Regulators said no to the Google/Yahoo advertising deal. Yahoo now finds itself in a difficult position. If the ad merger had gone through, Yahoo would have plenty of extra money to be able to move forward with their business plans, however with the lose of that cash and the decline in the economy Yahoo finds [...]
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Forecast for Microsoft is cloudy with a chance of SaaS. Bad puns aside, Microsoft unleashed a barrage of news this week chief among them is Azure, Windows 7, and moving Office to SaaS (the aptly named Office 14).
Details on Office 14 are sketchy at the moment, but during the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft declared that [...]
Telecommuting has a number of strengths. For the employee it gives a comfortable atmosphere to work in, saves on gas, and the headaches of commuting with many self-motivated types. For the company, it reduces the need for office space and supplies, increases employee happiness and can lead to increased productivity. However, telecommuting has a fatal [...]
According to some extremely long and painstaking research, I have found 2004 to be the pinnacle of Web Hosting. If you use Google Trends you would probably say that 2004 was the dot com bubble burst for Web hosting.
Search on any web hosting related term and you will see a huge spike in 2004. As [...]
Social marketing can be a very fickle fiend. When a company decides to advertise all it takes is a simple plan, build the message, select the medium, craft the pitch, then let it rip. But how do companies go about making something viral?
Viral messages are those messages that are so different, so amazing, or so [...]
Early in the morning, red lights go off and the network administrator once again has to address the problem of a server in the throes of death. An onslaught of terminated connections assaults the web site as the admin desperately tries to bring things back online.
Although this type of thing happens to a lot of [...]
Interesting to note that this time of season seems to be filled with web sites where the powers that be have decided its a great time for a redesign. Unfortunately, it also seems to be a time where the users are screaming bloody murder and protesting the companies to change everything back the way it [...]
The Gphones are here and already major players in the industry such as Microsoft, Apple, and RIM are blowing them off. Didn’t we do this dance before?
I can understand RIM’s point of view more than Microsoft. RIM has never had to face-off against Google and although the battles of Google versus every market they have [...]
With the EU looking to investigate the use of Google Adwords on Yahoo’s network in US and Canada the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) has also presented the disagreements of various advertisers to the EU.
Although the deal would be isolated to the US and Canada, advertisers say it will have a global impact.
“We feel this [...]