Wii Top Seller For January
Research firm the NPD Group has released its U.S. retail sales figures for January 2008.
Software sales for the month were up by 11 percent to $611 million, hardware sales dropped by a quarter to $378 million. Overall the industry was down 6 percent for the month managing to reach $1.18 billion compared to January 2007 sales of $1.25 billion.
Yahoo Buy Spins Wheels For Microsoft Mobile
Since the PC browser search and ad experience have been dominated by Google, Microsoft’s competitive play may be on the mobile side, where no single provider dominates search.
Microsoft Juggles The Org Chart Again
Reorganization time at Microsoft shuffled the executive deck, as the company moved people up on the org chart, perhaps as early preparation for a successful Yahoo takeover.
Top 10 Ways To Raise Your Site In Google
No matter how much some people claim the SEO industry is a den of snake-oil salesmen, there are still definite ways webmasters can improve their rankings, and thus their visibility in Google’s search results.This isn’t a manipulation game—Google absolutely hates that game and will punish you for it—which is perhaps what the darker element of the SEO world sells. Good, in-bounds SEO is made up of smart, user-and-search-engine friendly techniques. Think of SEO as a performance-enhancing drug—one that won’t get you kicked out of baseball.
News Corp Being Played By Yahoo
When News Corp offered Yahoo a deal last summer – MySpace in exchange for a stake in Yahoo – Rupert Murdoch’s company received the brushoff.
New Media Ad Spending May Hit $12.6B In 2012
If a Parks Associates report is right, the next handful of years should be a great time for everyone in the "new multimedia platforms" advertising business; the report’s findings state that, in 2012, over $12.6 billion will be spent on these platforms.
EU Wants To Extend Copyrights For Musicians
The European Union’s internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy has proposed extending the copyright protection for music performers from 50 years to 95 years. "It is the performer who gives life to the composition and while most of us have no idea who wrote our favorite song – we can usually name the performer, " McCreevy said. If the copyright protection is not extended thousands of European performers who recorded in the late fifties and sixties will lose all of their royalties over the next ten years.
Chinese Freedom Fighter Slams Google
You have to love sometimes the rhetoric of freedom fighters. The US had Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale. More recently, China has university professor Guo Quan, who, after being deleted from Google’s index at the behest of the government, called Google "a servile Pekinese dog wagging its tail at the heels of the Chinese communists."Ooh. I love it when people get all revolutionary.
Spitzer, Amazon.com At Odds Over Sales Tax
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer wants all online retailers to collect tax on New York sales, even if the retailer is not based in the state.
1% Of Google Search Results Still Contain Malicious Content
Last Tuesday, Google published a report stating that web browsing and searching are increasingly becoming risky. Google for a year and a half now has been identifying web pages that infect vulnerable hosts via drive-by downloads, i.e. web pages that attempt to exploit their visitors by installing and running malware automatically.