Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion
Google agreed to its largest acquisition Friday, reaching a deal to purchase DoubleClick for almost double what it paid for YouTube last year.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Selling stuff online? Here comes the IRS
Americans who sell items through Internet auction sites could be in for an unpleasant surprise at tax time next year, thanks to an IRS proposal designed to identify...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/14/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Independent Films Going Online
Somewhere over the rainbow is a place where indie filmmakers use the Internet to sell their movies all over the world.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/14/2007 | Digital Media

Link Building: Hyperlink Cliques and Clusters
Cliqueishness is part of normal human behavior - an extension of clannishness. Though when it comes to websites...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/14/2007 | Link Building

Search Engine Strategies '07 New York Session Coverage Roundup
Here are the fifty-plus sessions we covered at SES NY 2007. - 1. In House: Big SEO - 2. Video Search Optimization - 3. Compare & Contrast: Ad Program Strategies...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/14/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

The CGM Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth, Right?
My firm, Nielsen BuzzMetrics, recently launched a new tool called the Brand Association Map (BAM). The tool essentially takes vast quantities of CGM (up to millions...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Bloggers' search for anonymity
The internet has given the individual unprecedented power to reach out to millions but some governments are cautious, even hostile, to giving their citizens free access to...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Flips PennySaver With Ad Deal
The weekly shopping guide publisher PennySaverUSA.com, part of Harte Hanks Inc., inked a deal with Google that could turn the publisher's thousands of sales reps...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

The Web Host Industry Week in Review - 4/13/2007
In a bit of a departure from the ordinary, much of this week's interesting Web hosting news was, in a manner of speaking, about Web hosting news, with some revelations from...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/14/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Is About Controlling Data
It's not too late to get on the "web 2.0" bandwagon, says publishing magnate Tim O'Reilly, who coined the term. And if you're wondering what it takes to build a web 2.0 startup...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Goes Crazy Over Acquisitions
If a company wants to place itself in position for a big check from Google, being a little bit crazy helps. So does bringing in the kind of traffic that can make crazy money for Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/13/2007 | Venture Capital

VisiblePath Is A Lot Like LinkedIn, Except It's Useful
One of the better features of LinkedIn is the relationship map that shows your friends, and their friends, and their friends, and so on.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Web 2.0's Future All Depends On IT's Future
Reports from Forrester and The Leading Edge Forum serve as bookends portending either to a bubble bursting, or the next golden era. Who's right?
eBusiness News | Posted 4/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Luxury Brands Need VIP Treatment Online
There is nothing luxurious or glamorous about a banner ad -- no matter how rich or interactive it is.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/13/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Women outnumber men online in United States: study
A study released on Thursday indicates that more women than men go online in the United States, defying the perception of the Internet as a male-dominated realm.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/13/2007 | Website Analytics

Top Social Networks: Who's losing to MySpace
Somewhere between Instant Messenger Profiles and Vertical 'People' search engines, social networking has become a keystone of the web.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/13/2007 | Website Analytics

'You Who?' - Trust in Web 2.0
At the end of 2006, Time magazine decided that its person of the year was 'You'. Yes, You. All the You's that create and rate content on heavy hitting sites such as...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Trying to break the Google habit
Google's dominance of the search market, which in the UK stands at 75%, is increasingly being challenged by rivals desperate to become popular with a generation of web...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/13/2007 | Search Marketing

Auditing Paid Listings & Click Fraud Issues
They did a case study and noticed they suddenly got lots of traffic from one particular ad. It looked suspicious, but was it click fraud?
eBusiness News | Posted 4/13/2007 | Search Marketing

Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid
We web designers get excited about the littlest things. Our friends in the print world must get a kick out of watching us talk about finally being able to achieve layouts...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/13/2007 | Website Design & Development

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part3)
Part 3 of our code snippets series takes a look at more handy pieces of html, ajax and css that you can incorporate into your web designs.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/13/2007 | Website Design & Development

Why Google isn't the next Microsoft
Everyone seems to be piling on Google these days for being too big, too powerful. But Business 2.0's Chris Taylor makes the case for why the dominant Internet search...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

What I Learned From Friendster: Jonathan Abrams' New Startup
Jonathan Abrams' last startup, Friendster, was one of the first social-networking companies to attract an audience of users numbering in the millions.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

CBS will distribute TV shows online via AOL, MSN
CBS made a broad push further into online distribution Thursday with a series of deals with Internet companies to carry CBS shows such as "CSI" and "The Late Show With...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Digital Media

Yahoo Close to Buying Rivals.com - Up to $100M
You're reading it here first: Yahoo is close to making its biggest sports acquisition after, well, the Broadcast.com deal...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Venture Capital

Akamai goes P2P, buys Red Swoosh
Akamai has just announced that it is buying Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer based service for about $15 million in stock.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Venture Capital

Senators propose labels for adult Web sites
Operators of Web sites with racy content must label their sites and register in a national directory or be fined, according to a new U.S. Senate proposal that represents the...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google corners nearly two-thirds of US search market
The latest search market share numbers are in from Hitwise: in the four weeks ended March 31st, Google (GOOG) racked up fully 64.13% of all US searches.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Search Marketing

Google Faces Brain Drain As Anniversaries Hit
Less than three years after going public, Google is confronting one of the more confounding consequences of its phenomenal success: a potential brain drain if...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Technorati Buys Personal Bee
Blog search engine Technorati has acquired news-aggregation technology in order to help brands create their own information and conversation portals.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Venture Capital

$200+ Million For Fandango
We're triangulating information from a couple of sources who have information about the size of the Comcast/Fandango deal.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Venture Capital

911 for 411
Google's new free directory assistance is sure to be popular with consumers, but it means trouble on the line for the big phone companies...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Video killed the banner ad
With broadband Internet connections now the norm, marketers are racing to put full-motion video ads online...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/12/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Yahoo! Panama: So Far, So Good
Yahoo!'s new paid-search advertising platform is performing well for advertisers. That's according to executives with three companies that...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Search Marketing

M&A Rolls in Q1
Mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector are continuing on a torrid pace, a new study says.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/12/2007 | Venture Capital

Hitting The Long Tail Keywords
As many of you know, I've been go after search term make money online and make money on the internet. So far, I've been very successful at it...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/12/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Software Review - SEO Elite
Welcome to the first part of our 'Tool Review' series. Today, we will be reviewing one of the most important tools in our arsenal, called SEO Elite by Bryxen Software.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/12/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Comcast to acquire movie tickets site Fandango
Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S., said Wednesday it will buy movie tickets site Fandango as part of a new online entertainment business it plans to launch.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Venture Capital

Where Are The Web 2.0 IPOs?
Once a relic of the last stock boom, initial public offerings are back--and tech IPOs are really back.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Venture Capital

Google - The Ultimate Money Making Machine
We learned the fundamental law of Supply and Demand in Economics 101. The textbooks explain that shifts in demand cause corresponding...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Economics 101: Web Giants Rule 'Democratized' Medium
When it comes to online-advertising riches, the short tail is getting shorter. A recent number crunch from consultancy group Marketspace indicates the 10...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

SES: Search Supports Sitemaps Autodiscovery
Major search engines Ask, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo jointly announced at SES New York their support of a new feature that makes sitemaps more valuable to webmasters.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/11/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Will Portals Get Poached?
MySpace could lure the majority of heavy users from Google and other big portals, according to JupiterResearch's "21st Century Portals: Thriving in the Google-MySpace...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace
Sometime around 10:30 pm PST tonight, MySpace began blocking videos embedded on MySpace pages that originate from Photobucket.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

11th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners
Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and have been chosen by members of the...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

His Companies Have Sold for Over $1.3 Billion: Can Demand Media's...
Despite having been founded less than a year ago (in May 2006), Demand Media has already become one of true giants in the domain industry.
eBusiness Information | Posting 4/11/2007 | Domaineering

Search Marketers Content with ROI, Plan to Spend More
A majority of search marketers are planning on spending more on search this year, and are mostly satisfied with the return on investment (ROI) they are seeing from search.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Search Marketing

Facebook gets facelift, adds more social networking tools
Facebook.com is getting a facelift designed to make the popular Web site's social networking features easier to find and use.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Employers take widgets to work
Webified mini-apps have taken the blog world by storm. Now new versions are getting ready to launch on corporate desktops, Business 2.0 Magazine reports...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Digital Media

HowStuffWorks raises $75 million, launches video service
HowStuffWorks Inc., has raised $75 million in private equity from Capital Research & Management and Chilton Investment Co., it plans to announce Wednesday, a company...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Venture Capital

HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web
As workers on the web today, we are dealing with many technologies that have been stable for a long time.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/11/2007 | Website Design & Development

A Photo Trove, a Mounting Challenge
The new chief executive for Corbis is expected to respond to the rise of low-cost online rivals that threaten to undermine its sales.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Digital Media

Stop wasting time; dump 90% of the feeds you read
Continuing from our earlier discussion on testing your own blog's success, let's look at the different reasons you should be unsubscribing from the feeds in your feed reader.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/11/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Hacker. Dropout. CEO.
When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Viacom strikes Web search deal with Yahoo
Media conglomerate Viacom said Tuesday that it chose Yahoo to provide search advertising for 33 of its Internet sites in a high-profile boost to Yahoo's new Web...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Video Prophet
How Akamai survived the dot-com bust to thrive on speed. Paul Sagan has ridden hard over the wildest extremes of the Internet economy. In 1999 he stumbled into a...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | Digital Media

Car Sales Start With Clicks
More auto shoppers are going to branded carmaker Web sites than ever, but they are going to fewer sites in total, according to Capgemini.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs
High-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Ten Ways To Convince Shoppers To Buy Online
On average, online retailers still only convert two to three percent of visitors into buyers. Though people are buying more online than ever before, that number has remained...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Digg Traffic v/s Google Traffic - A Chitika Analysis Report
One of the observations raised at Elite Retreat San Francisco was: Digg Users are lousy ad clickers. So I decided to put this theory to the test...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/10/2007 | Link Building

97 Blog Directories
One of the resources we often use when promoting blogs and RSS feeds is directory submissions. There are many kinds of directories to submit blogs to.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/10/2007 | Link Building

Game's on for big media firms
Analysts think the next big growth opportunity for media conglomerates could be video games. And it might make more sense to buy instead of build.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | Digital Media

Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser
Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | Venture Capital

Last.FM Quietly Unveils Subscription... Guess What Else
Yesterday, I met with Martin Stiksel, one of the three founders of Last.FM, the popular interactive radio service, for a briefing on what the site is up to.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | Digital Media

The top 5 new features in Flash CS3
After digging into Flash CS3 a bit and talking with Richard Galvan, the new technical product manager for Flash, I've come up with 5 new features that will help both...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/10/2007 | Website Design & Development

A Week in the Life of a Paid Search Marketer
It's one of my favorite times of the year. The trees are budding, the birds are singing and search engine marketers all over the country are preparing their livers for a quarterly...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/10/2007 | Search Marketing

As Google Challenges Viacom and Microsoft, Its CEO Feels Lucky
Back in 2000, when a friend suggested he apply to be Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt thought, 'Why? It's only a search engine.' And Everest is only a mountain.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct
When I wrote my Call for a Blogging Code of Conduct last week, I suggested some ideas of what such a code might contain, but didn't actually put forth a draft that people...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Does EBay Need A New Boss?
Is eBay chief executive Meg Whitman ready for a new job? The billionaire has been running the online market giant for nine years, which means she's approaching...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Media Moguls Make Their Move Online
Former media titans such as Eisner and Bochco are finding lots to like as they produce new shows aimed at social networking's explosive growth...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | Digital Media

Internet Video Hyperaggregation
About a week ago, the hot topic online was NBC Universal and News Corp launching a joint-venture to provide "the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled."
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | Digital Media

Few Convert at Retail E-Commerce Sites
Online merchants convert an average of 2%-3% of their site visitors into buyers, according to the e-tailing group's "Sixth Annual Merchant Survey."
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Online Booksellers Face Higher Costs for Shipping Abroad
THE Postal Service is taking the 'ship' out of shipping, and thousands of small online booksellers are bracing for trouble.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Tom's Hardware Sold for $15-$20 Million
Tom's Hardware Guide and its parent company TG Publishing have been sold to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed price.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Why eBay and Alibaba's Taobao may link up
Rival e-commerce services Taobao and eBay plan to team up to combat the perception -- largely a valid one -- that they have become hives of improper trading in "virtual...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/09/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Zell Wants End to Web's Free Ride
It's time for newspapers to stop giving away their stories to popular search engines such as Google, according to Samuel Zell, the real estate magnate whose bid for Tribune...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The DoubleClick Effect
DoubleClick, the New York-based Internet advertising network, is no YouTube: It is an unsexy, revenue-producing business run by grown-ups who keep a low profile...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/08/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Microsoft Will Sell DRM-free Songs
Following digital music pioneer Apple Inc.'s lead yet again, Microsoft Corp. said this week it will soon sell digital music online without digital rights management (DRM) protection.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/08/2007 | Digital Media

Cable Opts Out of EBay TV Ad Tests
Less than a week after Google launched its auction-based TV ad sales system through Echostar, an eBay initiative backed by several large TV advertisers has suffered a blow...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/08/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Let the Games Begin Advertising!
The practice of using video games as an advertising vehicle is as old as the games industry itself. Early Sega racing games for the Atari 2600 console featured Marlboro...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/08/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Ten Best Free Web Statistics and Analytics Packages
If your a blogger or own a website then I am sure you love to see your Web statistics. Why go for Website Statistics in the first place.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/08/2007 | Website Analytics

SEOs: the New Pornographers of the Web
There's something about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) that I find highly distasteful. I've never quite been able to put my finger on it, until I read Rich Skrenta's...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/08/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Web Design is 95% Typography (1)
95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/08/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Daily Reel pulls in seed funding as web video stars emerge.
The Daily Reel, which filters and reviews user-generated video in search of the next rising star, has landed seed financing on the way to a first round.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/08/2007 | Venture Capital