Archive for October 11th, 2007
eBay Hops on Social Network Money Train
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Despite lingering woes from its troubled Skype integration, eBay is again hoping to capitalize on a hot online trend. This time, the target is social networking, with the company today unveiling a new area of its site called eBay Neighborhoods.
Like the auction giant’s earlier purchase of Skype — seen as an attempt to integrate the [...]
Good news for Yahoo!
Thursday, October 11th, 2007When Yahoo! makes news these days, it’s usually not good news. But today there’s a bright spot for the portal, which has managed to capture the No. 1 spot for internet news, ahead of rival Google.
According to comScore, Yahoo reaches 50 million people per month between its news, finance and sports channels. Although TV still [...]
Google to show YouTube videos on other Web sites
Thursday, October 11th, 2007October 09, 2007 (Computerworld) — Google Inc.’s AdSense is offering Web publishers who participate in the program the ability to start displaying ad-supported video clips from Google’s YouTube on their sites.
Google sees the new program as a win for all involved.
The program allows advertisers to distribute their video-based ads across the AdSense [...]
10 Holiday Tactics to Improve Sales in 10 Weeks
Thursday, October 11th, 2007It’s the 10th day of the 10th month, so it’s only appropriate that today we outline 10 tactics aimed at helping you increase holiday sales by 10 percent in 10 weeks. The report, issued by MarketLive and the e-tailing group, is organized as a holiday countdown calendar that will guide e-tailers through steps they need [...]