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Consider yourself forewarned: the official line is that "Facebook has no plans to go public at this time." Just the same, a financial maneuver the company's performing has raised a few eyebrows since it seems to point towards that possibility.
Jessica E. Vascellaro reported ...
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Yahoo conducted a survey of small business online retailers to find out how they think they'll perform this upcoming holiday season compared to previous years.
"Surprisingly, based on the current economic landscape, the results show an optimistic outlook, with over 60 percent of the ...
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Yahoo has started rolling out some new Search Assist features for its web search boxes. They are present in the search boxes of most Yahoo properties. For example, you can find them on Yahoo Sports, Yahoo News, or Yahoo Finance.
"These new features can take you directly to the ...
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A couple of major publishers are siding with (or at least edging towards) Rupert Murdoch in the News Corp./Google content dispute. MediaNews Group and A.H. Belo execs have said that they're interested in keeping Google away from parts of their sites.
Let's talk about MediaNews Group ...
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Is there a better way to kick off the Holiday season then slowly dragging yourself out of your tryptophan induced coma to go shopping during the wee hours of the day after Thanksgiving, more commonly known as Black Friday ?
Sure, Black Friday seems utterly atrocious when thinking about it. I ...
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Google is now offering some new formats for search ads. They have already been testing them in the U.S., so there is a chance you have already seen some of them if you live here.
Some of them include videos. Some include maps. Some include multiple links for different landing pages. Some of ...
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Google has introduced a feature that lets you send attachments in Gmail while you're offline. It works the same way as it would online, except that you can't include inline images.
"If you have Offline Gmail enabled, you'll notice that all your mail now goes through the outbox, ...
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Compete has shared some findings from a new study on consumer holiday shopping behavior. According to the firm, active online buyers (consumers who intend to spend over 30% of their holiday budgets online) have bigger budgets than other shoppers. Furthermore, they are more likely to spend that ...
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There's no need to start refreshing the Twitter Blog every five seconds; it doesn't sound like any pens are poised over paper at the moment. However, Biz Stone has made some statements concerning acquisitions that point to more of them taking place in the future.
"That is ...
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It has been discovered that Google is now showing AdSense ads inside Google Earth. While it is not that surprising to see Google putting ads on another one of its properties, it has raised a few eyebrows, given that Google Earth is a desktop application.
Google actually states in its policy ...
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After all is said and done Rupert Murdoch may still be seen as the sly old fox that really knew best. Many bloggers and journalists have pounded the insanity of Murdoch's suggestion that News Corp publications might strike an exclusive indexing deal with Bing and delist itself from Google's ...
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Google TV Ads is about to become a significantly more powerful marketing system. A new pact with TiVo will allow Google to gather (and then pass on) very precise data about which commercials are being viewed, and even (to a lesser degree) who is doing the watching.
Mike Steib, Google's ...
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Google has opened up the Chrome Extension Gallery (beta) to developers. This means that anyone can now upload their extensions. Google says it is making the upload flow available early so developers have time to publish their extensions ahead of Google's full launch.
"Once an extension ...
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The companies behind search engines sometimes try to attract more traffic by advertising. Establishing a partnership is another strategy, as is improving the actual search results. Microsoft might be ready to try something a little different, however, as a new report's indicated ...
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After all is said and done Rupert Murdock may still be seen as the sly old fox that really knew best. Many bloggers and journalists have pounded the insanity of Murdock's suggestion that News Corp publications might strike an exclusive indexing deal with Bing and delist itself from Google's ...
Online
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Microsoft
It's easy for businesses to get caught up in Google's expectations for their sites, when trying to market through search. That's certainly a wise thing to do, considering Google dominates the search market by a huge margin. Still, there are other search engines that people are using, and it is ...
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Bing has managed to turn retailers' heads in a big way. After looking at statistics from part of 2008, SearchIgnite reported that retailers spent almost 50 percent more with Microsoft's search engine this time around, which puts Google and Yahoo partly to shame.
Or, to be more precise, ...
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In this day and age, you pretty much can't ignore mobile users. The rate at which consumers are accessing the web via mobile devices is growing rapidly, largely thanks to the increasing popularity and production of smartphones.
Just having a mobile site isn't even enough. Sure, it's a great ...
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Update: Google has now announced that it is expanding availability of Google Maps Navigation to devices running Android 1.6 (Donut) and higher, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1.
Original Article: Google has launched Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 devices in beta. This acts ...
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LinkedIn has opened up its platform to developers. It can be accessed at developer.linkedin.com .
"Over fifty million users entrust their professional identities and relationships with LinkedIn, helping build LinkedIn into the largest global professional network today," says ...
