Google AdSense Disabling Arbitrage Publisher Accounts as of June 1st
Numerous AdSense publishers have been receiving emails from Google the past couple of days stating that their use of their AdSense account is an unsuitable business...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Why Google Fears Microsoft, Big Time
'Sometimes it takes a lot to wake a sleeping giant. But when he finally stirs, you'd better be ready for a fight.'
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

The Psychology of Banner Ads
A quick test: how many of you can name the product being advertised in the banner ad at the top of the page?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Reducing User Interface Friction
Whether you call it cognitive load, a sequence of hurdles, interface overhead, or just plain excise, it all adds up to the same thing: interface friction for the user.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/19/2007 | Website Design & Development

Internet Giants Vie to Snap Up Web Ad Firms
Microsoft's $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive signaled its struggle to build an Internet ad business on its own.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

YouTube Star Headed for TV Reality Show
Stevie Ryan, the Los Angeles actress whose tough-chick character, Little Loca, emerged as one of the first stars of YouTube, is making the leap from the desktop to the small...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Digital Media

Revealed: Digg's Kevin Rose Silent Investor In Dating Site
The buzz around Digg's Kevin Rose is focused on a new, yet-to-be-revealed venture with Leah Culver and Daniel Burka. But earlier this week Rose disclosed his interest...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Under the Hood of The Pirate Bay's New Video Site
YouTube could get some unusual competition soon: The operators of infamous Swedish Torrent site The Pirate Bay have announced that they are going to start their own...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Digital Media

Investors, Analysts Wonder What Will Happen to ValueClick
Now that Microsoft Corp. plans to buy online advertising company aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion, investors and analysts are wondering if competitor ValueClick Inc. is a prime...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

The Other Paid Search: Paid Direct Links
I generally cover what most of us think of as paid search, where the search engines collect the ad revenue. This includes PPC paid placement...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/19/2007 | Link Building

Search Marketers Seed Social Networks
Getting YouTube viewers to start searching. Nearly half of search marketers placed content on social networking Web sites in February 2007, according to the...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Netflix Sued For Violating Antitrust Law With Its Patents
I'm pretty skeptical of most class-action lawsuits. They're often filed over bizarre claims, and the settlements almost always seem to enrich the lawyers a lot more than the...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

New Copyright Alliance Hopes to Strengthen Copyright Law
A new industry-backed Copyright Alliance was launched yesterday in Washington, DC, with the goal of "promoting the value of copyright as an agent for creativity, jobs...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Digital Media

Tech, Media Hiring Boosted by Move to Digital
Programmers and engineers again have the advantage when it comes to global hiring, as the transition to digital makes everyone from cellular providers...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Digital Media

Even Yahoo! Gets The Blues
CEO Semel's next turnaround task: Boost morale and keep employees from leaving. It was a bit of good news that Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel really needed: Following...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

MoveOn Blasts MySpace Over Censorship
MoveOn's executive director Eli Pariser called MySpace a "serial censorer of user-generated content" and presented a litany of complaints about the social...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The (Less) Lonely Life of The Road Warrior
New social networks for business travelers let you fly, dine, and hit the links with peers. Business travel has gone Web 2.0. Frequent fliers can now build their Rolodexes...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/19/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Buying Feedburner For About $100M?
On the surface, this looks like a straightforward story. Google is tightening its grip on text advertising with the acquisition of Feedburner.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Venture Capital & Acquisitions

YouTube Founders Complacent? Just You Watch
The media's recent legal and competitive challenges to Internet video pioneer YouTube haven't fazed co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who have diligently sought...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Digital Media

Facebook Growing, but More Roadkill Coming?
Facebook is growing quickly, adding between 100,000 and 150,000 new users per day, the company tells us, with the highest growth rates coming from abroad.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Content Sites & Blogs

Interview of Frank Schilling, the World Famous Domain Investor
Having coined the term domain investor, Frank Schilling is a recognized leader in the domaining field. He talks about domaining on his blog at frankschilling.typepad.com.
eBusiness News | Posting 5/18/2007 |  Domaineering

Fair Isaac Study Says Internet Click Fraud Persists
Deceptive clicks on Internet advertising links distributed by Google, Yahoo, and other online marketing vehicles are probably occurring far more frequently than the network...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Search Marketing

Microsoft to Buy Aquantive for $6 Billion
In a bid to boost its presence in advertising, Microsoft said Friday that it will pay $6 billion to acquire Aquantive, a digital marketing and services company.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Microsoft Steps Up To Plate With Popfly Apps Builder
Extending application development to non-programmers, Microsoft on Friday plans to introduce a hosted tool called Popfly, for building Web pages and mashups.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Website Design & Development

Of Mad Money & Ad Networks
In 2006, according to Internet Advertising Bureau, the advertising revenues reached an all time high of $16.8 billion. In comparison, $11 billion has been spent...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Google Universal Search - is Vertical Search Space Finished?
Back in September of last year we wrote about the rise of vertical search engines here. In that article we emphasized the superiority of vertical search over generic search...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Content Sites & Blogs

Branding, SEO Implications for Google Universal Search
It may not be the first search engine to unveil an integrated approach to search results, but after unveiling its universal search model yesterday...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Search Engine Optimization

Global Net Censorship 'Growing'
The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative suggests.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Content Sites & Blogs

Search Engine Optimization Warfare
Search engine optimization is misunderstood and despised by those who have had consistently failed at using it, or have been repeatedly beaten by those who were...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Search Engine Optimization

Dangers of a Threesome
I'd like to share my tale of a start-up partnership gone awry in hopes that my experience may be beneficial to other entrepreneurs.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Want Online Buzz For Your New Product?
Want lots of word-of-mouth buzz behind a product launch? Your best bet may be a big ad campaign. That's the somewhat ironic conclusion of...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

A&E Viral Gets 'Freaky'
When the grungy guy in the video gets the second letter of your name right, interest is piqued. When he gets the full name and follows up with your...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  eMail & Viral Marketing

Online Advertising Rep Firm Gorilla Nation Raises $50 Million PE Money
Online ad rep firm Gorilla Nation has sold a $50 million private equity (minority) stake of itself to Great Hill Partners.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/18/2007 |  Venture Capital & Acquisitions

The Net is Being Carved up into Information Plantations
Search at Google.com on evolution or Iraq or Aids or Gordon Brown, and the same site will appear at the top of the list of results: Wikipedia.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 |  Content Sites & Blogs

Scammers Gaming YouTube Ratings for Profit
Spyware researcher says scammers are inflating the popularity of videos on YouTube and other sharing sites, often as a lure to Web sites loaded with malicious programs.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 |  Digital Media

WPP to buy 24/7 Real Media
WPP Group Plc the world's second-largest marketing services company by revenue, is buying Internet ad firm 24/7 Real Media Inc. for $649 million to beef up its presence...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 |  Venture Capital & Acquisitions

How the Top 30 Newspapers are Embracing Social Bookmarking
A look at the top 30 Newspapers in the US (according to Nielsen//Netratings) and the social media/bookmarking sites they've targeted and how they have...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 |  Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Will Labels Sing Along With DRM-Free Music
Critics of digital rights management have long insisted that record labels could boost sagging sales by offering music unencumbered by copy-protection schemes.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 |  Digital Media

Google Not Guilty of Displaying Explicit Images
Early last year, an adult entertainment website called Perfect 10 filed a lawsuit against Google for displaying thumbnails and subsequent images from its website.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Digital Media

The Ranking Roller Coaster Cause And Effect
There are many reasons why your site might lose search engine result rankings. Some of those reasons can be traced to a particular fault while...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

How To: Pitch Your Company for VC or Angel Mone
It's been a long and winding road up to this point and you've still only made it to the starting line. You've come up with a great idea, assembled a team to help you...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Internet Meets Large Screen
The long-predicted convergence of the Internet and the broadcast world is accelerating, but finding the right hardware to make the leap from the PC to the living room still...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Digital Media

Google Sets Spotlight on Videos
Google nudged video closer to center stage on Wednesday, announcing that it would spotlight video content from YouTube, Metacafe, iFilm and other sites on its main...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Digital Media

Why Disney's Going to School
The Mouse House is finding opportunities to advertise to moms in online classes, reports Business 2.0 senior editor Evelyn Nussenbaum.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

The Race to Conquer Video Advertising
Duncan Riley at TechCrunch recently wrote a series of posts on video advertising. Also our own Sean Ammirati wrote a very interesting post yesterday, calling for an open ad...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Raising Taxes on VCs
Venture capitalists are trying to distance themselves from their private equity cousins in order to avoid higher taxes, says Fortune's Adam Lashinsky.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Fox Interactive Keeps on Buying
A few days ago I had breakfast with Peter Levinsohn, President of Fox Interactive Media, days after Rupert Murdoch made a $5 billion bid for Dow Jones.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part5)
Part 5 of the code snippets series sees us take a look at more handy pieces of html, css, javascript and other usefull things to a web designer...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/17/2007 | Website Design & Development

Young Women Dominate UK Net Scene
Young women are now the most dominant group online in the UK, according to new research from net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/17/2007 | Website Analytics

Watching TV, But Not on TV
Would you pay to watch YouTube clips on your TV? Over a quarter of males ages 13 to 34 watch video on devices other than TVs, according to E-Poll's "Multi-Platform Viewing...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Digital Media

Is Online Marketing Making Kids Obese?
A new study highlights ways companies use the Web to promote unhealthy foods to youngsters and asks regulators to step in.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Details Emerge on IRS Plans to Tax eBay Auctions
The IRS has made no secret of the fact that it wants Internet auction companies like eBay to provide more information about high-volume sellers to the government in order to...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/17/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Google 2.0 Has Arrived
In its biggest revamp ever to its home page, Google on Wednesday launched its version of universal search, a redesign that will list in one place search results from a variety of...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store
Amazon has announced plans to launch a digital music store that will allow customers to download music without any digital copying protection.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Digital Media

Schmidt Says He Didn't Grasp The Power of Google at First
When CEO Eric Schmidt joined Google from Novell in 2001, it was an unprofitable but up-and-coming search engine.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Your Ad Goes Here
The Internet search engine is an indispensable tool of modern life and an advertising gold mine for Web portals. But searching accounts for only about 5 percent of the time...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Mission as Strategy - Connecting the Dots at Yahoo!
Last year, the executive team at Yahoo! made the decision to re-organize the company with one of the central themes being the evolution of a culture from one...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Sony Looks to Buy Virtual Worlds for Kids for $500 Million
Hollywood and media giants have a newfound affection for virtual worlds for kids, and are willing to spend big dollars on communities like Club Penguin and Webkienz.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Curl Up With a Good Blog
Publishers increasingly turn to the web to find new talent - but they should be doing it more. Once upon a time, a writer would have to try to attract the interest of an agent...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Online Banking Simply A Click Away
If you're still picking your bank by whether there's a handy branch nearby, you haven't joined the 21st century.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Web Sites' Lists Of 'Most Viewed' Too Easy to Game?
Popularity contests increasingly decide what people see on the Web. Features like most-viewed, most-popular and most-emailed lists democratize...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

IAC to Spend $100 mln on Ask brand in 2007
Ask.com, the Internet media unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp is set to spend $100 million this year on marketing to woo users unfamiliar with its revitalized...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Collactive Wants to Boost Your Rankings on Digg, YouTube, Reddit
It seems that a company once dedicated to killing spammers is now committed to getting your stories at the top of Digg, YouTube, Reddit, Yahoo News, Netscape, BBC News...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

eBay To Increase Affiliate Payouts On June 1
eBay is increasing affiliate payouts substantially on June 1, 2007. For smaller affiliates, the gains will be over 2x on new customer signups and a 25% increase in revenue share.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Are Social Bookmarking Sites Better at Search than Google?
I have long thought that social bookmarking and ranking sites like del.icio.us, digg, and StumbleUpon could be used to enhance current web search results.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Search Marketing

Show-Me-The-Money Conversion Ratios
When I begin an ecommerce optimization engagement, there are four key ratios that I immediately look for.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Your Guide to Micro-Blogging and Twitter
This is a special week at MediaShift as we are all a-twitter about micro-blogging and Twitter. We'll be running a special Q&A with the Twitter founders on Wednesday...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Surviving The "Google Shuffle"
What do you do when your Web site falls in Google's page rankings for reasons due to a shift in their algorithm known as the "Google Shuffle"?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Is 30 Too Old to Start a Company
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures noted, to the dismay of some of his older readers, that almost all the entrepreneurs he'd backed were in their thirties.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/16/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Rediscovering The Button Element
Creating a consistent interface for your users is a constant struggle for every interface designer. Building consistency on the web is especially tough because the...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/16/2007 | Website Design & Development

Porn.com Sells for 9 Million
MXN Limited acquires Porn.com for $9 Million. Terms of the transaction were not fully disclosed, but this is the second largest adult domain transactions behind sex.com.
eBusiness News | Posting 5/15/2007 | Domaineering

To Create Buzz, TV Networks Try A Little 'Blogola'
TV critics have called "The New Adventures of Old Christine" one of the decade's funniest comedies. But when CBS recently wanted...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Truemors, the Twitter For Rumors Launches & Is Smothered by Spam
Guy Kawasaki's new company Truemors, has launched, and it is a sort of Twitter for rumors. It is noteworthy, because its a raw experiment at letting anyone...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Gonzales Proposes New Crime: 'Attempted' Copyright Infringement
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual-property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

AOL Buys Mobile Ad Company Third Screen Media
AOL LLC has acquired Third Screen Media Inc. to strengthen its position in mobile advertising, a small component of online advertising expected to shoot up in coming...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

MySpace Expands Video Offerings
Social networking site MySpace is launching video channels that will feature news and lifestyle video from partners including The New York Times and National Geographic...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Digital Media

Craigslist's Ongoing Success Story
CEO Jim Buckmaster has an unusual business approach for the successful classified ads site: Keep it simple and don't try to maximize revenue.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

MySpace + Wall Street Journal = A Place for Friends
So, apparently, according to statements by CEO Eric Schmidt reported last week, Google is out as a potential bidder for Dow Jones, in the wake of News Corp...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Twitter Cloning: Tiny Blogs Bloom Everywhere
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the web is positively enamored with Twitter. Over the past few months, a flood of clones has appeared, imitating...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

LOOK OUT Kevin Rose! 19 IM Startups You Need to Beat
Kevin Rose is said to be working on an IM or communications tool for his next startup. The details are sketchy, but Rose has mentioned in the past ...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Digital Media

MySpace To Acquire Flektor
MySpace will acquire Flektor, a just-launched service that allows users to create widgets from photos, video and text...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Free Tool Offers 'Easy' Coding
A free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks has been developed.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Website Design & Development

Top 20 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites May 2007
Here are the top 20 largest social bookmarking sites ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data. For each site, we show unique U.S. monthly visitor data...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

There's More To Social Media Link Building Than Digg
When it comes to leveraging social media marketing for your link building campaigns, it seems that most of us focus on Digg and Digg alone.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/15/2007 | Link Building

How to Scale Mt. Google
Getting your site on the first page can turn a hobby into a thriving business. A little over a year ago, Giovanna Villanueva was toiling away in virtual obscurity.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Will Amazon Click with Photography Reviews?
Digital photographers on Monday were debating whether a retailer can also offer professional camera reviews without creating the perception that the opinions are biased.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Internet Captures Half of Spare Time
Broadband users spend almost half their spare time in a typical weekday online, according to Media-Screen's "Netpop|Play" report.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/15/2007 | Website Analytics

16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

A (Former) YouTube Star's Rant: We'll Go It Alone, Thanks
Last week YouTube announced a new partners program (TC coverage here, Om's first coverage here). The program elicited a fair amount of negative response...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Digital Media

ChaCha and blinkx Announce Partnership
Today, popular search engines ChaCha and blinkx announced an exciting new partnership, to add a video search feature to ChaCha's search results.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

European Startups Coming to a Web Browser Near You
As mentioned in our post covering 5min, the semi-finals of the European focused Startup 2.0 contest were held in Madrid on the weekend.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/15/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Measure and Manage the Online Buzz
At a recent ClickZ Web metrics event in New York, a session on buzz, blogs, and social media reminded me of an apt adage: if you don't measure it, you can't manage it.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/15/2007 | Website Analytics

iTunes-Like Video Services Have No Future
Online video sites that sell shows and movies such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes will likely peak this year as more programming is made available on free outlets...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Digital Media

US Online Sales Rise 29% to $146.5bn
Americans bought more clothing and shoes online last year than computers and software in a sign of the growing mainstream acceptance of internet retailing.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/14/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Online Retail is Years Away from Saturation: Survey
E-commerce is moving "full steam ahead" and is years away from saturation, with double-digit growth expected for several years, according to an online retail industry...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/14/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Web 2.0 'Distracts Good Design'
Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Website Design & Development

When Google Goes Temporarily Insane
The recent Google update, known to some of us as the 'Google shuffle', had a number of people freaked out. Seeing your site's ranking suddenly change is a reality we all face.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Can CBS Put the Net Into Network?
A year ago, CBS Corp. announced the creation of Innertube, an entertainment channel on CBS.com designed to make the company a player in online video.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Digital Media

Casey Serin: The World's Most Hated Blogger?
Casey Serin is on his way to becoming the most hated blogger on the Internet. With scant income, assets, or business savvy, the would-be real-estate mogul managed to...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Attention Wal-Mart customers, Skype Now in Aisle Voice
Wal-Mart is going to start selling nine Skype-certified hardware devices (and by extension the Skype service) in all 1800 (or roughly half) of its stores.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Digital Media

Cutts (Finally) Answers Paid Link Questions
Awash in good intentions, Google's Matt Cutts paved a hellish road for himself by asking people to fill out a spam report for paid links.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Amazon.com Acquires Dpreview.com
We're proud and excited to announce that Dpreview has been acquired by the worlds leading online retailer, Amazon.com.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Instant Messaging: Feature or Product?
Web-based instant messaging services, such as Meebo and eBuddy have had high growth rates over many months.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Digital Media

Microsoft Takes on The Free World
Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Digital Media

Music Radio on the Internet Faces Thorny Royalty Issues
Since Pandora.com closed its box of digital musical delights to users outside the United States, the complaints have been pouring in.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Digital Media

comScore Releases April Top 50 Web Rankings
comScore Media Metrix today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at top online properties and categories for April 2007. The month saw Internet users...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/14/2007 | Website Analytics

Video Ad Firm Adap.tv Launches to Serve Direct Response Advertisers
Unlike most Web advertising, video is usually considered a venue for brand advertisers, but just-launched video ad platform Adap.tv aims to give direct-response advertisers...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

The Crowded, Crowded World of Social Networks
Since eMarketer published its first report on social network marketing, companies have latched with almost religious fervor onto the notion that consumers want to be socially...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

How Domains Made Sahar Sarid's Dreams Come True
Eight years ago Sahar Sarid was working on an ice cream truck and sharing a mobile home with his sister in Houston, Texas.
eBusiness Information | Posting 5/14/2007 | Domaineering

Digg is Censoring Content by Burying Stories Internally
We all know that the main reason why stories don't hit the Digg homepage is because they get buried. Some say the buries are caused by specific Digg users who have it out...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Fretting Over Online Product Placement
As more advertisers stick their necks out online while paying off popular posters, some site surfers are screaming 'Sellout!'
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Mashup Litmus Test for Web 2.0 Start-Ups
Social music darling Last.fm announced this week that they are going to start a video service any minute now.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Digital Media

CBS Acquires WallStrip for $5 million
Jossip is reporting that corporate focused video blog WallStrip has been acquired by CBS News for $5 million. The report states that an announcement is expected early this...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/14/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

A Boot Camp for the Next Tech Billionaires
Calling all geeks! Do you have a hot idea for a start-up? If so, this boot camp where Silicon Valley meets 'American Idol' is for you. That is, if you make the cut.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/13/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Tilting at a Digital Future
IN Rupert Murdoch's world, two things are certain: the sun never sets on the kingdom, and a TV is always on in the background.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/13/2007 | Digital Media

We Need Better Statistics
Almost every entrepreneur I talk to lately whines privately about the stats they see on places like Compete.com, Comscore, and Alexa.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/13/2007 | Website Analytics

The No. 1 SEO Tip
Learn how this single SEO secret can get you on the first page of Google. Let me start by asking you a question: What's the number-one business killer on the internet?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/13/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Tools To Boost Conversion
Most ebusiness owners can find ways to increase traffic to their site, but turning a visitor into a buyer remains an ongoing challenge.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/13/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Venture Capital Notebook: Not All Sites Will Cash in on Ads
A variety of business ideas were pitched at Wednesday's WSA Investment Forum. But one overriding theme emerged: online advertising.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/13/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog
Jonathan Coulton sat in Gorilla Coffee in Brooklyn, his Apple PowerBook open before him, and began slogging through the day's e-mail. Coulton is 36 and shaggily handsome.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/13/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs