With Michael Jackson, Internet Video Comes Of Age
Video delivered over the internet was supposed to be the next big thing in media. The problem is that internet video has been high on the list of “next big things” for years. The…
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Newest first · Page 524Another Brilliant Search Move From Microsoft: Bing To Include Tweets
Bing is arguably the best search product Microsoft (MSFT) has ever launched. It has gotten good to excellent reviews. A number of internet reseach firms show that Bing is picking up market share from…
More Data That Microsoft (MSFT) Bing Is Gaining On Yahoo! (YHOO)
Data from web research firm StatCounter confirms what other surveys have shown–Microsoft’s (MSFT) new search engine Bing is gaining ground on Yahoo! which will undermine that portal’s turnaround effort. For June, StatCounter shows 8.23%,…
Another Achilles Heel For Social Networks, Cybercrime On Facebook
Facebook is becoming one of the most dangerous places on the internet. According to Reuters, “Scammers break into accounts posing as friends of users, sending spam that directs them to websites that steal personal…
Twitter Becomes An Enemy Of Big Business
Twitter has a lot of people posing as someone they are not, a problem that plagues larger social networks MySpace and Facebook. The trend with Twitter is becoming a significant problem for big corporations. According toThe…
Yahoo! (YHOO) Brand Makeover: Lipstick On A Pig
Yahoo! (YHOO) wants to change its image as the “also-ran” search engine with incompetent management. According to All Things Digital, Yahoo! “is working on a massive plan to overhaul its brand in order to…
CEOs Hanging Around On Facebook (MSFT)(YHOO)(GOOG)
A public relations executive recently evaluated the number of Fortune 100 CEOs who had presences on social network sites including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and online information site Wikipedia. Almost none of the chief executives were…
CNN.com Keeps Its Audience Advantage Over MSNBC.com (GE)(TWX)(NYT)
What is true on the air is also true on the web. CNN.com has a larger audience that MSNBC.com. It also hold a large advantage over the largest website of any American newspaper, NYTimes.com,…
Year-To-Date Trends For CNBC.com And FoxBusiness.com
Since the beginning of the year, the audience at CNBC.com is up 10% according to Hitwise. FoxBusiness.com is off 23%. CNBC.com Foxbusiness.com Week Ending Rank Among Business Websites Market Share of Business…
The Instantaneous Collapse Of Social Network Values
The valuations of large social networks such as MySpace (NWS), Facebook, and Twitter is that a visitor has the same value as a visitor to Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL, or Ask.com (IACI). Facebook is worth…
Fox Business Still Taking On Water
Fox Business, launched in October 2007, was supposed to air content substantially different enough from rival CNBC to take some of the larger channel’s viewers or, at least, build a viewership of its own. In early…
The Postal System Becomes An Anachronism
The US Postal System, which has been dying for years due to the advent of the fax, e-mail, and overnight delivery, may finally be close to its last act. The agency lost nearly $2…
Even Google (GOOG) Pays Attention To Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing
There are a growing number of reports that Microsoft’s (MSFT) new Bing search engine is causing a little perspiration to break out on the foreheads of the people who run Google (GOOG). Early industry…
Facebook: More Programs That Don’t Make Money
Social networks, especially the largest one which are Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, continue to come up with new features that may be useful to users but are unlikely to bring in any revenue.
Microsoft (MSFT): Bing Starts To Ding Yahoo! (YHOO)
Steve Ballmer is The Man. His persistance in pursuing search engine market share may finally be paying off which could sink Yahoo!’s (YHOO) chances of being turned around under new CEO Carol Bartz. New…