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Gmail Adds Drunk Sitter Feature
It’s not April 1, so they must be serious. Google has introduced a new feature to Gmail called Mail Goggles, designed to…
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Yahoo AOL Merger Rumors Resurface
Those old Yahoo-AOL rumors are persistent, if anything. Surfacing again are details related to a deal that could thwart a Microsoft takeover forever. But at the same time, it would seem damaging to an already heavily-scrutinized search ad deal with Google.
Salad Days Over In The Valley
Things aren’t looking so good in Silicon Valley these days. As the US economy adjusts to recession, funding for ventures is down, stock prices are falling, and online tabloids have to let go even their decadent Valley prostitution reporters.
MySpace, Facebook Top Mobile Social Networks
Close to half (46%) of those who use social networks have visited a social network by using their mobile phone, according to ABI Research.The majority (70%) have visited MySpace and another 67 percent have visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15 percent mobile adoption.
Matt Cutts, Hitwise Check In On Google Chrome
Like its metallic namesake, Google's browser named Chrome attracted a lot of attention at first, then seemed to lose its shine and fall out of favor. Still, Hitwise found a surprising side effect of Chrome's introduction, and Matt Cutts believes that it's solid in most fundamental senses.
SMX East: The iPhone’s Effect On Search
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are all at very different stages of corporate life, and often don't focus on the same things. All of the companies have expressed an interest in the mobile market, however, and so as marketers consider matching this, a session at SMX East was called "Search and the iPhone."
