network
Earnings reports for both Google and Microsoft disappointed analysts today sending shares tumbling. In after-hours trading, Google is seeing the worse end…
Rumors had floated for weeks Google was negotiating to buy Digg.com for purposes of enhancing Google News. But it looks like Google is already integrating Digg-like features in a surprisingly open round of testing in the search results. With Google's slate of engineers, one wonders why they would buy a site if they could replicate the same idea. Imagine results created by users voting them…
Walk Score, a site that ranks the walkability of 2,508 neighborhoods in the 40 largest cities in the U.S., has released its rankings of the top most walkable cities.Walk Score says the most walkable city in America is San Francisco, scoring an 86 out of a possible 100. Other cities topping the list include New York City with a score of 83 and Boston with…
eBay's second-quarter earning report was respectable, all in all, with increases occurring in most measurable categories. Many of those increases didn't meet investors' expectations, though, and the company seems to have adopted a cautious outlook for the future.
For every new dollar spent on search marketing, Google grabs $1.10. Probably the last time you heard a number like that, it was from a basketball coach at half-time encouraging you to give the mythical one hundred and ten percent. How does that happen in real numbers? Looks like Google takes a little from Yahoo and Microsoft.
Starting today TiVo will offer its subscribers access to YouTube videos on their television sets through their broadband TiVo boxes.TiVo's deal with YouTube is the company's first for streaming online content. TiVo does have partnerships with 60 online sites that offer content. Users will not be able to store YouTube videos, but they will be able to view them and bookmark them to watch later.
