How Many Facebook Users Actually Read the Wall Street Journal?
The fact that the WSJ and Facebook have just partnered on a new initiative to let Facebook users share their favorite news stories, surely demonstrates one of...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo to Cut 1,000 Jobs
Online search engine operator Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit declined a bit more than 23 percent as higher operating expenses overshadowed...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

EBay Cutting Listing Fees, Boosting Commissions
EBay Inc. said Tuesday it will cut by up to 50 percent the fees it charges sellers to list their goods online, in an effort to boost listings and keep pace with...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash
A new application called Sprout, launching in private beta at DEMO today, promises to make the creation of Flash applets a whole lot easier.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Website Design & Development

MySpace Developer Platform Launching on February 5th
MySpace has just announced that they will be launching their developer platform on February 5th. You can pre-register now by going to...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Sprint-Clearwire: Will 3rd Pipe Dreams Come True?
Sprint, after breaking up with Clearwire last November and walking away from the proposed WiMAX joint venture, is rethinking its position, according to the Wall Street Journal.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Digital Media

Beyond Vertical Search to Business Networks
Vertical Search is one of those confusing terms that means many different things, depending on where you are coming from. To most RWW readers, Vertical Search...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Search Marketing's 800-Pound Gorilla
eMarketer estimates that over $8.6 billion was spent on search engine advertising in 2007. "The spectacular gains for US search advertising spending over 10 years...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Search Marketing

Microsoft Grabs WSJ Search Ad Deal
Unlike another well-known News Corp property, MySpace, the Wall Street Journal opened its search advertising opportunity to Microsoft.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Liberty Media Moves to Oust Diller
Liberty Media Corp.'s John Malone, a longtime business partner of Barry Diller, took action Monday to oust Diller from the board of the IAC/InterActiveCorp Internet conglomerate.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google's Newspaper Ads: Big Hopes For Small Barcodes
Google's efforts to get into the newspaper ad business have yet to yield much. One tool it hopes will eventually change that: Small, square barcodes...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd’s Wisdom
One of the oldest rivals to the community news site Digg is pointing to recent unrest at the site as evidence that the social news model is flawed.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

U2 Manager Urges ISPs to Help Fight Web Piracy
The music industry should shift the focus of its battle with internet piracy towards the technological industries which have “built multibillion dollar industries...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Digital Media

Introducing Prologue
We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | Website Design & Development

Wisdom of the Web
It may be a little late to the game, but business travel is now the subject of a variety of blogs. In the last two years, companies in the travel business including...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | eBay & eCommerce