Quantcast
Read WebProNews
With Friends!
Judge Won’t Dismiss Second Life Land Grab Case

Warning: The lawyers involved with this topic will take your mind and twist it until it bursts forth with cerebral irreconcilability. Be assured, this is real and, probably, legal. Just hit the reset button on your synapses and you should be fine.

Google Invests In Israeli R&D Center

Google, as we know it, is pretty much an American corporation.  You hear things from Google India, and some pieces of news will originate in Google Australia, but otherwise, it’s pretty quiet out there.  Now things have picked up in one very calm corner of the world – Google is adding a second research and development center in Israel.

Safety Drives Teen Mobile Growth
· 1

The growth of tween (children ages eight to 12) and teen cell phone subscribers will outpace that of the overall U.S. population according to a new report from Jupiter Research, "Mobile Subscriber Acquisition: Marketing to Parents, Teens, and Tweens."

Adobe Spins Up LiveCycle ES
· 46

The financial and government sectors drove plenty of the work performed in preparing LiveCycle ES for its debut in the enterprise market.

YouTube Gives Straight Dope On Big Pharma

Add Big Pharma to the list of corporate magistrates that will faithfully and gradually raise consumer ire – that list already including Congress, Big Oil, telecoms, cable, tobacco, and media – as "the people," i.e., the organic proletariat that operates outside of the boardroom, subvert the previously impenetrable by taking their complaints to YouTube.

YouTube Gives Straight Dope On Big Pharma
“YouTube Gives Straight Dope On Big Pharma”
YouTube Gives Straight Dope On Big Pharma
The Street Launches Blog Search Engine

TheStreet.com has launched StockBlogr, a blog search engine focused on financial blogs that offer investment advice, stock information and trading strategies.

NYT Gets The Goods On Google

When SEOmoz’s Rand Fishkin calls something “quite possibly the best mainstream media article about Google, or modern search technology, in the last 5 years,” it’s pretty much our duty to cover it.  When Rand Fishkin writes 800 words about said article, well . . . we know better than to condense and summarize.

YouTube, Hearst-Argyle Form Partnership

YouTube has formed a partnership with Hearst-Argyle Television. Beginning today local Hearst television stations will begin posting local video content to dedicated channels on YouTube.

Baidu May Emerge In Europe

Baidu owns a huge share of the Chinese search market, despite attacks from Google and Yahoo.  That success is likely due to its home field advantage.  We may soon find out how Baidu will fare outside the Great Firewall, however, as reports indicate that the company may expand into Europe.

Automated Content Development & Moral Dilemmas
Fantomaster had a great comment about whether automated content generation is moral:

Hilary And Mitt Making A Mint

Another useful service has emerged from OpenSecrets.org, the site that tracks Congressional fundraising, with a look at how Presidential candidates spend what they have earned.

Microsoft Building New Engine, World Shrugs

Rumors of a new effort by Microsoft to tap Silicon Valley’s bright young techies and build a better search engine have been met with a collective arching of the shoulders.

Why Have The Yahoos Departed?

We have seen three Yahoo executives announce departure plans in the past month, and we have to wonder why they have opted to log out of the portal company.

Advertise Better By Advertising Less

Matt Haughey dug around in his site analytics and found out he might be able to make more ad revenue by not showing ads to his most ardent visitors.

Revolution Health Traffic Getting Fit

Former AOL head man Steve Case has been actively promoting his latest venture, Revolution Health, and the website is seeing a rise in visits.

Senate Says June National Internet Safety Month
· 1

With social networking sites such as MySpace and LiveJournal coming under criticism for not doing enough to protect children online, the United States Senate has passed a resolution making June "National Internet Safety Month."

Google Earth Explores The Ocean Deep

Privacy issues with Google’s new Street View may be grabbing headlines, but Google Earth has gone for some truly wet and wild stuff: a hydrographic survey of the seabed surrounding Great Britain.

Internet Marketing Mostly Perseverance

A few months ago, I told the story of Imran Khan, who emigrated to the United States from Pakistan at age 30 and has risen to CMO of Internet lending powerhouse E-LOAN. One of my readers asked me to fill in even more of the story. In my original post, I mentioned that Imran had sent out 500 resumes without landing an internship offer, but I never explained how Imran got his first big break.

Google Book Search Tool May Madden Microsoft

Everyone knows that Google and Microsoft are rivals, but the first area of competition that comes to mind does not involve books.  Nonetheless, the two appear to be at it again, and it seems as if Google is readying a new tool for attack.

Google Swallows Up FeedBurner

Google has announced it has acquired Chicago-based FeedBurner, a deal that had been rumored to be taking place since last week. Terms of the purchase have not been disclosed.

Big Guys Go Startup Shopping

I’m still trying to recover from the incredible two days that was the mesh conference, and will be posting updates and links to video, blogs, photos and reviews as I come across them, but in the meantime here’s a cross-post from my Globe and Mail blog in which I try to catch up with two of the many tech deals that occurred while I was en-meshed:

The Month of Acquisitions

There were numerous partnerships and acquisitions in the month of May, which included a lot of dollars changing hands. Let’s look at some of the major deals that went down this past month

TLE Lowlights: Innovation?

Over the last couple of days you have probably been reading some of the highlights from the recent trip I did to Paris to attend

TLE Highlights: The Irony of Social Computing

As I have just mentioned, this is a follow up weblog post from the previous one I have shared regarding some of the highlights from IBM‘s 2007 Technical Leadership Exchange event held in Paris last week.

  • Newsletter Signup
  • 1st 336×280
  • 336×130