they unveil the Firefox/eBay browser, designed to make your online shopping a more pleasant experience.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-06

IPO Watch: comScore, LinkedIn, MySQL
It seems like every time a company does something really innovative (or just gets a lot of press), someone somewhere suggests ...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-27

Google Press Releases: Revenues & Search
Google Blogoscoped released an automated tool today that looks at word frequency in official press releases from Google ...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-21

Yahoo Acquires Some Rivals
Yep, Yahoo acquires rivals . . . but Yahoo didnt swallow up Google and MSN. They bought Rivals.com, a college sports site.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-21

Semel Out, Yang & Decker In at Yahoo
Apparently, we spoke too soon. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, whom shareholders were less than happy...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-19

Latest on Yahoo Shakeup
Rumors are flying thick and fast about what really happened in the Yahoo Shakeup. Was Semel forced out?
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-19

Mobile Content Revenues from Premium SMS
The Center for Media Research today reports on a new study on mobile content revenue, the Telephia Premium SMS Report.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-18

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel Unscathed
This week's Yahoo shareholder meeting meant that CEO Terry Semel would be facing some tough critics-disgruntled shareholders.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-14

Yahoo CEO, Board to Face Unhappy Shareholders
Yahoo's flagging morale-and marketshare-may lead to a lower paycheck for Yahoo CEO Terry Semel. Semel is still being compensated...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-12

YouTube, EMI and Apple Love Triangle
YouTube, EMI and Apple are all over the news today, linked together in different stories.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-01

eBay Confirms StumbleUpon Acquisition
As TechCrunch predicted (and we mentioned in passing earlier), eBay announced their acquisition of StumbleUpon today.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-31

Online Ad Spending Up in China and Russia
eMarketer reports that online advertising spending is on the rise in China and Russia....China
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-30

Google Acquires Feedburner
TechCrunch reports that rumors of Google acquiring FeedBurner have been confirmed. TechCrunch reports that Google paid...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-24

What's Ahead for Ask.com?
I guess we're all getting a little tired of writing about Google. Ask has been on the forefront of more than one person's mind lately.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-23

Arrington Predicts Facebook IPO
Duncan Riley at TechCrunch explores the options for still-indepedent Facebook. With talk of Yahoo eyeing...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-22

AOL Purchases ADTECH
Yes, in addition to buying Third Screen Media, AOL acquired the controlling interest in ADTECH AG.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-17

Facebook Partners with Oodle
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but Facebook is about the only social network I can stand.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-10

MySpace Acquiring Photobucket
Valleywag reports today that MySpace is acquiring Photobucket (okay, more accurately, it's News Corp., but whatever).
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-08


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