Amazon In eBook Deal With Best Selling Author
Amazon.com said today it would start offering electronic versions of books by business author Stephen Covey exclusively in its Kindle Store.
Electronic versions of Stephen Covey’s best-selling books, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and "Principle-Centered Leadership" are available in the Kindle Store for $7.99. The e-books are being published through RosettaBooks.
MySpace May Be After Flixster
Over the past several months, MySpace has become much more formidable thanks to some new features, a deal with a record label, and a couple of acquisitions. It looks like the growth spurt may not be over, either, as a report’s indicated that MySpace is now interested in getting to know Flixster.
Facebook URL Shortener Makes Appearance
Long URLs cut into character limits, are difficult to remember, and simply look awkward. Quite a little industry has sprung up in response. Only it looks like a major player is now entering the game, as a URL shortener created by Facebook has been sighted.
Online Holiday Shipping Deadline Looms
Most holiday shipping offers are set to expire on or before December 18, according to a new study by Shop.org and BIGresearch.
Nearly two thirds (62.3%) of retailers’ shipping deadlines for Christmas delivery will fall on or before December 18, with 34 percent of shipping deadlines occurring on December 18 itself.
Many of the busiest online shopping days of the year are set to take place this week as shoppers go online to make holiday purchases in order to meet impending shipping deadlines.
Google Now Has Its Own URL Shortener
Google made a couple of announcements today that actually combined for perhaps a more interesting announcement than either of them as stand-alone news items.
A&E Television Becomes Google TV Ads Partner
An advertising program that gives marketers access to little or no popular content isn’t worth much. Fortunately for Google, Google TV Ads is moving further and further in the opposite direction, and today, an announcement concerning yet another well-known network was made.
Mark Zuckerberg Is Hesitant Going Fully ‘Public’ With His Facebook Profile
Mark Zuckerberg and I aren’t Facebook friends. That’s cool; I don’t know him. Until recently, all I could see of his profile was his picture, networks and friend list. But this morning, either the Facebook CEO had decided that’s what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, or even he didn’t know what the new privacy settings changed.
AOL Might Be Looking To Sell ICQ
AOL continues to travel into the brave new world that it is venturing into as the lines have been cut that once attached it to TimeWarner. Of course, there will be a lot of scrutiny which often leads to criticisms but that’s just part of doing business.
TVGuide.com Taps PubMatic To Boost Ad Revenue
TVGuide.com has tapped ad firm PubMatic in an effort to boost its advertising revenue.
"PubMatic has significantly decreased the operational burden of managing multiple ad networks and simultaneously helped us eliminate inefficiencies in our remnant advertising pricing," said Ian Wallin, Vice President, Online Ad Sales, TVGuide.com. "We’ve enjoyed working with them."
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