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Top 10 Reasons why 95% of People Don’t Make Money Online

Friday, August 17th, 2007

10.  Your Fisher Price Learning Lessons computer isn’t fast enough to connect to the Internet
9.  All you are able to do is write about yourself … except you’re not famous and nobody is going to listen to you talk about yourself
8.  Bought one to many E-Books and blew your advertising budget
7.  Hired a company to [...]

MicroSoft Fighting Google’s Summer Acquisition

Friday, August 17th, 2007

MicroSoft is not happy with Google acquiring DoubleClick earlier this summer. Patton Boggs LLC of Washington has been hired by MicroSoft and has three full time workers on the case. MicroSoft is on the look out for anything that will void this sale.
It appears that other companies have come in to the defense [...]

MicroSoft and aQuantive - The Merging of Two Companies

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

aQuantive was purchased for $6 billion, and with that price tag you would assume that MicroSoft has some major plans for the online advertising giant. Former CEO of aQuantive, Brian McAndrews is now the head of the Advertising department for MicroSoft.
McAndrews team consisting of 2600 former aQuantive employees, plus 400 MicroSoft employees will run [...]

Should the WSJ Cancel Subscription Fees?

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Free Subscriptions = More Advertising $$$
The soon to be owner of the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, claims that the WSJ is missing out on a potential avalanche of advertising dollars because of their membership fees.  The online advertising bubble continues to swell from $17 billion this year to nearly $30 billion in 2011.
Web surfers [...]

Online Companies Sold at Record Rate

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Web Content Management and Web Commerce Management are the most active areas in acquisitions for marketing technology through the first half of 2007.
Marketing service Companies were sold to investors for a total of $30.9 billion.  Here are some of the major deals of 2007:

Blackstone’s acquisition of Alliance Data for $7.9 billion
Silver Lake and ValueAct Capital [...]

New Amazon Checkout Service: Amazon Flexible Payments Service

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

A new service comparable to Google Checkout and Paypal Payment Services is being released by Amazon.  Amazon Flexible Payments Service is starting out considerably behind the likes of Paypal and Google Checkout, but expects to compete head on with the giant payment services a few years down the road.  The new service is designed to [...]

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