Seller Boycott Fails To Impress eBay
Several times in the past, eBay sellers protested changes in site policies with boycotts. Though sellers received more attention this time, they had the same result in effecting a change: zero.
Getty Images Sells For $2.4 Billion
Just a couple of weeks after Getty Images, the world’s largest stock images company, appeared to have failed to find a buyer for itself, the company announced an agreement to be sold to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC for $2.4 billion. That’s 55% more than the stock was valued on Wall Street.
French President Becomes Online Sensation
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is receiving a lot of attention online for a video in which he tells a bystander to "get lost".Sarkozy was filmed by a journalist from the newspaper Le Parisien while attending an annual farm fair in Paris on Saturday. Sarkozy went to shake a mans hand who in response said," Don’t touch me, you are soiling me." Sarkozy replied while still smiling," Get lost, dumb ass."
Google, Microsoft Called UK’s Top Business Brands
Some people are bound to find this list a little disappointing; UK companies didn’t rank either first or second among the UK’s top 500 business brands. Instead, for better or for worse, Google and Microsoft got those honors.
Bloglines Users Abandon Ship
When a company’s last press release was put out in June of 2005, it’s probably wise not to expect a quick response. Still, users of RSS reader Bloglines are disappointed (and increasingly angry) following a long outage.
Automatic Matching Feeds Google Your Budget
A beta test of a new feature for Google’s AdWords clients turns surplus budget into additional marketing opportunities for advertisers, and extra revenue for Google.
Apple TV Take 2 Might Need More Takes
What Apple needs is to branch out beyond its cultish following. The company’s done pretty well at that lately with the iPod and iPhone and all the hysterical ecstasy that followed. They’ve got something cool with this Apple TV idea, but the computer-to-TV market has been a more difficult one to break.
Has Facebook Peaked?
It’s one thing when it appears that Facebook has lost numbers in Britain. Facebook wasn’t alone. Social networking in general was down in that one country, where habits have never exactly been a mirror of the larger situation. Bebo, for example, is still relatively unknown in the States.
Oprah’s Site Benefits From Free Book
Some new Hitwise statistics have led to two takeaways. First, people follow Oprah. Second, people like free stuff. Simple enough, eh?
500 Million Downloads For Firefox
Mozilla reached a milestone recently as Firefox hit 500 million downloads. If that were people, that’d be about a twelfth of the earth, or about eight percent of everybody.