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In early May, merchants will start being charged larger fees for using Google Checkout. Google is also discontinuing AdWords free transaction processing.
Last week Facebook announced that it would be rolling out changes to its home page sometime this week. That has now begun. Enthusiasm has been building greatly over the past week. Within 20 minutes of an official Facebook blog post on the launch it had already received 98 comments, most of which were pretty positive.
A Forrester report released yesterday kicked off once again the debate over paying bloggers to write about products and companies. Blogging purists, new media marketing experts, and Google’s Matt Cutts have all weighed in, indicating this is hardly a debate that will soon be put to rest.
Google has announced the launch of "Interest-based" advertising as a beta test for the company's partner sites and on YouTube. In other words, Google will be serving ads based on sites users visit.
eBay held its 2009 Analyst Day today with CEO John Donahoe speaking on the company's future. As anticipated, a great deal of focus was put on PayPal.
Google’s trust of Democrats.org, the Democrat National Party’s official website, is being abused by cybercrooks to spread spam and malware via search results. Criminals are able to achieve high ranking for their sites in the search results simply by setting up a blog at the DNC website and passing on link juice from there.
