NBC understands that the future of television may have less to do with TV’s. As a result, the company has made a move into the mobile ad space by investing in the mobile ad network Greystripe. The funding is said to have been made to assist the sales team headquartered in New York in selling more ads across the 1,000 mobile apps and games on over 1,400 devices that Greystripe can provide.
Wolfram Alpha Provides Financial Answers Based on Xignite Info
Xignite, which provides global financial market data, is working with Wolfram Alpha, so that Wolfram Alpha users can get such data when performing a query.
Google Provides Tool for Speeding Up Web Pages
Last month Google spoke about an initiative it was kicking off to call upon webmasters to help make the web faster. Larry Page once said he envisioned a web that could be surfed as easily as flipping through the pages of a magazine. This initiative is kind of an extension of that way of thinking.
Yahoo Provides Means for “Easy” Mobile Site Creation
Earlier this year Yahoo announced that the Yahoo Blueprint Platform was being extended from several hundred mobile devices in several thousand. Now the company has opened it up to third party developers.
The BluePrint is a platform on which developers can create mobile websites. It uses simple XML, and is the same technology Yahoo used to build oneSearch and the Yahoo.com mobile home page.
Ask Provides Sitelinks in SERPs Too
Ask is expanding its Ask Domain Nav product, which has been rolling out in phases since the end of last year, when it began beta testing the domain navigation product.
It’s very similar to what Google has been doing, and has incidentally also expanded upon recently. Last week, Google announced it was adding sitelinks for more search results. Here are screenshots of both Ask’s and Google’s versions:
ExecTweets Provides Revenue To Twitter
Well, Twitter is making more noise by getting Microsoft to spend money with them for a sponsored page called ExecTweets according to Peter Kafka at All Things Digital.
Google Provides Some AdSense Filtering Tips
Due to an increased show of interest from AdSense publishers in filtering ads, Arlene Lee of AdSense Publisher Support discussed a couple of tools at the Inside AdSense Blog. Competitive Ad Filter
Google Provides Valuable Information On Webserving Techniques
At the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Google has released some valuable information about webserving techniques, especially related to Googlebot.
Google Provides Help For the Help-Seekers
Isn’t it always fun stumbling across some new feature to enhance your overall Google Experience? Just the little things that can add so much convenience to your daily web use like the definition or movies web search features.
Yahoo Provides Ad Tips
This isn’t a story about acquisitions or stock prices, but Yahoo’s $37 billion market cap seems like a relevant point – the company can afford some awesome advertising people. And one employee has now outlined a handful of ways to make good ads.