Early Friday morning it looked like Sacha Baron Cohen had done it again with his new film Brüno. With post-midnight ticket sales in the neighborhood of $1.6 million some Hollywood insiders were predicting around $50 million for the opening weekend.
UMG Reports YouTube Making Them Millions
Well, it looks like the most popular video site on the Internet is making somebody money—but it might not be Google. Universal Music Group reports that YouTube is making them “tens of millions of dollars.” Rio Caraeff, executive vice president of Universal Music Group’s eLabs and head of their digital group, told CNET:
Making Millions with LinkedIn
LinkedIn has posted a "success story" about a guy that has used the social network to help him make millions of dollars. It’s probably safe to say that LinkedIn isn’t solely responsible for this man’s success, but he had no problem providing a testimonial about how it played a part.
Iran Blocks Millions Of Web Sites
The Iranian government is currently blocking in excess of five million Web sites for hosting content that it deems as unethical and anti-Islamic.During a conference in Iran, the Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi said most of the sites were blocked because they "contained unethical content" such as pornography and anti-Islamic sentiment.
Alibaba Makes $750 Millions Vanish
The owner of Yahoo China spent three-fourths of the $1 billion it received from Yahoo last summer on research & development and other projects.
Yahoo Stream Millions For Howard Stern
Yahoo released the metrics for the Howard Stern celebration and the number came to over 4.4 million streams of live video on December 16th. Additionally, more than 214,000 watched the activities after his final day on terrestrial radio. This is the largest live entertainment webcast.
Yahoo Users Raise Millions in Donations
In the wake of the disaster in South Asia, Yahoo has seen an extraordinary level of generosity from its 325 million users worldwide.
Intelliseek Now Analyzes Content From Millions of Blogs
Buzz analytics firm expands scope of consumer-generated media (CGM) for clients seeking to protect, promote brands.
Why I’ll never make millions of dollars on the Internet…
Don’t get me wrong, I make a decent living online. I have a passion for what I do, and my hard work has paid respectable dividends, both to me, and to my visitors.
Why Large Companies Will Pay Millions To Create Something That Comes Naturally To A Small Business
You might not think of a large company as being a one-person business … yet that is precisely what many are and what many more want to be.