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Yahoo Gets Stock Boost From “Outperform” Rating
Although this turned out to be a pretty "meh" day for the stock market as a whole - the Dow and S&P 500 slipped a little bit, while the Nasdaq didn't gain much - Y...
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Online Ad Spending To Outpace Print In 2010
Spending on online advertising and marketing will surpass print in 2010 for the first time, according to a new report from Outsell. Companies will spend $119.6 b...
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eBay Says Buying Used Is Being Green
eBay announced today the launch of the eBay Green Team Challenge, a program aimed at turning green shopping into a tangible environmental impact. Under the progra...
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Citysearch Has New Way for Local Businesses to Advertise
Citysearch recently announced a set of APIs to make all of Citysearch’s local listings content and advertising available to other W...
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Microsoft To Spend $2 Billion On Bing Ads In The UK
As fans of "The Office" may know, it's fairly common for the entertainment industry to take a successful concept and adapt it for use overseas.  And now, Microsof...
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Chrome Wins Tom’s Hardware Browser Test
Not too many years ago, threads on online forums would often have titles like "New Ferrari Pics (56K users, make coffee)" as a way of warning people with slow connecti...
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Estimate Puts YouTube’s Gross Revenue At $945m
An important, if not surprising, item: Another Google/YouTube exec has voiced his opinion that YouTube will be profitable this year.  More interestingly, an outside analyst...
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YouTube Changes Default Size on Embeds
YouTube has changed the default size for embedded videos. By default they're getting bigger at either 480x385 for a 4:3 video, or 640x385 for a 16:9 video. YouTube says it went...
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Plenty of Reasons Email is as Relevant as Ever
Every now and then, there is a discussion about where email stands as social network use becomes the "it" thing. We've all heard mutterings like, "email is dead&q...
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YouTube Expands Auto-Captioning Program
Whether they're used for the benefit of the hard of hearing, people who speak a different language, or just folks who want to watch videos while at work or in a library, caption...
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Hulu To Lose Comedy Central’s Stewart, Colbert
Two of the most popular shows on Hulu will be pulled off the site after March 9th.  Hulu announced late yesterday that it and Comedy Central have been unable to reach an ag...
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AlikeList Points Customers to Local Businesses Their Friends Like
As we've written about a lot lately, local search is continuing to evolve, and that evolution is not just coming from the biggest names in search. We recently had a discussion w...
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Live: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Addresses Search Marketing Community
Update: I'm going to go ahead an liveblog the keynote here as well. To watch it live (or archived), go to...
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FDA Asked To Investigate Online Marketing By Drug Companies
The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) has asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate the online marketing and behavioral targeting practices of pharmaceutical...
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Google’s CFO: “It’s Been A Great Time For Us”
Patrick Pichette joined Google as its CFO on August 12, 2008, and since then, he's seen the company through both good times (a stock price of $620 per share) and bad (try $262)....
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