Jul 29

Just when I thought it was safe to go outside, a new Google killer has been reported to be on the loose. Monday morning, start-up search engine cuil.com was launched, accompanied by a rapid fire of cheerleading, speculation and, ultimately, ridicule. Search experts around the globe threw five to 10 queries at the engine before [...]

Jul 28

Amazon has filed a lawsuit in New York contesting a controversial new state law requiring some online retailers to collect sales tax on purchases shipped to New York’s residents, even if they have no offices or employees there. The e-commerce giant filed its challenge to the law in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan, seeking [...]

Jul 28

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking feedback on a plan to provide free Internet access throughout the country with a new spectrum auction, the agency said Friday. Under the proposed rules, the winning bidder for the new spectrum would have to filter out pornography and other inappropriate content.
It would also carry an open-access requirement, so [...]

Jul 23

How to make money with AdSense is one of the most popular topics in Internet marketing forums and the subject of many books and special reports. Its popularity isn’t surprising given the extensive coverage of AdSense in mainstream newspapers and magazines as well as the program’s importance in driving Google’s every-growing advertising revenues. Website and [...]

Jul 23

In Asia, New Internet Marketing Experts In recent years, Asia has developed to become one of the foremost internet marketing boom areas, particularly in Singapore and Malaysia. As more and more events take off in this part of the world, outstanding internet marketers are starting to blaze the trail and offer marketers in the USA, [...]

Jul 23

Yahoo on Tuesday posted a nearly 19 percent fall in net profit, and net revenue short of lowered Wall Street expectations, as it faced a weakening economy and the distraction of Microsoft pursuit. Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen told Reuters in an interview the company was not changing its financial view for 2008, despite an [...]

Jul 22

Back in the early 1990s, with the rise of talk radio, conservative commentators derisively dubbed newspapers, magazines and broadcast television as the “mainstream media.” More recently, with the run-up to the Iraq war, liberal bloggers joined in, abbreviating the term to MSM. But now the Internet has overtaken most newspapers and broadcasts as a source [...]

Jul 17

Shares of Microsoft Corp. dropped more than 6% in after-hours trading after the software giant posted a fiscal fourth-quarter profit that fell short of Wall Street’s estimates as it forecast lower-than-expected revenue for the following quarter. Net income rose 42% from year ago results to $4.3 billion, or 46 cents per share. Analysts polled by [...]

Jul 16

Gannett Co., the nation’s largest newspaper publisher, on Wednesday reported a 36% drop in second-quarter earnings as the newspaper industry’s woes caused a sharp decline in revenue. Shares plunged more than 12%. The profit of $233 million, or $1.02 per share, compared with a $366 million, or $1.56 per-share profit in the year-ago quarter. The [...]

Jul 16

Wall Street posted strong gains Thursday for the second session in a row. Investors cheered a string of large oil price declines and welcomed more encouraging earnings results from the financial sector. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) gained 207 points to rise 1.9% on the day. The big boost followed Wednesday’s gain of 277 [...]