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McKinsey: businesses reaping benefits from Web 2.0

Sep 17, 2009 No Comments by admin

Whether you call it Web 2.0, social media, or a complete waste of time, businesses seem to like where it’s all going. A new survey of nearly 1,700 businesses by McKinsey & Company finds that using Web 2.0 technologies can lead to increased communication and productivity, more successful marketing strategies, and—surprise—even better products…

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Google FastFlip Is Latest Attack On Amazon Kindle (GOOG, AMZN)

Sep 17, 2009 No Comments by admin

What’s the point of Google’s new FastFlip reader? Not to change the way you read news on the Web — it’s too ugly and simplistic for that. But because it loads pages very fast — and requires minimal effort to navigate — it could be useful for portable devices. Specifically, tablet-like gadgets with 3G modems [...]

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Bing Is Now the Fastest Growing Search Engine

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new BingBing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10…

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Google to Buy Web Video Provider Brightcove? [RUMOR]

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

Fresh off the news that Google is buying reCAPTCHA, another major acquisition rumor has emerged. According to a tweet from Mark Glaser, Executive Editor of PBS MediaShift, “Brightcove in talks with Google about buyout in $500m to $700m range.”…

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Google Acquires reCaptcha To Power Scanning For Google Books And Google News

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments by admin

Google has acquired reCAPTCHA, an open source technology that provides CAPTCHAs to prevent spam and fraud. Captchas are those security questions you find on Web sites that require you to decipher and type words or numbers and detects whether the user is a human…

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Facebook Crosses 300 Million Users. Oh Yeah, And They Just Went Cash Flow Positive

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

Facebook has two very big pieces of news that they announced today at TechCrunch50. The first: They have crossed 300 million users worldwide now, extending their lead as the biggest social network. The second: They are now cash flow positive. Yes, from this point forward, Facebook is making money…

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Ex-Googlers Win TechCrunch50 Prize For 21st Century Yellow Pages

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

A team of ex-Google employees won the top prize at the annual TechCrunch50 startup contest. Their company, Redbeacon, is sort of a modern-day Yellow Pages. It lets you search nearby service providers — plumbers, painters, personal trainers, etc. — and schedule appointments online…

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RedBeacon Wins The Top Prize At TechCrunch50 2009

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

The 50 startup presentations are over, the judges votes are in, Michael and Jason chewed over the top contenders, and the winner of this year’s TechCrunch50 is RedBeacon. The startup aims to help consumers find local service providers such as plumbers, bakers, and contractors. As we described in our initial write-up:…

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Explaining Adobe’s Weird Omniture Acquisition (ADBE, OMTR)

Sep 16, 2009 No Comments

Yesterday Adobe announced they had reached a deal to acquire Omniture for $1.8 billion, with Adobe expecting the deal to close in the fourth quarter. While on the surface it may seem odd that Adobe would buy a company and get into the Web analytics space, if integrated correctly, Adobe has the potential to provide [...]

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Former Yahoo and AOL Ad Exec Coleman Poised to Join the Huffington Post as President

Sep 16, 2009 2 Comments

n the ongoing game of Internet exec musical chairs, Greg Coleman (pictured here), who has been a top exec at both Yahoo and AOL, is poised to become president of the Huffington Post, as well as chief revenue officer, several sources said…

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CNN Wire Launches A La Carte Store For Text Reports

Sep 16, 2009 1 Comment

If only creating a wire service was as easy as pundits blabbering about creating an alternative to AP. CNN’s nascent wire service, launched for newspapers and online, is already tinkering with its business model a few months after its launch: it has launched a text-only online store, at CNNWireStore.com, to start offering a la carte [...]

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