Is eBay Rational?
You might think that if there's one thing an economist should be able to tell you how to do, it's successfully list an item on the auction Web site eBay.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/26/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

The Startups That Made Facebook's First Cut
Facebook yesterday announced that it is working with a number of public and private companies that will be allowed to run widgets or other services on Facebook.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/26/2007 | Digital Media

The High Price of Creating Free Ads
Companies that have invited consumers to create advertising often find it to be more stressful, costly and time-consuming.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/26/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Amazing Technique to Get FREE .edu Backlinks That is 100% Ethical
One of the most interesting link development techniques unveiled itself to me today. Many link developers and SEOs might be a lil upset at me that such a great technique...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/26/2007 | Link Building

Salesforce.com/Siebel 2.0: Criticism and a Refutation
Some say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but that's only for those who forget that a good rebuttal - or attempted rebuttal - is quite flattering as well.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/26/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

DoFollow | No Nofollow - Highs & Lows
Having spent so much time over the last 6 months evangelising the adoption of dofollow plugins and solutions to remove nofollow from comments, the last week has been...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/26/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

User-Generated Video Goes to the Big Screen
Yet another user-generated video site has popped up in YouTube's wake, and TheLot.com has big ambitions. Steven Spielberg's latest venture, 'On the Lot,'...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/26/2007 | Website Analytics

Everyone Fears Google (Again)
Back at the beginning of this year, my 14 "Is Google Evil?" Tipping Points Since 2001 covered the history of how Google has been deemed to be too Big Brotherish...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/26/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Learning to Love Your Inner Pirate
When Amazon.com announced its plan to open a digital music store to sell MP3s, you had to really work to get excited about it. It's hard to think of a press release that...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/26/2007 | Digital Media

Who in The World is Entrepreneurial?
We scan the globe to uncover which countries are the most - and least - friendly to small business. When Rodrigo Veleso launched ONE World Enterprises in Los Angeles last...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/26/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

CoRank's Latest Version: Create Your own Digg
CoRank, the social bookmarking site that launched earlier this year, has launched a new version of its service, enabling you to essentially create your own Digg.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/26/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Queried on Privacy Policy
Google has been told that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people's search information on its servers for up to two years.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Got 100 dollars? 7 Experts Share Budget Website Marketing Tips
I contacted the biggest names in web marketing, branding, and search engine optimization and I asked them all the same question.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/25/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

The Final Days of Google: It is Going to Be An Inside Job
Back in the 1990s Bill Gates said the company that would eventually beat Microsoft probably had yet to be founded, by which he meant that Microsoft was in...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

comScore Releases April U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/25/2007 | Website Analytics

Facebook Expands Into MySpace's Territory
The Internet's second-largest social network is getting in MySpace's face with an ambitious strategy for expansion.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Advertising's Brave New World
For decades, advertising has been a relatively simple process dominated by a clubby world. Long-established advertising and media-buying agencies, most owned by half a...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Google-Proof PR?
Sue Scheff's business, Parents Universal Resource Experts, places troubled teens in reform schools--and generates a lot of controversy.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Facebook Video Launches: YouTube Beware!
There's a huge announcement buried under all the Facebook Platform buzz today: Facebook is launching a video service to compete with all the major video sharing sites.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Digital Media

Doctors, Patients Adapt as The Internet Intervenes in Health Care
Judy Feder is grateful for having what she calls a rare rapport with her oncologist: the ability to discuss material she finds on the Internet that could alter her treatment...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Valley's Impoverished Imagination
There's a story in the Guardian about the mobile content market, which is huge. Good factoid: Crazy Frog, an annoyingly popular ringtone, sold more downloads than Apple's....
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

More Distribution Deals for CBS, Dow Jones Online
If it's not another acquisition, it's a distribution deal, and yesterday it was CBS and Dow Jones Online that announced deals to push their content across the Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Digital Media

The New VC Way?
Y Combinator and others think tiny investments in startups is the wave of the future. Andres Morey didn't know what VCs did. Didn't have a clue where Silicon Valley was.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

CNN.com Dropping Fees for Live Video
CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs $25 (euro18.59) a year, becoming the latest news organization to revamp its revenue model on the Web.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Digital Media

Google Patent App Shows Extensive Google Plans For Mobile Search
A Google Patent application newly published on the United States Patent & Trademark Office website this morning appears to furnish extensive details on Google's plans...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/25/2007 | Search Marketing

Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Tests
If someone asked you at what grade level your site's content was written, could you tell them? What about whether it was fully compatible with every major browser?
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/25/2007 | Website Design & Development

N.J. Sues YouTube over Deadly Crash Footage
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is suing several video sites, including YouTube, for infringing on the copyright of car crash footage recorded on the turnpike, eWEEK...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Digital Media

Researchers Turn Web Blather to Books
A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/25/2007 | Digital Media

Exclusive: Facebook's New Face
The social networking company now wants to become a place for anyone to build applications for social computing. Fortune got an inside look.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

MySpace Vs. The Do-It-Yourselfers
Is MySpace taking on the little guys again? News Corp.'s social network is famous for letting users post just about anything they want on...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Disney's Digital Magic Kingdom
Walt Disney (DIS) is a great example of why media companies don't necessarily have to spend gajillions of dollars on Internet start-ups in order to establish a big digital...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs Set for Historic Conversation
For more than two decades, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates have sparred over the issues that were crucial to the development...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Aligning Keywords And Landing Pages
As a child you probably played "connect the dots," drawing a line from number to number to create a picture that answered a riddle. Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing presents...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/24/2007 | Search Marketing

Net Taxes Could Arrive by This Fall
The era of tax-free e-mail, Internet shopping and broadband connections could end this fall, if recent proposals in the U.S. Congress prove successful.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Can Video Save the Book-Publishing Star?
What Oprah Winfrey did for novelists on television, Simon & Schuster is hoping to do with online videos.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Digital Media

Pharmaceuticals Stay Healthy Online
The Internet is fast becoming the digital equivalent of the Physician's Desk Reference. An average of 55.3 million people per month, or 31% of US Internet users, visited a Web...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

How To Protect Your Domain Name
True story: A small business owner, who was not a client, called me one day with a problem. Let's call him "Dave." His web site was missing.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

TCM Has Room for Oldies Online
Turner Classic Movies has launched an online video destination devoted to classic films. Dubbed the Media Room, the video portal lives on the TCM.com...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Digital Media

Game Net Distribution 'Lift Off'
Steam, an online distribution platform for videogame content, has signed up more than 13 million users, the system's owners Valve has said.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Digital Media

Ancestry.com Posts 90M War Records
For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Technorati WTF - Let's Give it Another Chance
When Technorati initially launched their Digg-like feature WTF, which stands for Where's The Fire (yeah, right), reviews and opinions were mixed, and for a good reason.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Real Estate Engine Trulia Shows Momentum, Raises $10M
Trulia may be the dark-horse of the real estate market. Trulia, which offers a search engine for homes, has quietly been signing deals with large real estate brokers, and boosted...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Expands Translation Toolbox
Google Inc. planned to introduce a feature Wednesday that automatically translates Internet search requests and results in 12 languages, underscoring the rapidly growing...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Search Marketing

Cellphone Banking Is Coming of Age
YOU'RE starting a two-week vacation far from home when you suddenly realize you left the mortgage payment on the kitchen table instead of mailing it on the way to the airport.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Click Fraud Unbeatable Without Advertiser Data
Joseph Milana, chief scientist at Fair Isaac, discussed the early results of his company's click fraud study in an exclusive chat with WebProNews.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Search Marketing

Teenager Today, Tech Exec Tomorrow
A handful of enterprising teens have a message for parents and the media: the Net is not all MySpace or Facebook horror stories.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/24/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Internet Advertising Revenues Grow 35% In '06, Hitting $17 Billion
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today released the Internet Advertising Revenue Report which shows record results for the...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed
Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

AdSense Coming To a Video Near You
You've heard the expression "Content is king." We completely agree, and we also realize that these days website content is much more than just text...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 |  Adsense & Other Context Ads

Promising Antispam Technique Gets Nod
A key Internet standards body gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to a powerful technology designed to detect and block fake e-mail messages.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Newspapers want Google News' Quarter
For years now, newspapers have quietly watched Google index their headlines and offer users a synopsis of their stories without paying them a dime.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Announces Purge Of AD-Heavy Web Sites
Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Come Check Out The Refreshed Technorati.com!
We just launched a major refresh to www.technorati.com. Some of the changes are subtle, some are big, and they all build on a bunch of improvements we've been making...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Is the Google Video PlusBox Fair?
There's an interesting imbalance being created by Google's recent integration of videos right into their search results in the form of a PlusBox.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Search Marketing

PlentyOfFish Owner Has the Perfect Bait For a Huge Success
The headquarters of what may be, on a per-capita basis, the busiest, most profitable site on the entire World Wide Web is on the 16th floor of a brand-new Vancouver...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Virtual World Gold Rush?
Reports that Sony or News Corp. could snap up Club Penguin highlight the growing allure of such sites to potential acquirers.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Digital Media

Antigua Targets U.S. on Online Gaming
The tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda sought to enlist other countries Tuesday in targeting the U.S. over Washington's failure to comply with a WTO ruling that...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Disney CEO Discusses Future of Media
The traditional trip to the movies won't be entirely replaced by the Internet, or by new methods of consuming digital media, but the amount of time between theatrical...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Digital Media

YouTube Founder's Success Secrets
At a country club just off the M25 some of the biggest noises in the new media world are gathering to share big thoughts about the future.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

Is ASK.com An Also-Ran Or Winner?
Is Jim Lanzone's Ask.com winning or losing in the Internet search battle? The answer depends on who's defining the terms.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Search Marketing

Google's Goal to Organise Your Daily Life
Google's ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Will DRM-free Tunes Turbocharge Music Sales?
John McFarlane, is chief executive and founder of the consumer electronics company, Sonos Inc. Contrary to most of his peers, McFarlane believes that his company...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Digital Media

Music Industry Offers Deal to Small Webcasters
Facing an outcry over imminent royalty fee increases for Internet radio operators, the music industry body that lobbied for the changes has attempted a peace offering.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Digital Media

Some People Will Click On Anything
Pose whatever theory you like as to why, but an AdWords experiment revealed that people will click on just about anything - even if the ad tells them their computer will be...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Search Marketing

Google Turns the Page... in a Bad Way
In short, Google and Dell have teamed up to install some software on Dell computers that borders on being spyware. I say spyware because it's hard to figure out what it is and...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Future of Ask.com: Search? How About Advertising
Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has an interesting post today about Ask.com, in which he lays out his strategy for getting the search engine back on track.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/23/2007 | Search Marketing

Creating Bulletproof Graphic Link Buttons with CSS
A CSS problem I have been wrestling with lately is how to create a bulletproof shrinkwrapping graphic button. By that I mean an image-based button that will expand...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/23/2007 | Website Design & Development

The Man Who Owns The Internet
Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire.
eBusiness News | Posting 5/22/2007 | Domaineering

Google Service Chases What's Hot and What's Not
The art of trend-spotting is set to take a more scientific turn as Google, the world's top Web search company, on Tuesday is expected to unveil a service to track...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Search Marketing

Monster Worldwide's Founder Selling Stock.
Goldman Sachs comments on Monster Worldwide saying that according to SEC filings posted Monday, May 21, 2007, former Monster CEO Andy McKelvey sold 1,000,000 ...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

CBS Does Indeed Scoop Up Wallstrip
Wallstrip, an online video show that takes a whimsical approach to financial news, has been bought by CBS Interactive for a price in the single-digit millions...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Digital Media

CNN to Deliver More Local News On Its Web Site with IBSYS Stake
In a strategy shift, CNN, known primarily for national and international news, is expected to announce a deal that will allow it to offer more local news on its Web site and...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Ariva Launches A New Style of VC Firm
Ajit Shah, former general partner at Worldview Technology Partners, has put together a different kind of firm to make seed-stage investments in start-ups.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Silicon Valley Could Use A Downturn Right About Now
Silicon Valley is paradise for geeks, and people flock here from all over the world to be part of something very special. When I speak at events here one...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Message to Michael: Just Say, Well, No.
In what I can only describe as a sentimental-veering-toward-weepy riff on the ongoing saga of 'Silicon Valley Bubble: The Sequel,' TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington waxes...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Hands On: Microsoft Popfly Not As Easy As It Looks
As multimedia-driven web application platforms go, Flash is king. Adobe's interactive presentation technology is used for everything from streaming video and audio...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/22/2007 | Website Design & Development

Google Should Integrate User Feedback In Search Optimization
Davis Freeberg submits: Over the last few years, Google (GOOG) has become essential to how I surf the web. Whether it's its minimalistic advertising or its superior search...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Google At $950 Per Share: Extreme Transparency
To grow share, revenue and market capitalization, Google should adopt Extreme Transparency. Google dominates search with 70% market share.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Search Marketing

Flickr Has an 'e' in it...Web 2.0 Spelling CORRECTED
One of Internet trends that has started to irritate people over the last few years is dropping vowels from company names - Flickr, Tumblr, Pluggd, Talkr, Anothr.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Editors Explore Recent Redesigns at Major Web Sites
When you've got one of the largest, most successful newspaper Web sites in the country (and the world), making major changes to your homepage can be a big roll of the dice.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Sharing the Widget Wealth
Widgets jazz up profiles and boost traffic, but eat into social networks' ad revenue. Facebook and others ponder a remedy.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Digital Media

60 Elegant and Visually Appealing Designs
It's quite easy to get stuck in creativity blocks, but it's damn hard to get out of them. Particularly if you are out of time and don't want to compromise your...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/22/2007 | Website Design & Development

Artists and Labels Seek Royalties from Radio
With CD sales tumbling, record companies and musicians are looking at a new potential pot of money: royalties from broadcast radio stations.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Digital Media

Web Sites Expose Informants, and Justice Dept. Raises Flag
The Justice Department is urging federal courts to make fundamental changes in access to electronic court files.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Changing The Channel
Firm develops new ways of sending TV shows and ads over the Internet. For something that isn't available to the masses yet, Joost has a lot of people juiced.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Digital Media

Long Live the News Business
If the Internet crashed permanently tomorrow, I'd be thrilled. Still, the sky-is-falling view of the news business is way off the mark.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Says "No Secret Deals" with UK News Organizations
Scotland's Sunday Herald recently reported that Google has entered into secret deals with unnamed UK news organizations for the rights to use their material on Google News.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Zoho Notebook Looks Good
Zoho, the online competitor to Microsoft office, releases its Zoho Notebook application later this evening, and it looks very good.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Digital Media

Introducing Google's Online Security Efforts
Online security is an important topic for Google, our users, and anyone who uses the Internet. The related issues are complex and dynamic...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/22/2007 | Digital Media

MySpace Gets 80% of Social Network Visits
We all knew that MySpace was the dominant social networking darling, but we may not have realized that MySpace controls almost 80% of the social networking market.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/22/2007 | Website Analytics

Google, Salesforce.com in Possible Alliance
Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Digital Media

Noose Tightens Around Allofmp3.com
The recording industry has stepped up its battle to shut down allofmp3.com, announcing the arrest of a man who allegedly sold vouchers used to make purchases at the...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Digital Media

Microsoft Storms Madison Avenue
Last week's $6 billion agreement to buy aQuantive is not just a bid to catch up with Google and Yahoo in ad sales. It also gives Redmond something it hasn't had before...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Newspapers, TV and the Net - Its Convergence Time
Its interesting to me that the organizations that should be combining as quickly as they can aren't. What are the strongest news brands in this country? Rupert Murdoch...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Digital Media

Facebook Opens Its Pages As a Way to Fuel Growth
Facebook Inc. has bucked the Silicon Valley acquisition trend, remaining independent of larger technology companies. Now the social-networking start-up is seeking ways...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Man Who Took Google Global
Omid Kordestani, the firm's 12th man, talks about the risky move that paid off to the tune of $2 billion. When Omid Kordestani first met Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Social Networking for the Faithful
Web surfers are flocking to faith-based social networks, sometimes as an alternative to MySpace. Anyone who wants to join Xianz, a Christian social network, needs to...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Life Lessons for Hi-tech Start-ups
Silicon Valley is famous for its non-stop buzz and the relentless pace of the hi-tech industries that have their home there.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Welcome to The Era of Gullibility 2.0
Apple's stock took a tumble when popular tech blog Engadget posted a supposed "internal memo" indicating a significant delay in the releases of the much-anticipated iPhone...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Reach Deals with News Websites
INTERNET SEARCH engine Google is understood to have reached deals with several large UK news groups over carrying their content on Google News.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Foundational Links Don't Split, Crack Or Get Dugg Up
A lot of business owners I work with understand they need inbound links but aren't sure how to get started or prioritize their efforts. I suggest they begin by establishing a base...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/21/2007 | Link Building

Who Will Buy Facebook?
Last week billions of dollars changed hands in online related acquisitions. Anything that is worth buying is being bought.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Companies Try eBay to Sell Themselves
What do Beanie Babies, Pez Dispensers and troubled Internet companies have in common? They're all for sale on eBay.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 |  eBay & eCommerce

Bad Hair Days Lead Pair to Web Incubator and Venture Capital
FOR many entrepreneurs in the first dot-com boom, the name of the game was 'portal-matic.' Spin a wheel, pick a niche interest group, build a comprehensive Web...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Narrowing Online Market Focus
Keywords are key: Small businesses find pay-per-click ads can be economical tool. Howard Mora started buying pay-per-click Internet ads two years ago for his Fremont...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Search Marketing

Online Poker Players Bet on Prohibition Repeal
Anyone who thinks poker isn't a game of skill should see Boy Wonder playing Texas hold 'em online from his D.C. apartment. The 24-year-old sharp starts with six tables.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/21/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo's Rumored $1 Billion Talks With Bebo
Yahoo is rumoured to be working on an attempted takeover of Bebo, Britain's most popular social networking site, which could turn its British-born founder into the next...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/20/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Tapping into Overseas Venture Funding
The chief of a small software outfit talks about how entrepreneurs can land money from foreign VCs. Many entrepreneurs would love to attract venture capitalists eager to...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/20/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Learn Viral Marketing From Warner Bros.
Making a truly successful online viral marketing campaign is not an easy feat to accomplish. So when a golden opportunity to see a brilliant...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/20/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Geni: Earning That $100 million Valuation
When genealogy site Geni announced that it had raised a venture round from Charles River Ventures valuing the two month old startup at $100 million...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Death By Lawyer: 10 Cool Sites We Miss
At the beginning, everyone thought everything on the Internet is going to be free, forever. Yeah, right. Right now, the net is being constantly monitored, people are getting...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Reaping Results: Data-Mining Goes Mainstream
Programs add new streams of data - about neighborhood demographics and payday schedules, for example - to try to predict where crimes might occur.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/20/2007 | Website Analytics

Is Your Site Antisocial?
Social media sites such as Digg.com, Del.icio.us and Technorati are the darlings of online media. These sites, which aggregate content from various sources all over the...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/20/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Chronicle to Cut 25% of Jobs in Newsroom as Digital Looms
To cut costs and try to adapt to a changing media marketplace, The Chronicle will trim 25 percent of its newsroom staff by the end of the summer.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/20/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs