Van Natta Out As Facebook’s COO
What’s in a title? Well, sometimes, a lot of words – I believe the most I’ve seen was 23 – but Owen Van Natta’s job at Facebook had a nice, simple name: chief operating officer. Now Van Natta’s been given the title of “chief revenue officer and vice president of operations,” and yes, by comparison, that’s neither concise nor prestigious.
Search Focuses On Fantasy Football
First off, my title may have unintentionally tricked you; this article revolves around what the Brits call “football,” but what we Americans identify as “soccer.” Sorry, NFL fans. But followers of the English Premier League have come to the right place, and it’s actually their search activity that has caused all the buzz.
eBay Imports Gumtree
Gumtree was quite “sticky” overseas – the classifieds site attracted and held a lot of attention in the UK, Ireland, Poland, New Zealand, Asia, Australia, and South Africa. Gumtree, which is owned by eBay, will now have a chance to do the same in three American cities.
HarperCollins Lets iPhone Users Read
HarperCollins said today that it would make digital book content available for the iPhone. The publisher said it would make excerpts of 14 new titles available online in an iPhone-compatible format using HarperCollins Browse Inside application.
Yahoo Local Receives Overhaul
We frequently write about global products and services, and that’s fine; national matters also get some attention. But today, we’re hitting close to home (as long as you live in the U.S.), because Yahoo Local has been overhauled.
Google Grabs 90% Of The French
We’ve balked at France’s attempts to shortcut Google in the past, down right made fun of them for it. But the latest search share numbers in the Land of Baguettes and Snarls (gimme a break, had to get at least one in there) show that Google is near to surpassing the 90 percent threshold.
Product Information? Search Comes First
Visitors to one’s online retail website have a great likelihood of starting from a page of search results, as shown by last holiday season’s activity.
AT&T Admits To More Censorship
What has become the Net Neutrality proof of concept AT&T hoped wouldn’t come about – the censoring of a band with a cult following – is now no longer an isolated incident.
Mobile Social Network Users Few, Far Between
Social networking is here to stay, but a new M:Metrics study proves that mobile social networking is far from mainstream; in America, which leads the world in this respect, only around 3.5 percent of mobile users bother to access social networks with their cell phones.
Education Popular Topic With Online Teens
Ninety-six percent of U.S. teens and tweens with online access use social networking functions, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging and visit online communities such as Facebook and MySpace according to new study by the National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates.