Apparently the answer is…yes! According to a study by SearchIgnite and investment bank RBC Capital Markets:While marketer spend increased quarter over quarter by 1.8 percent, marketers in the third quarter were apt to put their increased budget in Yahoo. Spending on Yahoo increased by 7.8 percent from Q2 to Q3 while Google only [...]
As a big believer in real-time interactions, I was excited to read about TokBox, a new startup that just received $4 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and has the blessing of the very same people who were involved with YouTube (GOOG), including YouTube’s third co-founder, Jawed Karim. (Though that doesn’t ensure success!)By leveraging [...]
Kara Swisher got her hands on a memo sent out to AOL (TWX) employees earlier today from CEO Randy Falco. Here is a summary of what it says:The focus is advertising and the new venture, Platform-A.New web-based properties, including super-hot TMZ.com, are the focus; he calls it the “publishing business.”Not giving up on Access business [...]
FOX News says:Google, the Silicon Valley giant which has made (Al) Gore a multi, multi-millionaire, has denied Sen. Susan Collins the chance to run an ad on Google condemning MoveOn.org, which is spending fortunes targeting her by funding ads against her or ads for her opponent. Ms. Collins is a Republican. Google says her ad [...]
Update: Hey Michael when you say, “Om Malik says Facebook traffic is tanking” it is not quite true. As I said in my original Facebook-traffic post from late last night, I don’t quite buy it. My exact words, “It just doesn’t make any sense! Unless of course, the unthinkable is happening. I hope to [...]
In these irrational times, let me attempt to offer a rational explanation for why CBS bought DotSpotter. Unlike Matthew Ingram, I have actually heard of DotSpotter, and wrote about them a while ago, so I know a couple of things about this company. First, they have an awesome team of developers, the kind CBS [...]
Online storage start-ups are a dime a dozen. And yet, entrepreneurs don’t give up on this highly commoditized sector. Dominik Grolimund is one of them. He has started Wua.la, a Zurich-based company that is using principles of peer-to-peer networking and applying them to storage.The five-person company has been funded so far by Grolimund’s other start-up, [...]
comScore is about to issue September 2007 user engagement and page views data, and it seems like the SVFurby, I mean Facebook unique visitors took a little dip. See the little decline on the red line. I can’t exactly tell how many and how accurate the data is, but it looks like a dip. I [...]
It shouldn’t come as a surprise: some of the early Googlers who have cashed in their millions and are looking for new challenges are hitting the escape button. We wrote about this pending exodus a while back. Some of them are leaving to start their own companies, a trend that seems to be gaining [...]
eBay (EBAY) is finally jumping with both feet into social networking with its eBay Neighborhoods. It’s clearly arriving at the party at a late hour, but what it’s brought to that party has enough panache that it deserves a good look.eBay will formally lift the veil on its eBay Neighborhoods a little later today, [...]
