SEOs and SMMs alike will tell you the difference between old media and new media is that old media doesn’t get it. They don’t trust technology, they don’t want to learn it and they simply don’t use it. It’s no coincidence that those old media firms that simply don’t seem to move on out of [...]
Understanding the New Media
December 6th, 2011Yahoo’s New Moves
December 5th, 2011SEOs are paying close attention to the news that Yahoo Projector and Yahoo’s The Set are being placed on an ice floe and left to die. Tim and Will did a good enough job working with what they had, but ultimately Yahoo finally realized the projects were financial sinkholes. While content related to TV and [...]
Real Time News Reporting in the Financial Sector Under Fire
June 23rd, 2010A popular subscription based website, TheFlyOnTheWall.com, is under fire for reporting news too quickly – and Google and Twitter are leaping to its defense. “With information directly sourced from Wall Street traders, brokers, and institutional investors, theflyonthewall.com effectively delivers relevant, equity news in a concise and timely manner.” The service allows anonymous tipsters to leave [...]
Microhoo is a Go
February 18th, 2010Yahoo and Microsoft have finally received the go ahead on their deal for Microsoft to power search and ads for Yahoo. According to Yahoo! Finance, the deal is finally greenlighted: Microsoft and Yahoo! announced today that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the [...]
Yahoo Still Top Dog in News
December 31st, 2009Google and Bing may be edging Yahoo out of the search market, but Yahoo is still the globe’s first stop for online news, according to Compete; this graph shows Yahoo clearly topping all competitors: Over the past five years, the main sites that people go to for news have remained the same: 2004: Yahoo News [...]