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- eBay: Mapping Where It Went Wrong
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Sometimes all you need is a map to see where a company is going, or where it got on the wrong track. Take a look at the eBay EBAY acquisitions above plotted as a subway map created by the folks at MeetTheBoss. Click...
- External links 2009-09-04
- YouTube: Viral Wedding Videos Can Be Great for Advertising
- Erick Schonfeld submits: The conventional wisdom out there on Web video advertising is that most advertisers don’t want to risk being associated with user-generated videos (i.e., the vast bulk of videos on YouTube). It is only the professionally-produced stuff on portions of YouTube and Hulu and Blip.tv where...
- External links 2009-07-30
- Microsoft-Yahoo: Wall Street's Reaction Not So Positive
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Carol Bartz and Steve Ballmer are all smiles Wednesday morning with the signing of their long-awaited search deal. but the agreement isn’t going over so well on Wall Street. Shares of Yahoo YHOO took a plunge Wednesday morning on the announcement and are currently...
- External links 2009-07-29
- Google Sells Back Its Stake in AOL
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Google GOOG finally sold back its 5 percent stake in AOL to Time Warner TWX. Originally valued at $1 billion in 2005, Google ended up getting back only $283 million, including some cash distributions. There goes roughly $700 million, but Google already...
- External links 2009-07-28
- New York Times: Online Ad Revenues Continue to Plunge
- Erick Schonfeld submits: As if the New York Times NYT doesn’t have enough to worry about, with total advertising revenues down 32 percent in the second quarter, its online business is deteriorating as well. In its earnings announcement Thursday morning, the company breaks out Internet advertising revenues...
- External links 2009-07-23
- Yahoo?s Revenues Drop 13% in Second Quarter, 5% of Employees to Lose Jobs
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Yhoo Q209 Earnings Presentation Final Yahoo just released earnings for the second quarter. Total revenues dropped 13 percent to $1.5 billion. After paying partner sites traffic acquisition costs (TAC), it’s take-home revenue was $1.1 billion. Operating income fell 17 percent to $101 million, and...
- External links 2009-07-21
- Tim Armstrong Prepares AOL for a Fragmenting Web
- Erick Schonfeld submits: The days of the Web portal are long gone. Everyone knows this, especially the people who run the largest destination sites on the Web. AOL’s newest CEO, Tim Armstrong, acknowledges this fact. “We think the Web will fragment in the future,” he tells me....
- External links 2009-07-20
- Google: A Cheat Sheet for Q2 Earnings
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Google GOOG is scheduled to announce second quarter earnings on Thursday afternoon, and Citi analyst Mark Mahaney just sent out the handy cheat sheet above showing consensus estimates, as well as his own. The Street is looking for $4.05 billion in net revenues, Mahaney is predicting...
- External links 2009-07-15
- Yahoo's Flickr Turns Up the Awesome on Image Search
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Searching for photos on the Web takes way too much time. There are simply too many photos to sort through and not enough good ones. Image search is a major priority for all the big search engines (Google GOOG, Yahoo YHOO, and Bing), and...
- External links 2009-08-05
- When Amazon Bought Zappos, Clothes.com Also Came in the Box
- Erick Schonfeld submits: When Amazon AMZN paid $928 million for Zappos in July, it got a little something extra in the box: the Clothes.com domain. It turns out that Zappos bought the domain last year from Idealab for $4.9 million Bill Grossx strikes again. by Erick...
- External links 2009-08-09
- Google: Why Gmail Failed
- Erick Schonfeld submits: When Gmail went down Tuesday, it caused more than a minor panic. People, like me, who use Gmail as their primary email couldn’t get much work done. There’s nothing like an outage to make you realize how much you rely on something. by Erick...
- External links 2009-09-01
- Sony Launches Words Move Me, A Literary Clone of Twitter
- Erick Schonfeld submits: In conjunction with Tuesday’s announcement of a new wireless Sony Reader, the electronics giant also launched a literary clone of Twitter called Words Move Me. The site falls into the category of viral social marketing—there are links to the Sony SNE Reader website and...
- External links 2009-08-25
- Yahoo, Late to the Game, Adds 'Status-Casting' to Mail and Messenger
- Erick Schonfeld submits: When you are late to the game, trying to rename it doesn’t win you any points. Monday, Yahoo YHOO announced that it is finally adding basic status updates to its Mail and Messenger products, which it is calling “status-casting.” In both Yahoo Mail and...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Yahoo Hopes to Take People Search Away from Google
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz may be under the impression that Yahoo YHOO has “never been a search company,” but at its “What Matters Most” product update Monday, search was definitely front and center. One of the demos showed a new, upcoming search homepage....
- External links 2009-08-24
- MySpace Confirms iLike Acquisition
- Erick Schonfeld submits: As expected, MySpace has confirmed that it bought iLike. It is not disclosing financial terms, but our information is that it was around $20 million. by Erick Schonfeld
- External links 2009-08-19
- Yahoo BOSS Might Be Bigger Than Bing
- Erick Schonfeld submits: One of the least appreciated, but smartest, moves Yahoo YHOO has made in the past year is to launch Yahoo BOSS, its open search APIs which lets developers create their own custom search engine using Yahoo’s algorithms. We use it to power search...
- External links 2009-08-18
- MSNBC Acquires Hyperlocal News Aggregator EveryBlock
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Even though they haven’t really found a big audience yet, hyperlocal news sites are becoming a hot commodity. In June, AOL bought Patch for $7 million, and Monday MSNBC acquired EveryBlock. EveryBlock was previously funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation, which...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Microsoft Unloads Razorfish on the French
- Erick Schonfeld submits: More than two years after buying advertising network aQuantive for $6 billion, Microsoft MSFT finally unloaded the digital advertising agency that came with that deal. It sold Razorfish to French advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe for $530 million in a combination stock-and-cash transaction. ...
- External links 2009-08-10
- Google Peels Off the Beta Label from More of Its Apps
- Erick Schonfeld submits: The beta days are over at Google GOOG, at least for some of its most popular applications. As we predicted two months ago, Google is finally taking the beta label off of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Gtalk today. And it is...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Google?s Africa Strategy: Search and Trade Via SMS
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Not only does Google GOOG want to organize all the world’s information, it also wants to make all that information available to everyone in the world. For the majority of the world’s population, that means making it available on a cell phone, and not...
- External links 2009-06-29
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