Google Maps Offers Real Estate Listings
Realtors have had a hard time these past six or so months; as the housing market crashed, the competition for buyers grew fierce. Now Google’s making things even more interesting by introducing a real estate search option on the main page of Google Maps.
MySpace Wins $234 Million Spam Judgment
MySpace has won a $234 million legal judgment over spam messages sent to members of the social networking site.MySpace won the judgment after spammers Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines failed to appear in court. The judgment is believed to be the largest ever awarded in a spam email case.
Google Salutes iPhone Users With New Reader Interface
Although the uninitiated might imagine that iPhone users only use their devices to listen to music and surf social networks, Google knows they can be quite literate, too. And a new version of Reader plays up to this characteristic.
Yahoo In Corporate Raider’s Crosshairs
The sale of Yahoo to Microsoft isn’t going away without a proxy fight. Billionaire Carl Icahn, the guy they made Wall Street movies about in the Eighties and had to invent the phrase "corporate raider" for, is said to have gathered up 50 million shares in Yahoo.
Street View Takes A Cue From “Cops”
Users of Google Street View will still be able to hunt for people hopping fences, losing their pants, and lying out in the sun. Users may not be able to see many faces, though, as Google’s making them disappear.
eBay To Move To PayPal Only In Australia
After negative publicity about an eBay plan to require users in Australia to use PayPal-only, its online payment system, rumors about a similar policy in the U.S. were met with a forceful denial from the company."In the U.S., we are not mulling, planning, or otherwise seriously considering a move to PayPal-only," wrote spokesman Usher Lieberman on the company’s eBay Ink blog. "There are U.S. market-specific reasons why PayPal-only is something we simply cannot do in the U.S."
Google Becoming Too Big For Itself?
Fortune magazine has one of the most comprehensive "Google’s starting to fall apart" articles, I’ve seen in a long time.
Report: Blinkx Achieves 1,000 Percent YOY Growth
Blinkx might not be up for sale; an official source denied acquisition rumors that started last week. But corporate statements don’t necessarily mean much, and new Hitwise stats portray Blinkx as a tempting target.
Yahoo Looks At Geographical Relationships
Yahoo’s taking its geo services to the next level, and along the way, the company’s offering everyone a preview. The Yahoo Internet Location Platform essentially figures out the relationships between different cities, states, and countries.
Actors And Studios In Dispute Over Online Clips
Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the major studios stalled last week after the two parties could not reach an agreement on how actors should be compensated for online clips.Studios want to distribute clips of old TV shows and movies without actors’ permission and pay them a flat fee instead of paying each actor individually. The actors union is against the measure.