On Friday, the Interactive Advertising Bureau announced that the US had reached $5.5 billion in online ad revenue for the first quarter. This was down a bit from last year, but that’s not too bad considering the state of the economy. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find other ways to advertise your business that are as cost-effective.
Google Comfortable Enough In Its Own Economic Shoes
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a busy man as you can imagine, and has probably been even busier than usual recently, now that he has been named to the transitional economic advisory board of President-Elect Barack Obama at a time when the economy needs all the help it can get.
$100 Billion Enough To Stop Google/Yahoo Ad Deal?
Movable Type: Blogs Not Social Enough
Moveable Type from Six Apart has a new incarnation out that aims to take blogging in a more social direction. As Om malik points out, blogging has always been a social form of media. On the flipside, sites like MySpace incorporate blogs into their profile pages. But where platforms like Wordpress miss the boat, this new Movable Type incorporates the ability to set-up networks into it.
Microsoft’s Earnings, Enough to Buy Yahoo
I missed Microsoft’s earnings release last week (I was on a flight back from my vacation), so here’s a look back. Microsoft’s revenue for its second quarter were up 30% to $16.37 billion, and profit was up 92% to $6.48 billion.
MySQL Not Big Enough to Offer Enterprise Support?
Jonathan has a nice post with additional explanations on the MySQL deal, seeing as one or two folks have questioned it.
Blogger Social 2008: Sometimes Great Content is Not Enough
The first thing I should say is that I was planning to write about Blogger Social 2008 anyway. You’ll see why I started with that disclaimer in a moment …
CDD: Facebook’s Digital Mea Culpa Not Enough
The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), which has filed a complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission because of privacy concerns, says CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s apology to Facebook users won’t make problems go away.
Is Google’s YouTube Antipiracy Tool Enough?
Google has finally unveiled their copyright protection system for YouTube. The reactions have been mixed.
Is Facebook Doing Enough About Perverts?
I know, you were all shocked last month when I had to break the news to you that there were perverts on the Internet—even on the hallowed (and supposedly fenced-in) “grounds” of Facebook.