Google continues to rollout fresh new “What Have We Here” items. The latest is Live Search. This new product appears in the normal SERP and gives searchers a peak into the stream of new posts from Twitter, Facebook and blogs.It is the culmination of Google’s agreement with Twitter and allows them to provide users access [...]
With one eye on some of the $45 billion recreational fishing market and the other on the hundreds of millions of users Facebook has attract, GoFISHn.com is the latest site angling for anglers. “Nobody has done a good job in enthusiast sites,” founder Ned Desmond, looking to buck the trend, tells TechCrunch. Read full story [...]
Apple (AAPL) is under fire from some developers for the way it vets applications that can be sold on its online App Store. Facebook developer Joe Hewitt goes so far as to say he’s “philosophically opposed” to the very notion of a company deciding which applications can and can’t be used on its hardware. Trrad [...]
Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of [...]
In a bid to bolster its toehold in mobile-display advertising, Google is acquiring mobile-advertising network AdMob for $750 million in stock, sparking what could be the beginning of a major consolidation in the mobile-display advertising sector. Google’s strategy to buy rather than build was an admission that it needed outside expertise in display advertising, as [...]
Is Apple about to disrupt the television industry even further? Rumors are circulating that the company is looking into the possibility of offering a TV subscription service through iTunes for $30 per month. It might offer content producers an alternative to becoming ‘Napsterized,’ suggested analyst Michael Goodman. Read full story via E-Commerce News
At the famed Capitol Records building in Hollywood, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) officially unveiled its OneBox music search service. First news tidbit to emerge is that MySpace will be the brand powering the streaming music, videos and track purchases—not new acquisition iLike, as was initially reported. Read full article via paidContent.
Adobe announced it’s acquisition of the online marketing company Omniture. Adobe Systems Incorporated is pleased to announce its recent acquisition of Omniture, Inc. We’re excited about the opportunities this combination creates. By combining Adobe’s content creation tools and ubiquitous clients with Omniture’s Web analytics, measurement and optimization technologies, the company will be well positioned to [...]
Sen. John McCain has increased the volume in the Net neutrality debate on the heels of the FCC’s notice that it would begin crafting rules. McCain opposes any regulations that would impede the freedom of Internet service providers to decide how to manage traffic on their networks. via E-Commerce News
Within hours of each other, both Bing and Google announced new deals to tie their search engines in with two of the biggest names in social networking — Facebook and Twitter. Status updates and tweets will become searchable content on both engines. The goal is to give searches more up-to-the-minute relevance, and that means looking [...]