AT&T iPhone Google Deal Pits Apple Against Blackberry
Pitting Apple against Blackberry, AT&T will offer a corporate plan for iPhone users, Engadget reported today. The iPhone Google AT&T alliance made news at MacWorld with the launch of new Google apps and features for the iPhone. Today’s announcement, though, may be the biggest search engine industry news to come out of MacWorld. If the [...]
Update: 1,500 to 2,500 Yahoo Layoffs Confirmed in Writing?
Yahoo may have taken a Sanford C. Bernstein analyst recommendation to heart — or heartless — depending on whether you’re an activist investor or Yahoo employee. This weekend, Former Wall St. Analyst Henry Blodget reports Yahoo has a hit list of 1,500 to 2,500 employees targeted for layoffs by division heads, at the behest of [...]
Yahoo Canada Sets Sail With Canoe
Yahoo Canada has just entered a strategic alliance with another company, and the company, in typical press release-ese, calls itself "a leading local and national interactive media provider of news, entertainment and services." Yet in what has to be an example of Canadian humor, the company’s name is Canoe. read more More: continued here yahoo [...]
Google Inks PPC Deal with ReachLocal for SMBs
Google’s local reach rarely exceeds its grasp. Google signed a new partner that raises the stakes in local search and puts IYPs on alert. ReachLocal, a provider of local online marketing solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB), will announce a strategic alliance with Google today to become an authorized reseller of Google’s AdWords PPC [...]
Google, ReachLocal Fashion Strategic Alliance
A recent round of funding netted $55.2 million for ReachLocal. A new strategic alliance is pretty important, too, however, as the company just became an Authorized AdWords Reseller. read more More: continued here google reachlocal fashion strategic alliance
Google Mobile Search G-Force: Android Trojan Horse?
Google Android software stack: Google’s gift to the telcos. Or Trojan Horse? Adam Soroca, GM of Jumptap, sees dangers in mobile operators inviting Google inside their castle walls. With Sprint sprinting to join the Open Handset Alliance and T-mobile mobilizing to ride the Android wave, who will own the valuable search real estate on mobile [...]
Humbled eBay Joins Yahoo In Japan
A new partnership between eBay and Yahoo Japan returns the online auctioneer to a country where Yahoo dominates the Internet landscape.Five years ago, eBay left Japan, unable to breach Yahoo’s stranglehold on the national Internet user community. The return of eBay to Japan via an agreement with Yahoo fills in a gap in eBay’s international [...]
Kaango Enchants Two Yahoo HotJobs Partners
Although Hearst Corp and MediaNews Group are linchpins in Yahoo’s newspaper/online classified alliance, the two publishers have made an investment in online classified ad provider Kaango. The newspaper industry has always been more interested in keeping money in-house rather than sharing even a little with others. Publishers have big egos, and depending on someone else [...]
Verizon Changes Heart, Opens Up
Verizon reversed itself today by announcing the company will open its network to wireless devices, software, and applications not offered by the company. This comes just two months after the company sued the federal government to block openness requirements for the winner of the 700 MHz band of wireless spectrum. A change of heart? Maybe. [...]
Open Source vs. Walled Gardens
Open vs. Walled – let the best win. Recently in Boston, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, was pushing a theme that is dear to many of us. The Mobile Web should grow with open standards. The Walled Garden approach should be abandoned. The mobile Internet needs to be fully and completely [...]
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