Google Stock Downgraded
So much for the "buy and hold" approach to investing, at least where Google and one analyst is concerned. It might be time to sell and get some cash, instead, as ThinkEquity’s William Morrison has downgraded the search giant’s stock from "accumulate" to "source of funds."
Skype Making Mobile Deals
Nokia and eBay-owned VoIP service Skype announced a deal today. Skype will be integrated into Nokia devices, starting with the N97 series.
Experts Predict Doom For New Walled Gardens
Wired.com loudly reminded everyone a little over a week ago about ESPN’s deal with specific ISPs to license ESPN360 content.
AOL
AOL’s publishing division MediaGlow said its sites saw record growth in January, with page views up 47 percent year-over-year to reach 7 billion and total minutes increasing 39 percent to 4.9 million.
AOL says its redesigned homepage grew 5 percent in page views, 12 percent in unique visitors, a record 33 percent in total minutes and 6 percent in total visits year-over-year.
Report: Yahoo Web Analytics Beats Google in Key Areas
CMS Watch, which evaluates and reports on content-related technologies, has issued a report saying that Yahoo Web Analytics (formerly IndexTools) is better than Google Analytics in a number of key areas.
Too Much Content Bad for Online Advertising?
Could the enormous amount of content on the web be hurting online advertising revenue? That is exactly what is happening according to the Wall Street Journal.
The largest contributor to this is probably user-generated content. With everyone and their mother pushing out content (like the incredible number of videos of some guy playing guitar in his room on YouTube) with incredible frequency, the market is becoming saturated.
Panel Of Experts List Top 30 Innovations Of The Past 30 Years
To celebrate their three decades on the air, PBS’ Nightly Business Report teamed up with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
Friday the 13th Sees Facebook Hit 175M Active Users
Some of us measure our popularity in the number of Facebook friends we have. Facebook measures its popularity in the number of “active users” it has—and that number hit 175,000,000 on Friday the 13th, according to a Tweet from Dave Morin of Facebook.
comScore Gives Google Maps January Win
Don’t be surprised if members of the Google Maps team start to favor comScore over competing traffic-monitoring companies. comScore may have just helped them secure some bonuses by putting Google Maps ahead of MapQuest in terms of unique visitors.
Google Penalizes Itself
Go ahead and laugh, because it is funny. Google Japan’s probably too embarrassed to laugh, though, and someone somewhere is likely to resemble the spittle-drenched apologist from the movie Gung Ho.
Google Japan, according to its apology, was apparently unaware of the company’s own terms of service. Paying a Japanese pay-per-post promotion company to pimp its new Hot Keywords blog widget caused the website to be busted down from PR 9 to PR 5.