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We are hearing more reports about social media combining with email. This has been evolving for a decade or so, and now we have Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) reportedly trying to either catch up or take this one step further. There have been many rumors about more and more social-features coming, so this may just be nothing more than a finalization of news under development. A report first from the Wall Street Journal, with Gmail unveiling a new feature that makes it easier and faster for users to communicate and share data or content with their approved contacts. Where this gets interesting is that this is the exact sort of issue that News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) and the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) may want to squash.
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Gmail and Social Media Meet-Up, No Clear Winners (GOOG, NWS, NYT)
An Unprecedented Public-Private Partnership As Google And NSA Team On Cyberattacks
Google (GOOG) will not have to go it alone as it attempts to unravel cyberattacks on its service in China which have raised the question about how vulnerable the search company’s servers are in other parts of the world. The Google problem extends to every major website from Twitter to CNN.com that could be a target of major attacks by hackers.
The problem with internet security is not limited to public websites. Cyberattacks that apparently originated in North Korea last year had as their targets US government data sites and the internet operations of major US corporations. Read More
Texting May Ruin Twitter Growth
Texting, a simple method to send messages from wireless handset to handset, may be the largest single roadblock to Twitter’s growth.
A survey by Pew shows that among internet users between 8 and 17 years old, only 8% use Twitter while 66% of the age group send or receive text messages. That means that millions of people are bypassing Twitter as a means of communicating though short messages. Even among older teens between the ages of 14 and 17, only 10% are likely to use Twitter. In another survey, Pew found that 19% of adults online use Twitter. Read More
Reuters: The Toyota (NYSE:TM) recalls grew to 8 million.No More Profits In Tweeting From Space Than From Earth
Credit Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer on his way to the International Space Station. AppScout reports that his first tweet was “Hello Twitterverse!”, which may have been less profound that Neil Armstong’s ”That’s one small step for man; one large leap for mankind” statement when he put the first human foot on the Moon.
Twitter continues to garner huge amounts of PR and has been able to raise large amounts of money. It has been observed often that they company has no business model and has not been able to lay out any articulate plan for making money. Read More
Bill Gates Joins Twitter
It took Microsoft (NADSAQ:MSFT) founder Bill Gate long enough to join Twitter. Now he can join President Obama and Demi Moore as fans of the social media network based on sending people short phrases.
According to CNET, “The first post by the real Bill Gates was a note that he plans to release the second of his annual foundation letters on Monday.” That may be a sign the Gates will use Twitter for philanthropic purposes rather than as a way to promote Microsoft. Read More
Largest Search Engine In China Taken Down By Hackers
Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) may want to take note. China’s largest search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), was taken down by hackers and several reports say users were pointed to an “Iranian Cyber Army” web page.
The frequency with which sites like Twitter are being taken down is growing. Hackers have become more sophisticated and are better able to break into the servers on which run almost all large sites Read More
Ford’s New Onboard Software: A Prelude To Rising Accidents
Ford’s (NYSE:F) slogan used to be ”Have You Driven A Ford Lately?” Those who have not will find that the firm’s new cars come with access to Twitter, online maps, internet radio, and many other things that work over the web.
Ford’s Sync software array has helped the company sell cars. The firm claims that those vehicles with the feature sell twice as fast as those without it. According to The Los Angeles Times, “So far, Sync appears to be helping Ford with its turnaround.” Read More
A New Threat To Cell Phone Security From An Old Source—The Hacker
Nothing stays safe forever, at least not in the world of information technology and digital communication. Hackers are able to break into sophisticated bank security systems and steal money. Talented coders recently shut down services like Twitter and hackers from North Korea menaced some US government websites. Read More
Hackers Take Twitter Down Again
Twitter is the third largest social network by most measures behind Facebook and MySpace. Most internet measurement services say that Twitter is the fastest-growing of the three with its pool of users still doubling over last year.
Twitter has used its popularity to raise money, despite the fact that it does not have a concrete plan to make money. Twitter was valued at over $250 million as it raised money earlier this year.
If Twitter has an Achilles Heel which is likely to effect users and put off investors, it is that the service is periodically down. Today, hackers took Twitter down again. This time a group called the Iranian Cyber Army took credit. Read More
The Biggest Online Winners And Losers For 2009: EBay Traffic Collapse
Some of the largest websites in the country had extraordinary swings in their audiences in 2009. Many of the most well-known web destinations lost large portions of their traffic
Based on data from Hitwise comparing US traffic market share from January to figures from November Ebay (NASDAQ:EBAY) lost 37% of its visitors. Craigslist lost 43% of its traffic, making it the largest loser among the top 25 sites. Neither number is surprising. Ebay’s earnings have been lackluster. Classified postings for apartments and jobs at Craigslist may have been hurt by the recession. Read More
Top 50 Websites Dominated By Search And E-Mail (GOOG)(YHOO)(MSFT)(AOL)
The Top Fifty websites based on their percent of US online visits from January to November 2009 are dominated by search and e-mail. The top dozen sites according to data from Hitwise include the Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) Mail, MSN (NASDAQ:MSFT) Mail, Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) and AOL (NYSE:AOL) Mail, in that order. Search destinations Google, Yahoo!, search Yahoo!, and Bing are among the top fourteen sites. Facebook is the No.3 site with 4.26% of US visitors and MySpace is No.5 with 3%. YouTube holds the No.7 spot with 1.42% of US visits.
There are a surprising number of commercial bank destinations among the Top Fifty sites. These include five different URLs that cover three banks–Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC), and JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM).
There are very few e-commerce site on the list–Ebay (NASDAQ:EBAY) at No.10, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) at No.18, PayPal at No.32, and Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) at No. 36. The data shows what an uphill climb the internet is for most large retailers.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Top 50 URLs is how little they have changed in the last five years. Except for social networks the names are about the same: AOL, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Ebay, Amazon, Wikipedia, and Craigslist.
Media Digest 11/30/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: UAE shares fell on Dubai debt problem news.
Reuters: The Treasury will meet with mortgage companies to try to get them to accelerate loan modifications.
Reuters: Holiday shoppers did not use credit cards as much as in the past.
Reuters: Shoppers are increasing the use of e-commerce. Read More
Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/25/2009) (GE)(AAPL)
Updated throughout the day
Calpers has launched an investigation of its own oversight practices (LA Times)
Hedge fund assets may rebound to pre-crisis levels (Reuters)
GE’s (NYSE:GE) stock price is about to take a run up (The Street)
Facebook and Twitter are preparing IPOs (The Deal)
GM will close Saab (various)
The Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone will be sold at the UK’s largest retailer (TechCrunch)
Douglas A. McIntyre
Cheap Broadband For Everyone In America
By Douglas A. McIntyre
“A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” –Herbert Hoover, 1928.
Federal regulators plan to propose a way to get inexpensive broadband to every person in the U.S. According to several media sources, The Federal Communications Commission will offer a program for the federal government to take an activist role in expanding broadband, and may add a tax to phone bills to help fund it. Two months ago, the Berkman Center at Harvard laid out a plan for universal U.S. broadband. It said that building the necessary infrastructure of the program could cost as much as $350 billion.
Electronic Arts (ERTS): M&A And Layoffs Meet At A Crossroad
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) did something today that is almost never seen in the corporate world. It made a big acquisition and fired 1,500 of its workers, 17% of the total staff, on the same day. Read More
The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs In America
It has been nearly a year since 24/7 Wall St. did its latest edition of the Twenty Five Most Valuable Blogs. Valuations have moved up significantly since then. Advertising CPMs have improved markedly since the beginning of this year. A number of the largest blogs on our list have larger audiences than they did a year ago.
All of the blogs analyzed here are private companies. Blogs owned by larger firms are not measured. Blogs used primarily as fronts for other businesses have also been excluded. Some of the blogs on the list have raised VC money and those sums can be used as guidelines if they are disclosed. The only worthwhile value is what an acquirer will pay, so any estimate needs to take into account the value the blog may have to an outside buyer. Several blogs from earlier versions of this list were sold, among them Ars Technica and PaidContent. Some of the largest blogs based on audience measurements do not have significant revenue and are also excluded. For instance, “The Daily Beast”, a large news commentary site controlled by IACI, takes almost no advertising. In theory, it has little if any economic value at all. Read More
Media Digest 11/9/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Hurricane Ida is heading toward Gulf oil fields.
Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) will make its bid for Cadbury.
Reuters: GE (NYSE:GE) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) have agreed to an NBCU valuation.
Reuters: The IMF is considering an insurance levy on banks. Read More
Use Of The Internet Does Not Isolate People
It is only natural to think that the rising number of people who are on cellphones and the internet for hours a day would be less likely to interact with the people around them. Focusing on web surfing would seem to pull people away from their immediate surrounding.
The case for the internet as a method of social isolation had a hole poked in it by the esteemed Pew research organization. In a new survey, it found that “Some have worried that internet use limits people’s participation in their local communities, but we find that most internet activities have little or a positive relationship to local activity.” That may be counterintuitive, but it makes an odd sort of sense. Read More
Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/27/2009) (SNE)(UTX)(BRK.A)
Updated throughout the day.
Updated 10.21 AM EST: The pricing of the Ancestry.com IPO may be much too high. (BreakingViews).
Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new social search feature may not include industry leader Facebook (TechCrunch)
David Sokol interim CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) subsidiary NetJets Inc, is the top candidate to take Warren Buffett’s job (The Deal)
There could be another seven million home foreclosures in the US. (TheStreet.com)
Home prices could drop another 5% to 10% by mid-2010. (Bloomberg)
United Technologies (NYSE:UTX) has is the frontrunner in the bidding for GE’s (NYSE:GE) fire alarm and surveillance systems business. (Bloomberg).
Former AIG (NYSE:AIG) boss Hank Greenberg is actively stealing talent from his old company. (NYTimes)
NBC Universal which is 80% owned by GE, could be spun out as an IPO. (CNBC)
“The Obama administration is scheduled to announce Tuesday where it is spending $3.4 billion of stimulus money on 100 smart-grid projects in 49 states. As part of the funding, utilities are contributing $4.7 billion to the projects, making the total spending $8.1 billion. (CNET)
Nintendo may launch a large screen DSi which could be a challenge to Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Sony (NYSE:SNE) game system sales. (TechTree)
Douglas A. McIntyre
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