Articles tagged with: ceo
AOL buys SocialThing
SocialThing, a lifestreaming/social aggregation site, has been acquired by AOL. We currently have no information about the final price of the acquisition, but given that SocialThing was still in private beta, we assume that it …
ValueClick’s “weak” financial results
On July 17, ValueClick provided lower revenue guidance of $163M to $164M and EPS guidance of 17c to 18c. The company also lowered its 2008 revenue guidance to a range of $655M to $675M, and …
Domain brandjacking continue to abuse online brands
Brandjackers continue to abuse online brands using an increasing range of tactics, demonstrates brand protection firm MarkMonitor in its latest report. MarkMonitor’s latest Brandjacking Index has been released and the results show that while some …
Online shopping growth for UK consumers
The British are heading online to shop in ever increasing numbers, according to new figures from IMRG/Capgemini. Twenty percent of U.K. consumers now do their shopping on the Internet. Almost $54 billion was spent by …
Me.dium Social Search Engine is testing the water.
Social network Me.dium is putting the power of its people into a new social search system. The search tool will combine the new Yahoo Search BOSS platform with results collected from Me.dium social sidebars and …
Yang exit would show Yahoo! is serious about a deal
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) was quick to shoot down unsubstantiated rumors that CEO Jerry Yang was stepping down on Wednesday. It wasn’t the first time such reports have cropped up, and it probably won’t be the …
New Buzz for Netvibes
Personalized home page service Netvibes has quietly rolled out a new social feature called Buzz. The Buzz section tracks what links are getting starred the most throughout Netvibes network of home pages.
Netvibes users can star …
EMI Music Sues Hi5, VideoEgg
EMI Music filed a lawsuit alleging “massive and blatant” copyright infringement by Hi5, VideoEgg and ten John Doe defendants to be named later. The core of the suit is over copyrighted EMI content that appears …
Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset
VentureBeat is reporting Microsoft is very close to buy the semantic search engine Powerset. The purchase price is rumored to be slightly more than $100 million. An announcement is expected next month. Powerset, of San …
Domain Naming Rules are getting relaxed
The group controlling Internet domain names may soon decide whether to relax naming rules and potentially open up a virtual domain name gold rush.
Paul Twomey is president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned …
SearchMe Gets Serious About Search Relevance
New Sequoia-backed visual search engine SearchMe launched a bunch of new features today - new video and image search engines as well as a new visual bookmarking tool called stacks.
The main new feature, stacks, allows …
