Alibaba Wishes To Make Google Disappear

Now that it has absorbed Yahoo China, Jack Ma's Alibaba wants to be the top search site in China and render the whole Google versus Microsoft fight over China moot.

Getting Your Sales Channel to Follow-up On Leads

B2B marketers know getting field sales people to follow-up on sales leads is tough but getting channel partners (VARs, resellers and distributors) to follow-up and close-the-loop seems down right impossible.

Changes Blur the Scenery Along the Digital Divide

The line it is drawn the curse it is cast The slow one now will later be fast As the present now will later be past The order is rapidly fadin'. And the first one now will later be last For the times they are a-changin'. - (Bob Dylan, 1963)

CMP Media Buys Black Hat

The cutting edge of network security gets a new corporate sheen as CMP Media acquires Black Hat, and bolsters its security portfolio in doing so.

Google Adds Optimization Tool

Yesterday at PubCon Las Vegas, Matt Cutts dropped a hint that there would be a new Google service launched. That new service is an SEO tool addition to Google Sitemaps, that will SEO companies cringing as webmasters are given easy guidelines for optimization and error correction.