Google’s top executives have been selling their holdings non-stop for almost three and a half years, a trend that ultimately gained some attention from the market.
Live Search Webmaster Tools Finally Available
Microsoft has finally made its Live Search Webmaster Tools available to all site owners, webmasters and SEO professionals.
After a brief private beta, the Live Search Webmaster Center aims to help website professionals improve their results in the MSN and Live.com Search Engines.
Red Hat and Hyperic Finally Made Me Happy
I previously questioned Red Hat’s apparent lack of love for Hyperic. Today, Stacey Schneider, Senior Director of Marketing at Hyperic, tipped me off to a joint Hyperic & Red Hat announcement.
Could Google Finally Deliver On Old AOL Promises?
Two years ago next month, Google bought five percent of AOL for a billion dollars. Yeah, you might have forgotten that, but it was a really big deal at the time.
While Google’s main motivation was to keep being the search technology for fifth-place AOL Search, there was a lot of talk on both sides about the two companies working together. The big get, mentioned right in the press release: Google Talk and AOL Instant Messenger integration.
Finally Someone Admits Facebook Has a Problem
When you have nagging doubts about the business model of Facebook, professionally it’s often not a good idea to voice them.
Google Finally Announcing Cell Phone Project Today
UPDATE: The announcement is now confirmed, please see below.
MySpace, Sony BMG (Finally) Make Deal
Thanks to a new deal between MySpace and Sony BMG, users of the social network should gain special access to streaming music videos, and other odds and ends, including limited audio content, may also become available.
YouTube Finally Gains Anti-Piracy Tool
Google has faced a lengthy stream of complaints and a lawsuit from Viacom over the continued uploading of copyrighted videos by YouTube users. The debut of their long-awaited content ID tool could help its relationship with Hollywood.
Google (Finally) Responds to Directory Question
The recent slap a handful of directories experienced was unaccompanied by an explanation from Google, though the general consensus (maybe) was that Google’s webspam team was sending a message. Weeks later, Murdok has wrangled a response from Google’s Webmaster Central team – sort of.
Joost Finally Launches – Will Anybody Care?
So Joost says that it is now finally open to the public (Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee and Kara Swisher at BoomTown have the details, including interviews with CEO Mike Volpi), after a long beta program that started as invitation-only.