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Microsoft Buys Shopping Portal Jellyfish.com

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Microsoft makes the newest purchase of the summer.  They snatched up the shopping portal, Jellyfish.com.  Jellyfish.com takes part of their profit from advertisers and offers rebates to its customers on the products they purchase.
Jellyfish.com will support Microsoft’s Live Search, just as Yahoo has Yahoo Shopping, and Google has its own version of Pay per action.  [...]

A History of Google LawSuits: Part I

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I thought it would be fun to go over a history of Google lawsuits. Google has been in business since September of 1998 and has grown into an immense virtual being. What I like to call the “Google Monster”, primed and ready to take over the world, one computer at a time.
Throughout their [...]

Google, Intel and Possibly Apple bid to Become Wireless Internet Providers

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Google and Intel are in the bidding war for sure, and Apple is strongly considering joining the fray for the 700MHz spectrum auction. The reason this is a big deal is because there is a limited amount of prime spectrum remaining, and whoever wins the contract will have the chance to offer premium wireless [...]

MSNBC says Online Retail Growth is Reaching its Plateau … I don’t Believe It

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

MSNBC ran an article last night stating that online retail growth is reaching its plateau, and by 2010 companies can expect to see growth cool off. According to their research and research from Jupiter Research, people who are already buying online will continue to do so, while those who haven’t adopted online buying habits [...]

Yahoo Purchases Blue Lithium for $3 Million, Increasing Global Ad Network

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Blue Lithium is known for their Behavioral Targeting technology and you can expect Yahoo to use and abuse Blue Lithium’s capabilities.   The goal of this acquisition is for Yahoo to expand their global reach across ad networks.
The combined network of Yahoo and Blue Lithium allows advertisers to buy large, targeted segments of users who [...]

Google Continues to Dominate the World

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Google is at it again.  This time they have bought a hefty share of a Chinese Social Network located at Tianya.cn.
China is the 2nd largest country in terms of people using the Internet, so it is no surprise to see Google attempt to conquer the far East.  Although, currently Google is not the number 1 [...]

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