Back in April, Credit Suisse issued a report stating that YouTube stood to lose $470M this year. But now it looks like the financial services company was overly pessimistic (and, really, they’re probably just used to that, with the economy the way it is). New estimates from research company RampRate puts the losses for the most popular video website in the world far more conservatively:
Despite the global recession, revenues from streamed mobile music services and full-track downloads are expected to exhibit strong growth over the next 5 years, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
Google has released details of its recent trials with new ads on some of its properties.Users in the U.S. may have noticed new text and image ads Google is experimenting with on the results page of its Image Search.Google has also introduced "Sponsored Videos" on YouTube that the company says is "a great example of matching ads to content."
The financial service site operated by Google actually got two dates, allowing visitors to customize the range of activity they see with a stock.
Last week's letter war between Carl Icahn and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock was just a preview of what's to come. Ichan and company have challenged Yahoo's employee retention plan (Icahn calls it a severance plan) in a Delaware court. Slated to go to trial in July, the legal matter will be settled in advance of the annual shareholders meeting on August 1.
Real-time NASDAQ quotes, long the province of online brokerages as a perk for their clients, come to Google Finance as a new, free feature.
We haven't yet been promised an update, much less a timeline or any specifics relating to its release. Still, users of Google Finance have been asked to fill out a rather long survey, and it looks like this is a chance for people to influence the service's future.
When it comes to money, Brits probably don't need as much help as Americans; all other issues aside, it's our economy, more than theirs, that's heading into a recession. Still, we think Google's made a good move by introducing Google Finance UK.
Overcoming the inertia that keeps people going to other financial sites confronts Chris Jolley, group manager at Microsoft's Financial Products Group, every day. He believe MSN Money deserves a look.
Recently I had a chance to post at WPW some reputation management help for Rebecca Kelly from SEOmoz.org. Here is the thread from WPW:
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