A recent round of funding netted $55.2 million for ReachLocal.  A new strategic alliance is pretty important, too, however, as the company just became an Authorized AdWords Reseller.

At the back end of last year, I noticed how conversations with my clients about networked m

The 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is in Las Vegas this week. Startups and big brands alike are launching their products. They’ve got a blogger’s lounge this year too.

According to CES, the average U.S household has 25 consumer electronic products in it and U.S. consumer electronics sales should exceed $160 billion in 2007.

Journalism has changed, from something doled out to paperboys and bought for a dime on the way to the office, to world where writers may need to calibrate themselves for popularity.

At the end of 2007 digital music revenue in the U.S. grew to $1.98 billion and will reach $5.34 billion by 2012, according to a new report from the Yankee Group, "US Digital Music Forecast: What Fate Awaits Record Labels?"

Mahalo, everyone’s favorite human-powered search engine and Jason Calacanis venture, has announced a few more “socially” improvements to its site. One of the major updates leverages other social media sites; the other is frankly patterned after another.

Giving people a say in something is often a good way to get them involved, and Google wants folks to use its Checkout service.  The search giant has, as a result, offered users the chance to select as many as three fresh upgrades.

Eric Ward doesn’t mind pointing out that of the top ten Google results for "link building expert" his name pops up six times. Call it good keyword branding if you like, bust most in the SEO industry will tell you he’s earned his title. Because of that, it might sting a little more when he pens a lengthy I told you so about linking strategies.

The appeal of local search to people wanting to buy comes from a basic need to control their environment.

Viacom owned MTV Networks has partnered with five online video services in an effort to expand its online presence.

The word that was made famous a few years ago, now seems to be a necessary tactic for marketing.

“In today’s world, just about anybody can record their message, whether it’s educational, entertaining, or whatever, and get it disseminated to millions and millions of people at almost no cost,” said KFC Blanchette of Podchick.com and Skydivergirls.com.

At this point, filling a fallout shelter with food and cash may be the safest approach to 2008′s financial markets.  Failing that, though, Piper Jaffray thinks some of the stronger Internet corporations should provide a safe haven.

If a company’s big enough, a site outage lasting only five minutes is an embarrassing issue.  "Over 12 hours" is pretty terrible, then, and this is the amount of time for which Blockbuster Online ceased to work.

Online sales for pizza chain Domino’s rose 17.6 percent over the holiday period.

The makers of the Firefox browser have a subtle shift at the top of the organization, with former CEO Mitchell Baker asking Lilly to take the CEO title.

Microsoft has made an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer of Oslo that values the company at $1.2 billion.

CEO Jerry Yang told the CES 2008 crowds about Yahoo’s plans to make its Mail client a social tool with all the widgets one could want.