It’s a great time to be a cloud consumer. Now you can access all of your digital information – when and wherever you want – across a variety of cloud compatible gadgets (iPad, Kindle, etc.). You can store your music collection in iCloud, you can share work and personal documents over Box.net, and you can do your expenses on Expensify – more…
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Google’s U.S. search engine market share climbed back up above 65 percent in September, while Yahoo’s share declined after two months of growth, according to comScore. While comScore shows Google market share just above 65 percent, Hitwise shows them hovering above 66 percent with Bing, Yahoo, and Bing-powered search all down. more…
(Reuters) – China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has talked with Temasek Holdings Pte about providing financing to buy the 40 percent stake in itself held by Yahoo Inc, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter. more…
Rewind to the year 2000. There was an explosion in internet innovation. The stock market was starting to get shaky. Lycos, Yahoo!, Infoseek and Excite had sewn up internet search.
Publishers were benefiting from search engines driving traffic to their sites. Instead of AOL’s, Prodigy’s and CompuServe’s closed web, search engines were a massive boon to more…
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the largest software maker, is adding features to its Internet display- advertising products to keep from losing customers to Google Inc. (GOOG) and Facebook Inc. in the $12.3 billion U.S. market.
Microsoft is unveiling tools and partnerships with more…
Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million. The arena for news readers on tablets and smartphones is competitive, with high-profile efforts such as Flipboard, Livestand from Yahoo, AOL’s Editions and start-ups such as Pulse and Zite. more…
Seldom does a week pass where one doesn’t read an article outlining the biggest trends in mobile video advertising. To which my natural response is, “Should there be any trends at all in mobile video advertising?”
After all, video ads consume buckets upon buckets more…
We’ve read about how the pipes in mobile advertising are broken, thanks to device fragmentation, interoperability issues, ad serving and tracking challenges, lack of scale and, yes, too many startups. As one of the many mobile advertising startups called out Ad Age’s story on the topic, we’ll admit that there are still challenges ahead. more…
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A new study by Stanford University researchers has found many online advertising companies continue to follow people’s Web activity even after users believe they have opted out of tracking.
The preliminary research has sparked renewed calls more…
Yahoo has announced a new image search that matches recent enhancement to Google and Bing. Yahoo’s new image presentation also allows for easy searching of galleries, a connection to your friends’ Facebook images, and easy navigation of full-sized images. more…
Bing did not gain any market share between June and July, according to the latest numbers but Yahoo was up a notch, which amounts for a gain for Microsoft – and a slight loss for Google.
These month to month fluctuations don’t mean much, but the trend is clear: more…
On Sunday the New York Times ran a lengthy article about Microsoft, the search underdog. Directed at a very mainstream audience there was nothing new in the piece for readers of Search Engine Land. However it did raise some interesting questions, directly and by implication. For example: more…