Hiro: Making Ad Insertion Dynamic
Last week I spoke over the phone with Hiro Media's Ronny Golan, who shares the title of founder and CEO with partner Ariel Napchi.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Digital Media

Rumors Fly on Microsoft and Yahoo
Microsoft and Yahoo are discussing a business partnership in their effort to compete with Google, people briefed on the talks said Friday.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Online Restaurant Reviews Have Big Impact
As more diners dish online, eateries see reviewers at every table. In Edward Ho's opinion, Kaze Sushi in Chicago's Roscoe Village neighborhood serves up the best sushi in town.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Bills Propose Reporter's Shield for Bloggers
Bloggers engaged in journalistic pursuits would be granted immunity from divulging confidential sources under a new bill pending in both chambers of Congress.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Microsoft-Yahoo? Don't Bet On It
Though the combination would be a formidable opponent to Google, company sources say merger reports are based on talks a few months ago...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Gadgets are Now an AdSense Unit
Webmasters will soon be able to auction off widget space on their sites and blogs managed and marketed by advertising powerhouse Google.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/05/2007 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Google Negotiating Buy-out of Simply Hired
Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdry says that Google is stepping up its efforts to buy VC-backed SimplyHired.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Google Shrugs at Possible Rival Deal
If the world needed another sign of Google Inc.'s dominance, it came Friday. Software behemoth Microsoft Corp. was reported to be trying to buy the Web search...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Ask: Is the Algorithm Working?
Making your way to the restroom you're confronted with advertising that tells you that 75% of online information goes through one company.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Search Marketing

Aftermarket Domain Valuation Factors
Consumers purchase domains for a variety of reasons. These unique motivating factors shape the value which is attributed to domains by individual buyers.
eBusiness Information | Posting 5/05/2007 | Domaineering

Kicking The Tires On Shopping Search, Part Two: The Independents
A few weeks back, we looked at how the major engines, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, handled shopping search. This week we look at four of the...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Search Marketing

Do-It-Yourself Eyeglass Shopping on the Internet
The biggest impediment to widespread embrace of Internet eyeglass shopping might be that the glasses still aren't cheap enough online.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Are Video Streamers Your Best Audience?
Are heavy Internet users more likely to be video watchers, or is it the other way around? Regular users of streaming audio and video spend more time online than average...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Digital Media

Veodia Offers High-End Broadcasting, and Me.TV Joins Parade
Veodia is the latest company pushing improvements in video, for bloggers or others wanting to broadcast high-end content.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/05/2007 | Digital Media

Learn Symfony: a Beginner's Tutorial
With the release of symfony 1.0, it's time for those who haven't tried it yet to see what's inside this beautiful framework.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/05/2007 | Website Design & Development

MarketWatch: Microsoft/Yahoo Deal Not Happening
Shares of Yahoo Inc. surged Friday on reports it was in talks about a possible combination with Microsoft, but gave up nearly half the gains late in the day after a...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Monster Rumored to Be in Takeover Talks
Monster Worldwide could announce a sale at any time, speculated an industry executive. Monster declined to comment. Approaches by suitors are likely as a result of chatter...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

YouTube Facing Football Lawsuit
The English Premier League is to sue video-sharing site YouTube for alleged copyright infringement.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Digital Media

Digg Debacle Reviewed: The Revolution Will Be Posted
If nothing else, social news site Digg.com learned that its users don't dig being censored.Tuesday was a whirlwind day for Digg, complete...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Microsoft Weighing Yahoo Takeover
Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Microsoft Explains Mobile Ad Network Purchase
Microsoft has pushed its mobile version of Windows and sold mobile advertising on its own sites for awhile. But the real traffic is on the carrier decks...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

YouTube Starts Paying Star Users
It will be hard to miss Afterworld, a new animated show featuring a cell phone salesman who makes a long, lonely trek home after all technology fails in a post-apocalyptic world.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Yahoo Photos Going Dark as Flickr Shines On
Yahoo is shutting down Yahoo Photos - for years, the No. 1 or No. 2 most-visited photo site on the Web. Its users will be directed to move their pictures to Yahoo's hot...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Digital Media

PR Newswire to Offer Comprehensive Blog Measurement Tool
Partnership with Umbria gives communications professionals a sophisticated tool to track blogosphere discussions and measure how messages resonate among consumers...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/04/2007 | Website Analytics

Small is The New Big
A wave of tech-enabled shops finally deliver on all the Web 2.0 hype. Richard Moross, a twenty-something Londoner, was bored with the business cards most...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

The Online Battle for Advertising
Welcome to the new faces of Britain's advertising industry - Google and Yahoo. Both companies now have big London operations, and it is clear when you step...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

TheFunded, the Site for VC Hatchet Jobs
The Funded, the Web site that lets people anonymously rate venture capitalists, is causing some concern in venture capital circles about the hatchet jobs on VC firms.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Venture Capital

Yahoo, Google Test New Search Results Pages
Karl Ribas found that Yahoo it testing a design that has a thing top blue bar and then the search results. The blue really doesn't remind me of Yahoo...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/04/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Sony Spins Web to Pitch Spidey
To snare outsize audiences for "Spider-Man 3," which cost about $400 million to make and release, Sony Pictures cast its widest online promotional net ever...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

YouTube's Commercial Audition
It will be hard to miss Afterworld, a new animated show featuring a cell phone salesman who makes a long, lonely trek home after all technology fails in a post-apocalyptic world.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Ten Ways You Can Use YouTube To Promote Your Online Content
YouTube is nothing less than an online video phenomenon and if you aren't already using it as a tool to promote yourself or your online content, you should really...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/04/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Web Metrics That Actually Add Up
Everything on the Web is measurable in so many disparate ways, it's easy to see why many marketers despair they'll ever get a...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/04/2007 | Website Analytics

eBay's New Services Are Chaotic - But Will They Still Be Profitable?
Earlier this week eBay launched ToGo Widgets for any listing. These slick, Flash-based widgets can be embedded into blogs...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Sedo Ranked as Top Domain Name Parking Service
Domain aftermarket and parking service Sedo took top honors for parking in the 2007 Domain Name Wire survey.
eBusiness Information | Posting 5/04/2007 | Domaineering

12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
While the Internet still retains some of the 'wild wild west' feel, increasingly Internet activity, and particular blogging...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Goes Wireless
A coalition led by the Web search giant is scoring early wins in a tussle over $10 billion in wireless airwaves...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/04/2007 | Digital Media

30 Orange Websites
As summer approaches lets take a look at some nice warming websites. Today we look at some of the best examples of orange websites...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/04/2007 | Website Design & Development

Why Online Music Will Stay Locked Up
Last month, EMI Group and Apple announced that they would begin selling online music without usage restrictions that major labels had previously insisted on.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Digital Media

Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style
I wrote in December that PageRank is Dead and that something such as abusing the NOFOLLOW attribute for other purposes (The intention for NOFOLLOW were not...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/03/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

AOL Slips to No. 3 on Internet
AOL has given up its title as the leading Internet service provider, a reflection of changing consumer habits and its own strategic shift.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Digital Media

Twitter Nation: Nobody Cares What You're Doing
Meet Twitter, the new kid in school. This social networking service seems friendly enough, plays well with other technologies...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Online TV Viewing 'On The Rise'
Almost half of European broadband users are using their computers to watch television online, a survey claims.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Digital Media

Publicis Worldwide Launches New Global Digital Arm
Effective immediately, Modem Media becomes Publicis Modem, the new global digital arm of Publicis Worldwide. The move signifies the critical role digital will play throughout...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

IAC Web Ad Revenue Up as Ask.com Campaign Launches
IAC/InterActiveCorp., owner of Ask.com, Citysearch, Match and other online entities, reported a 10 percent boost in revenue in Q1 2007 over Q1 2006...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

The Web, Ozzie Make Their Mark at Microsoft
Is it time to start talking about the "new Microsoft"? At the company's Mix '07 conference here this week, the star was Silverlight, Redmond's browser plug-in for creating...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

MySpace Wouldn't Have Survived Without News Corp.
If MySpace hadn't been sold to News Corp., it wouldn't exist today. That was the verdict from Richard Rosenblatt, chairman-CEO of Demand Media and former CEO of Intermix...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Has Google Created A Monster?
The Google vs. MSN Rock Em Sock Em fight provides an interesting juxtaposition. In an outcome that seems surreal...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Digital Media

Belgian Newspapers Return to Google
Belgian French-language newspapers were back on Google on Thursday after agreeing that the search engine can link to their Web sites...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

YouTube Pushing Copyright Laws to Breaking Point
Copyright laws need to be dramatically rethought to deal with the exponential growth and novel pressures of websites like YouTube...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | eBiz Startup & Management

When Everyone's A Critic
Thanks to the consumer reviews on TripAdvisor.com, by the time I walked into my London hotel room, some 5,357 miles from home...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Pandora To Shut Out Non-U.S. Users Thursday Evening
If you live outside of the U.S. and enjoy listening to customized radio stations on Pandora, brace yourself for some bad news.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | Digital Media

Disney's Vista Gadget Points To Future Of Marketing Widgets
All the buzz here at Microsoft MIX in Vegas is rightly about Silverlight, but one other impressive demo I came across was a Vista gadget (a.k.a. widget) for Disney.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/03/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Legion of Influencers Use E-Mail
Everyone has some influence, but people with larger networks use more technology to spread theirs, according to "Understanding Influence, and Making It Work For You:...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

CBS SportsLine Slashes E-Mail Lists in the Name of Quality
E-mail marketers and media companies focused on newsletter distribution tend to assume that bigger is better when it comes to list size.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/03/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

Search Strategy Expo Part 2: Analytics and Conversion
Today we wrap up our coverage of the Search Engine Strategy Conference held recently in New York City, with an overview of analytics and conversion tactics.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/03/2007 | Website Analytics

Digg in Tough Spot with DMCA Debacle
It was a whirlwind Tuesday for the social news site Digg, complete with a cease-and-desist letter, a mutinous user base and speculation that it might get...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Barry Diller Goes Local in Search For Online Ad Dollars
Diller's employees at IAC/InterActiveCorp (nasdaq: IACI - news - people ), his confusingly named grab bag of Internet outfits, are making a concerted push into local markets...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

The Big Shots Of Blogdom
When Michael Arrington wrote a post on his TechCrunch blog a year ago dissing Marc Andreessen's new startup, Ning, the company's execs promptly sprang into action...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Introducing Robots-Nocontent for Page Sections
We recently returned from our annual rendezvous at SES New York and, like always, learned a lot from our webmasters.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/02/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

The Lobby - Are You on The List?
David Hornik, a partner at August Capital, a venture capital firm that prides itself at being at the center of Silicon Valley action, likes to wax on about the value of conferences.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Venture Capital

Peter Gabriel Tries Ad-Supported Music Downloads; Launches We7
Should have told you about this earlier ... musician Peter Gabriel has teamed with technology entrepreneur Steve Purdham and VC John Taysom to launch...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Digital Media

AOL's Advertising Alive and Kicking
AOL transition from a subscription service to largely free broadband portal is being eased by a surge in advertising revenue.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Microsoft Exec Pitches 'User-Driven Marketing'
The intermingling of media-rich consumer devices and socially oriented Web services is opening up new avenues in marketing, according to Robert Bach, head of ...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

A Riot Breaks Out on Digg
Attempts to gag the blogosphere from publishing details of a DVD crack have led to a user revolt. The row centred on a 'cease and desist' letter sent by the body that oversees...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Photobucket Snaps a Portrait of Success
Photobucket is by far the No. 1 online photo-sharing site. But if you're not a MySpace user, you've probably never heard of it.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Digital Media

Online Ad Bubble 2.0
The latest game of online merger musical chairs has stopped and it looks like Microsoft (MSFT) is the odd man out looking for a seat.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

The Big Shots Of Blogdom
When Michael Arrington wrote a post on his TechCrunch blog a year ago dissing Marc Andreessen's new startup, Ning, the company's execs promptly sprang into action...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Microsoft Exec Pitches 'User-Driven Marketing'
The intermingling of media-rich consumer devices and socially oriented Web services is opening up new avenues in marketing, according to Robert Bach, head of ...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

AOL's Advertising Alive and Kicking
AOL transition from a subscription service to largely free broadband portal is being eased by a surge in advertising revenue.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Disney Unveils Social Network for Preteens
Walt Disney Co. unveiled a program on Tuesday to let preteens create personal mini Web sites like MySpace's very popular social networking site for older teens...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Trademark Battlefield
Some companies filing lawsuits against search engines argue ad sales generated from registered names are infringing on trademark rights.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Search Marketing

Podcast Downloads Set New Record
It wasn't too long ago people were skeptical about the future of podcasting - it is, after all, easy to be a skeptic about a...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Digital Media

The Golden Rule of SEO: Content is King
If you've been around the search marketing block a few times, you've heard this statement more times than you can count.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/02/2007 | Link Building

The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, April 2007
This is the best list of Alternative Search Engines I have ever done. It has to be. With each monthly update, several things happen that serve to improve the list.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Search Marketing

Why You Should Deep-Link Your Blog
In Exposing the Invisible Web to Search Engines, I mentioned that new blogs often have pages that are essentially invisible, and that many remain that way.
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/02/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Business Crawls onto Web 2.0
The buzz around collaborative Web 2.0 technologies keeps going, and it is easy to think that every firm now has a blog, a wiki and an RSS feed.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

GoDaddy Selected as Top Domain Name Registrar
The world's biggest domain registrar is also the best, according to Domain Name Wire's annual survey.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

5 Reasons To Put Viral Content On Mini-Sites
As search marketers, mini-sites might not seem to make sense. Why put content on a new domain when you could just put it on your existing domain, so it can benefit from...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/02/2007 | eMail & Viral Marketing

2007 Webby Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 11th Annual Webby Awards have been announced. See which of your favorite nominees walked away with the awards.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The Promise of Online Display Ads
On the heels of Google's DoubleClick deal, Yahoo! is forking over $680 million for Right Media. Why are ad exchanges and networks suddenly the belle of the ball?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Matt Cutts Responds to Forbes 'Google Hell' Article
Andy Greenberg wrote an article for Forbes entitled 'Condemned To Google Hell' about supplemental results. I was getting ready to go on vacation...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/01/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Have a .TV Domain Name? You Can Join me.tv
Demand Media rolled out me.tv today, a new social network around person video sites. You have to have a .tv domain name to...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Joost Goes Live!
Joost, the online TV service founded by Skype and Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, officially launched today.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Digital Media

Next Digital Darling Will Bear No Likeness to MySpace, YouTube
AdTech's Soothsayers Contend Big Payoff Will Come for Ad Networks and Others Who Ride the Long Tail. What's the next big thing? Does one exist?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Calls Viacom Suit on YouTube Unfounded
Responding to Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement suit, Google said that it would not back off, declaring that the law was on its side.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Digital Media

Microsoft to Snap Up 24/7 Real Media?
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, is a contender to buy Internet advertising firm 24/7 Real Media for as much as $1 billion, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Venture Capital

Nielsen to Acquire Remaining Interest in BuzzMetrics
The Nielsen Company, a leading global information and media company, and BuzzMetrics, the global leader in tracking and analysis of online consumer...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/01/2007 | Website Analytics

The Founder of Wikipedia Believes He Can Topple Google
Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, slayer of Britannica, has a new giant in his sights: Google. And he thinks he has got a better way to search. Is he delusional--or inspired?
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Google Dubs Personal Home Page 'iGoogle'
Already synonymous with looking things up on the Internet, Google Inc. is creating a new name for stamping a personal touch on its Web site - iGoogle.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Turning Dimes Into Dollars: The Basics Of Low-Bid PPC
U.S. cable television leader Comcast Corp. and Internet media company Yahoo Inc. said on Monday they had agreed to a multi-year partnership for Yahoo to supply web...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Yahoo Signs up Comcast for Web Ads Deal
U.S. cable television leader Comcast Corp. and Internet media company Yahoo Inc. said on Monday they had agreed to a multi-year partnership for Yahoo to supply web...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Bubble 2.0?
Start-up internet companies valued on their ability to attract 'eyeballs', public offerings by lossmaking companies, dozens of 'me-too' websites copying the strategies of a handful...
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Venture Capital

How to Get Bought by Google
May is a month of rebirth and new beginnings. It's a time when flowers are blooming, trees are flowering, and young bucks lock horns in battle over the privilege of choosing a mate.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Venture Capital

Jason Calcanis' Next Venture
Jason Calacanis, the publishing entrepreneur who sold a group of weblogs to AOL for $25m, has enjoyed sewing confusion about his plans.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Venture Capital

Silverlight: The Web Just Got Richer
Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the recently-released Silverlight (formerly known as Windows Presentation...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/01/2007 | Website Design & Development

Large Chinese Internet Company Plans to Go Public
Alibaba.com, which is partly owned by Yahoo, is a business-to-business site whose public offering could raise $1 billion.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Venture Capital

Buyout Buzz Aids Online Ad Market
The Internet advertising market was already growing at a healthy pace when Google Inc. bought online advertising company DoubleClick Inc.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Venture Capital

BBC Gets TV On-Demand Service OK
BBC shows such as Doctor Who and EastEnders are to be made available on-demand after the BBC's iPlayer service was given the green light.
eBusiness News | Posted 5/01/2007 | Digital Media

Yahoo's New Ad Campaign Plays to Users' Needs
Yahoo, the Web brand that's a distant No. 2 behind Google in search market share and search ad revenue, will try to click better with consumers with a new message...
eBusiness Information | Posted 5/01/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Marketing

Masters of The Blogosphere: The 25 Most Influential Blogs
There are many blog popularity-ranking services on the web, but unfortunately, they all rely on only one piece of data for their rankings. Either link popularity...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Condemned To Google Hell
Don't anger the Google gods. That's the lesson Paul Sanar learned--too late--last year. Up until last fall, the 21-year-old New Yorker depended solely on the search engine...
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/30/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

The Travails of Tracking Web Traffic
The practice of using consumer panels to estimate Web-site traffic is coming under increased scrutiny and fueling calls for industrywide standards
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/30/2007 | Website Analytics

Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Online Ad Exchange Right Media
Key Step in Executing Yahoo!'s Long-Term Strategy to Transform How Online Advertisers Connect to and Engage With Their Customers - Both On and Off the Yahoo! Network
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Search Marketers Keep Spending
No need to look elsewhere, search execs say. According to the "US SEM Executive Survey, 2007" report, from JupiterResearch, two-thirds of search marketers expect...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Search Marketing

eBay Launches 'ToGo' Widgets For Any Listing
As you can see with the embedded Flash widget above, eBay is now letting users embed information about any listing or group of listings directly into a website.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

RegisterFly's Implosion Nears Its Bizarre End
In the world of domainers, it seems one name is on everyone's lips. The RegisterFly debacle has all the aspects of a front-page scandal: sex, CEO spending excesses...
eBusiness Information | Posting 4/30/2007 | Domaineering

Why Hollywood Suddenly Loves Tech?
Hollywood, in past few months has become increasingly enthusiastic about new technologies - especially those pertaining to online video.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Digital Media

The Businesses That eBay Built
For someone who's interested in starting a retail business, I can't think of a more perfect incubator than eBay (EBAY - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating).
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

SplashCast Adds New RSS to Media Player
SplashCast, the media widget player, is announcing their new RSS feature today. The new RSS functionality will let you display video and audio enclosures on your SplashCast...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Digital Media

A Virtual Ad Agency for Online Radio
As more people listen to the radio over the Internet, radio stations have been looking to generate new advertising revenue from the medium.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Can Sony Click with Download Store?
Scores of companies are betting there's gold in helping go-go commuters and road warriors catch the latest episodes of 24 and Grey's Antatomy.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Digital Media

IAC Launches Zwinktopia At Peak of Virtual World Hype
The timing couldn't be much better for InterActiveCorp to launch Zwinktopia, a new virtual world for young teens. Other virtual worlds, such as Gaia, Habbo Hotel, Cyworld...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Digital Media

Reuters Acquires Text Search Company Clearforest
Reuters is acquiring text-analytics software maker Clearforest, which has been working with the news service to boost search rankings for its business stories.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Venture Capital

Online Pornography: Kink.com - A Disciplined Business
The creation of online pornography is becoming more acceptable, more rarefied and more challenging financially. That's enough to turn on Peter Acworth.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Agloco, the Web 2.0 Pyramid Company, to Release Viewbar
Agloco, the company that pledges to pay you for surfing the Web, is about to deliver the download that will let you start earning credit.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

MySpace: Who Tom Sued and Why
We frequently hear that MySpace is being sued - most recently by parents - but MySpace has also taken action against plenty of users who are abusing the site.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

ABC News Gets a Web 2.0 Make Over
The new site is designed to harness the power of community. And by community we mean 'citizen reporters,' our viewers and readers who help us report the news...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/ 2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Selling With A Blog
Interactive marketing has its fashionable trends like any other industry, and the business blog has been its red carpet champion for the past few years.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/30/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood
A Silicon Valley startup hopes to turn America's televisions into limitless multiplexes, changing the landscape of the home entertainment business.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/29/2007 | Digital Media

The Internet Sure Loves its Outlaws
THEY may not wield battle-axes or wear horned helmets like their Viking forebears, but today's Swedish pirates are still wreaking some pretty heavy-duty havoc.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/29/2007 | Digital Media

eBay: Redefining 'It' in More Ways Than One
With such large markets available for eBay's new businesses, it is not difficult to imagine a future in which eBay's auction business no longer dominates the company.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/29/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Why e-books are Bound to Fail
E-books, those flat electronic tablets designed for reading downloadable, software-based books, are often packed with advanced displays and other leading-edge technology.
eBusiness News | Posted 4/29/2007 | Digital Media

Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and some other Wikis
There was a lot of controversy recently when Wikipedia announced that all outbound links from the online encyclopedia would include the nofollow tag.
eBusiness Information | Posted 4/29/2007 | Search Engine Optimization

Online Banking and Bill Payment Spur Loyalty
For the first time ever, online bill payments surpassed paper checks among Internet households, according to a CheckFree report titled 'The 2007 Consumer...
eBusiness News | Posted 4/29/2007 | eBay & eCommerce