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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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Chrome Gains More Market Share
Most major browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, didn't fare well in February, losing market share.  Net Applications found that Chrome managed...
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Look for Ways to Manage Your Social Media Time Better
Time is a valuable resource, and that's why it is more important than ever to manage your time wisely. "Typically in the SMB space, people have very little...
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eBay-PayPal Tie-Up Draws Complaints In Germany
This has not been a great week for American tech companies trying to do business in Europe.  First, Google got in trouble over allegedly anticompetitive search practices an...
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AP Extends Digital Strategy With Gateway Unit
A news organization that was founded in 1846 is making another attempt to transition to the digital age.  The Associated Press has announced the creation of a unit called A...
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Baidu Receives $50 Million To Build Video Site
The creation of the Chinese equivalent of Hulu is now officially underway.  Providence Equity Partners, which invested $100 million in the original American video site, wil...
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Track How Effective Your Online Marketing Efforts are Offline
Tracking offline conversions has been a challenge for businesses for years. As long as the Internet has been widely used to drive business, tracking online marketing efforts to...
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Cyber Attackers Pose as New York Times
Symantec's MessageLabs tells WebProNews there is a new targeted attack using emails pretending to be from the New York Times. Me...
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Missing Growing Pains Actor Andrew Koenig’s Body Found
Update: Tragically, Koenig's body was found in Stanley Park in Vancouver. His father Walter Koenig...
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