`
Dish Outbidding Everyone Else For Hulu
After video-streaming site Hulu put itself up for sale last month, six companies including Google, Yahoo! and Amazon reportedly have submitted their initial bids. Yahoo!, whose interest first led Hulu to consider a sale, remains an eager bidder, but the Sunnyvale-headquartered corporation could be outbid by Google or Amazon. Rather surprisingly, however, none of them emerged as the highest bidder....
`
Facebook’s Relationship with Its Fans: It’s Complicated
Facebook has made big changes. Again. And the News Feeds yesterday were, unsurprisingly, bursting with complaints as many of the social-networking site’s 750 million users began noticing the adjustments. “This is absolutely the worst of the many wrong-headed ‘improvements’ you have made, and that’s quite a feat. I think Facebook’s usefulness to me has now been outstripped...
`
The Biggest Acquisitions Made by Google Over the Recent Years
Last week, Google acquired Zagat as part of the company’s strategy to improve its location services and reviews, which have always been the tough nut to crack for the search engine giant. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but it’s safe to say that Zagat is one of the largest acquisition made by Google. And...
`
Zagat, the Latest Acquisition Made by Google
Google announced yesterday that it had acquired Zagat, one of the most well-known restaurant reviewers. Zagat is best known for its small guidebooks that offer reviews and recommendations on restaurants around the world. Writing on the company’s official blog, Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of Local, Maps and Location Services, wrote, “I’m thrilled that Google has acquired...
`
Google Shutting Down Google Labs
In a blog post titled “More Wood Behind Fewer Arrows,” Google announced that it will discontinue its Google Labs department as part of an effort to focus more on its products. Bill Coughran, Google’s senior vice president for Research and Systems Infrastructure, said the company has learned a lot by launching very early prototypes in the Labs. But...
`
20 Most Expensive Keywords in Google AdWords
Despite its reputation as a search juggernaut, it’s no secret that Google is an advertising company at heart. In fact, 97 percent of Google’s revenue, which totaled $33.3 billion in the past twelve months, comes from advertising. And most of that sum comes from AdWords, Google’s auction-based marketplace where advertisers bid on keywords to compete for top...
`
Is Ad.ly A Soon-to-Be-Acquired Company?
Interest in Ad.ly, an advertising platform that lets users post sponsored updates on their Twitter account, recently increases. Although for the most part the company has been quietly operating from their Beverly Hills headquarters, it occasionally pops up in the news, like when they were banned from Facebook for monetizing Facebook page feeds – something that...
`
Coming Soon: Google+ App For iOS Devices
As Google's own Erica Joy revealed, the Google+ iPhone app has, in fact, been submitted to Apple for review some time ago. It is now stuck in review and awaiting approval.
`
Eric Schmidt: The New Platform War is On
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt points out that the new platform war – which cover web services and, to a lesser extent, mobile devices – is well and truly underway. He believes that this war is being fought by "a gang of four".
`
Google Advisor Makes Financial Comparisons Easy
Google Advisor is a personal finance comparison tool that helps you check the rates for mortgages, credit cards, checking accounts and savings accounts by providing a list of financial instruments that meet your search criteria.
`
The Integration of AIM and Gmail: A Separate Login Will No Longer Be Necessary
Google and AOL are going to bring an improvement to this feature by allowing Gmail users to communicate with people on AIM without separately logging into an AIM account, and vice versa.
`
Yahoo! Launches Search Direct, A Google-Instant-Like Feature
The feature is called Search Direct and is similar to Google's Instant Search feature, but Yahoo! distinguished it as a query tool for answers instead of links.