The Atlantic cover story on Google and the media is wonderful: full of bite-sized lessons (What's hurting the newspapers? Loss of classifieds, loss of circulation, loss of ad value) and long-form wisdom (To understand Google's solutions to the media's hard times, you have to understand how Google sees the role of journalism and Internet intertwining).
Mobile location data is the foundation for mobile advertising, that’s no secret, but as the momentum of the industry
continues to rise, it’s leaving a trail of fragmented data in its wake.
That’s why this post on TechCrunch yesterday struck a chord in saying that “it’s time for an open database of places which all companies and developers can both contribute to and borrow from.”
The fight to control local advertising is shaping up as the next great battle in the technology sector. Some see it as Version 2.0 of the war to own online search, a rare opportunity to shorten Google Inc.'s lead in the highly lucrative Internet advertising space. Big companies like Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Apple Inc.
In the race to dethrone Microsoft Office from the top of the productivity software chain, Google on MOnday announced that it has re-architected the platform underlying its Docs web-based applications.
Earnings season is getting into full swing in the technology sector, with Google set to release first-quarter results Thursday. Wall Street will be looking at Google’s announcement for clues about the Internet advertising market in general, before Yahoo and other companies release their numbers.
Twitter will unveil on Tuesday a much-anticipated plan for making money from advertising, finally answering the question of how the company expects to turn its exponential growth into revenue, Claire Cain Miller reports in The New York Times.
At the age of 40, King Gillette was a frustrated inventor, a bitter anticapitalist, and a salesman of cork-lined bottle caps. It was 1895, and despite ideas, energy, and wealthy parents, he had little to show for his work. He blamed the evils of market competition.
It's easy to get caught up in today's trends or even focus on the next six months. Some of 2009's biggest trends included an increased emphasis on real-time search and information distribution, while distribution of marketing content in widgets and other pieces of portable content that worked across devices and social spaces also saw its stake rise.
It’s that season everyone anticipates, especially given the current state of the economy. Time to dust off those discards and try to foist them onto the unsuspecting public in exchange for their hard-earned cash.
Earlier today, Google chief economist Hal Varian gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a cliff for years. Many media companies blame Google and are trying to put the genie back in the bottle with partial metered models for online news.
Industry giants such as AT&T, Google (News - Alert) and Microsoft have joined forces under the banner of The Digital Due Processcoalition. The group, which also includes privacy organizations, think tanks, other technology companies and academics, coalesced to issue principles for updating the key federal law that defines the rules for government access to e-mail and private files stored in the Internet cloud.
Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.
Today, the Mountain View web giant announced that it has officially launched ads on the home, search, and browse pages of its mobile YouTube site (m.youtube.com) in the US and Japan.
Ever been following your favorite team, it’s late in the year and they’re way ahead in the standings? They could cruise the rest of the way and be just fine. Then they have small hiccup, nothing major. But suddenly, they stress out and tense up. They start to think of how embarrassing it would be to blow such a large lead. In fact, they become consumed by the thought of it.
A few years ago, I bought a new watch on eBay, for a much lower price than I deserved.
If you didn’t know about the lawsuit Viacom has against Youtube, don’t feel bad, I didn’t even know about it until today.
Friday, May 14, 2010
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