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MSN Money Wants Its Day In The Sun

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.

SES Chicago: The I-word, Discussed

If you want to build up investment interest in your SEO/SEM firm, you have to make your company compelling enough to separate capital from capitalists.

Microsoft's CFO Discusses Facebook Investment

Chris Liddell, who serves as Microsoft’s chief financial officer, has defended the idea of spending $240 million on a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook.  His comments aren’t likely to reverse critics’ stances, however.

Wiki Investment Site Receives $2.5 Million

When it comes to financial matters, I like to play it safe.  Bubble Boy-safe.  So the concept of a wiki for investors makes me a little nervous.  But Wikinvest apparently inspired enough confidence in some onlookers to win $2.5 million in funding.

Kontera Scans More Investment Cash

In-text ad company Kontera received another infusion of venture capital from its backers to build upon an earlier investment in the company's ContentLink product.

iCrossing Receives $62 Million In Funding

Companies routinely receive three, five, or even ten million dollars in various funding rounds; reporting on it kind of dulls you to those huge amounts.  But iCrossing, a “global digital marketing company,” has just received $62 million, and that’s definitely worth a closer look.

Mrs. Brin Gets Google Investment

Google has dropped some cash in Anne Wojcicki's 23andMe biotech firm, to the tune of $3.9 million for a minority holding in the company co-founded by Sergey Brin's new missus.

Search Marketing and Direct Marketers

Monday, I presented to the Direct Marketing Association at their B2B Marketing Conference on the subject of Return on Search Marketing Investment. I love talking to direct marketers, because they understand how to market on the Web, but they don’t know they do. When I show them how to take what they know and apply it to this new online world, watching the light bulbs go on is very gratifying.

MS Needs More than Whizbang to Compete with Google

The Mercury News takes an in-depth look at the lack of ROI Microsoft is getting from its investment into web technologies, especially search.

Asset Allocation and Your Investment Plan

Many of the wealthiest people in the world owe their fortunes to different types of residual income - from stocks and bonds to investment trusts, real estate, commodities and more.