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eBay Getting Rid of Skype
Update: paidContent.org is reporting that eBay CEO John Donahoe says that the company is "still open to other offers" and that he will…
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Online-Only Newspapers Face Uphill Battle
Newspapers that make the move to online-only risk losing 75 percent of their revenue and a decline in Web traffic, according to researchers from City University in London. Their study focused on the Finnish financial newspaper Taloussanomat, which stopped its print version and went online- only in December 2007. The move was made after the paper had suffered significant losses. By going online-only the papers…
Domino’s Pizza Deals With YouTube Nightmare
Yesterday was quite a day for Domino’s Pizza’s leadership and the communication team.
YouTube A Breeding Ground For Ponzi Schemes
Google might be struggling to make money off YouTube, but pyramid schemers are apparently doing just fine. They’re doing so well, the Better Business Bureau has issued an alert warning of “little Bernie Madoffs” running all around the video site Call it user-generated scamming. . A search for “cash gifting” on YouTube brings back over 25,000 videos and, at the rate they were going last…
Google Making Changes to Search Referrals
Update: Google now says: We initially reported that Urchin Software might require a patch to handle the new URL structure, but after some additional testing, it turns out no patch is needed. Urchin can handle both the current and new URLs. Original article: Google is changing referral URLs on results pages. What up until now has looked something like this:
YouTube Symphony Orchestra Reaches Final Stages
The YouTube Symphony Orchestra project represented a neat idea: use the Internet to have musicians from all over the world perform a single piece of music. And now it's reaching the final and most interesting stages of development as a mashup's been compiled and everyone's set to perform at Carnegie Hall.
