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Big news in the social-media space: MSNBC has acquired Newsvine, a pioneering news community that has been somewhat eclipsed by Digg and…
A growing number of disgruntled Google users have filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission concerning a range of issues.
Imagine that someone leased space for a small sandwich shop. Then the landlord plastered signs for Jimmy John’s, Subway, and Schlotzsky’s all around the area. Not good, eh? And some eBay sellers feel that they’ve been put in a similar position.
News community site Newsvine just made an undisclosed amount of cash for its owners as MSNBC agreed to purchase it.
Divide the online advertising revenue pool into ten slices. Google devours four all by itself, to the tune of $7.5 billion in the US market so far in 2007.
“German engineering” is often a selling point in and of itself. And so I have to wonder how many times that phrase came up while eBay was in the process of acquiring ViA-Online GmbH, a German auction management software company.
