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Robert Murdoch Planning to Block Google from News Corp

November 29th, 2009

In an unprecedented move, a major news source is planning to completely turn its back on the internet instead of attempting to grow with the times. Rupert Murdoch is planning to launch a paid content strategy sometime next year and in a recent Sky News interview he announced that Google would be blocked from the [...]

 
 
 

Google Buys Teracent

November 29th, 2009

Google has arranged to deliver more targeted ads by acquiring Teracent, a company that took intelligent display advertising to a new level. According to the Google blog: Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time — tweaking images, products, messages or colors. These elements can [...]

 
 
 

Wikipedia Going Downhill?

November 26th, 2009

Professional writers know one golden rule – never, ever, start an article with “According to Wikipedia…”. Apparently a lot of web folks haven’t figured that out yet. A post by Andrew Gelman at Columbia.edu was talking about a new informational knowledge type site called Sourcewatch, that had a Wikipedia appearance, and stated: …for  better or [...]

 
 
 

Yahoo Moving??

November 26th, 2009

Is Sunnyvale no longer going to be the Yahoo HQ? According to the Mercury News: Yahoo is moving forward with plans to build a new campus that would house as many as 12,000 workers in Santa Clara, potentially the largest single real estate development in the city’s history. The total complex would include about 3 [...]

 
 
 

Canadian, Aussie Governments Okay Google-Hoo

November 26th, 2009

Although apparently the DOJ is still on the fence, those north of the border as well as down under feel that Microsoft / Google partnership is a good idea. Although the DOJ has not yet signed off on the deal and the two search ginats keep begging for more time to iron out details, the [...]

 
 
 
 
 

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