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EyePods And EarBuds Make For Weird Future
The future is going to be funny looking. We walk out of men’s rooms now shaking our heads at the guy who…
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eBay Adds Half.com Inventory
eBay announced today that starting in early May, inventory from Half.com will become available through eBay.com. The company says it is giving sellers an advance warning 60 days notice. This could be a move to get people paying attention to the company's other properties as eBay.com continues to be heavily criticized. They also recently announced more focus on their PayPal property.
Who Will Manage Your Online Life When You Die?
A new service is launching in April with the goal of solving the problem of what happens to your online accounts after you die. The service, Legacy Locker, acts as an online safety deposit box that allows people to store information online and allow beneficiaries to access content when a person dies.
Yahoo More Popular Than Google In Japan
In January, 6.8 billion searches were done in Japan, representing a 9 percent increase compared to a year ago and the highest monthly search volume on record. Yahoo sites took the top spot in search with 3.5 billion searches during the month, up from 13 percent from the previous year, followed by Google sites with 2.6 billion searches (up 5%) and Rakuten with 153 million…
Economic Woes May Move Google To Sit On Its Money
It’s hard to imagine the death of search as we know it, but search is changing as we speak, and unless Google finds some flexibility, the company will be at the forefront of innovation no longer. The dent in Google’s armor comes from rather surprising directions, not from Microsoft or Yahoo—both with their own rigid corporate paralysis—but from Twitter and Facebook, where users create their…
OPA To Introduce New Online Ads
The Online Publishers Association (OPA) announced Tuesday a new initiative aimed at boosting creative advertising on the Internet that meets the needs of marketers by better integrating their messages. Starting in July, online publishers including ESPN, Forbes.com, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, will start using one of three new ad units that are larger in size than traditional online…
