WebTrends CMO Departs
Nov 1st I reported about the management shakeup at Webtrends. The I did a follow-up after talking to several employees of Webtrends regarding these changes.
U.S. Video Game Sales Hit $1.1 Billion
Market research firm NPD is reporting that U.S. sales of video game hardware and software increased 73 percent in October.
Total sales reached $1.1 billion, compared with $643 million a year earlier. The Nintendo Wii console moved back into the top spot as the best selling console. Nintendo sold 519,000 Wiis, Microsoft sold 366,000 Xbox 360 consoles and Sony sold 121,000 of its PlayStation 3 consoles.
Salesforce Signs “Largest Deal Ever”
Citigroup and Salesforce.com are both big companies, and a new deal between them isn’t insignificant, either – Citigroup chose Salesforce to provide software to 30,000 financial advisors.
More PageRank Carnage
I have been receiving emails and comments about yet another PageRank downturn for multiple sites.
Andrew Ooi has compiled a short list of Malaysian sites, many were as much as a PR5 previously, and currently show a PageRank of zero (a white bar)
Examples include:-
Colleen’s Simple Kind of Life and 5xmom
The numbers seem to be stable across multiple data centers
Google Ready To Bid For Wireless, Maybe
Lots of stories have swirled over the question of will they or won’t they bid in the FCC’s 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, but Google now looks like a lock to pony up some cash.
Writers Ding Viacom Over Google Lawsuit
Even though Hollywood executives claim this Internet thing is too new for them to figure out how much they can cut out of it for writers, the scribes pointed out Viacom seems to have an idea.
Shoppers Look To Black Friday Sites For Deals
People who are planning to shop on the day after Thanksgiving or Black Friday are looking online at Black Friday Web sites that feature advanced copies of retailer’s discounts.
Is Hillary Abandoning Net Neutrality?
Unfortunately, Net Neutrality won’t be a make-or-break campaign issue, even if it should be. For most voters, it’s a fairly heady concept, perhaps so difficult supporters worry frontrunner Hillary Clinton is backing away from it altogether.
No Non-Microsoft Love For Facebook
We usually write about events: acquisitions, hirings, firings, and whatnot. There’s a sort of non-event that’s hard to ignore, however, and that’s how few companies have been willing to back up Microsoft’s bet on a $15 billion Facebook.
Will Yahoo Mail & iGoogle Become Social Networks?
Yahoo has long realized that their strength laid in their already-strong web properties: their portal and their email service.