Hot Or Not, Market Pulls Web Interest
MSN Money drew nearly 16 million unique visitors in May 2008, a site record, showing how even the roughest of times can’t stem an interest in money.
ZipClip Makes Web To Mobile A One Click Deal
Necessity, ease of use, and free are a good combination for convincing a market to adopt your product. But Berggi CEO Babur Ozden tells Murdok his company’s new ZipClip application also "keeps you young."
Social Security Launches Online Calculator For Retirement
The Social Security Administration has launched a new online calculator on its Web site that will allow people to plan for their retirement.
Yellow Pages Dying Off In Ten Years?
AOL’s Walletpop blog has created a list of the Top 25 Things Vanishing from America. They listed “The Yellow Pages” as item number 24, along with such things as outhouses, classified ads, dial-up internet access, phone landlines, VCRs, cameras that use film, and more. I’ve written before about how print yellow pages usage is decreasing […]
Apple Leader’s Health, Earnings, Raise Concerns
The leadership of Steve Jobs helped Apple become more than an iconic computer maker, by shifting it to a hugely profitable electronics business.
Is The Blogher Conference Sexist?
To those organizers I challenge them to look in the mirror and realize that you’ve now become the same evil and sexist pigs you started out with the goal of overcoming.
eBay Meeting With Luxury Goods Manufacturers
Even if eBay could win them all (and at this point, it hasn’t) lawsuits from luxury goods manufacturers would get old after a while. So, in a surprisingly logical move, lawyers representing the auction site are going to meet with the other side.
Pew: Newspapers Circling The Wagons
The newspaper industry is at a crossroads, and a fresh report from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism confirms this beyond all doubt. What’s interesting is that industry experts have a hard time agreeing on whether the intersection is good or bad, and whether to praise or blame the Internet’s role in shaping it.
Serious Sports Fans Spend More Time Online
Enthusiastic sports fans account for 19 percent of overall online users and represent a lucrative online audience according to a new report from JupiterResearch.Since serious sports fans spend more time online, watch more online video and shop more online, sports sites need to integrate the right balance of video and social features into their destinations, the report found.
Carl Icahn Will Be Joining The Yahoo Board
Here’s an interesting twist in the Yahoo/Microsoft/Icahn love triangle–Carl Icahn and Yahoo have just kissed and made-up. Under a newly announced settlement, Carl Icahn and two of his cohorts will be elected to Yahoo’s board of directors.