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Ads Quality concerns any and every marketer who's the least bit interested in his ads' positions and prices, and Google recently complicated…
Alright, my first prediction for 2009: Yahoo gets carved up like a Christmas goose. No more corporate pussyfooting, no more billionaire shouting matches, just the stealthy, calculated approach toward the crippled wheezing of the would-be carrion. Soon it will all be over in a rush of feathers and blood.
Jon Miller knows a few things about Internet companies and large amounts of money; he was the CEO of AOL for around four years, and is a founding partner of the Velocity Interactive Group investment firm. So try to at least not fall out of your chair laughing when we say he might attempt to buy Yahoo.
A new study by JupiterResearch, a Forrester Research company, predicts that digital music will grow from the current 18% to 41% of total sales in 5 years. Researchers credited stores like Amazon and the transition to mp3's which make downloads portable for some of the increase.
On Black Friday, Microsoft Live Search along with HP promised a 40% refund on items purchased in HP's online store. The only problem was that the site for what was called Microsoft Live Search Cashback experienced an outage and then started delivering 3% refunds instead of 40%. Obviously, there were some unhappy campers as a result.
Marketers, young men, and YouTube's many bikini-clad seductresses are about to get an unpleasant surprise. As part of what appears to be a crackdown on both sexual content and more general attempts to mislead users, the video-sharing site is pushing the pretty ladies off some of its most popular pages.
