Mark Whittaker | September 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Google Blog just announced the acquisition by Google of ReCaptcha, an optical character recognition company. If you've ever tried to post, comment or subscribe to...
Sharon Hill | September 16, 2009 | Marketplaces
The winner of this year’s TechCrunch50 Best-in-Show Award is Redbeacon, a Web site aimed at matching consumers with small business service providers such as...
Shannon Kinney | September 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
There is significant debate within the newspaper industry, as well as internally at many newspapers, about putting all or part of the Web site behind a pay wall....
Shannon Kinney | September 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Tom Caywood likes shaking things up, he always has. From his tenure in Lexington and then San Jose for Knight Ridder Digital to his days in Dallas for Belo, Tom...
Mark Whittaker | September 15, 2009 | Automotive
New online automotive firm Mota Motors of Venice, Calif. rolled out is beta site at Tech50 in San Francisco. Partnered with AutoTrader.com, its mission is to...
Peter M. Zollman | September 15, 2009 | Automotive
Australian auto classifieds provider, Carsales.com, made a spectacular debut on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) last week in the country’s first major...
Mark Whittaker | September 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Vivox, provider of voice services for online games and virtual worlds, just announced its Vivox Labs initiative for new Web mashups via voice. Its first two...
AIM Group | September 15, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
Adicio Inc. today announced recent launches of a variety of new online classifieds sites for clients on their real estate, careers and motors platforms. New real...
AIM Group | September 15, 2009 | Marketplaces
The region Rhein-Main in Germany has a new classifieds portal — just weeks after regional classifieds portal Rheinmainclick.de had announced it could not...
Mark Whittaker | September 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Michael Wise, former product manager for AutoTrader.com and then The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, is now developing business for start-up Visiture. His focus,...
Steve | September 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Google rolled out its experimental Fast Flip service on Monday. The service, which is based on Google News, lets users view articles from publishers with a...
Mark Whittaker | September 15, 2009 | Marketplaces
Recently named by Business Week as one of America’s Most Promising Startups, ReTel Technologies offers electronic grocery coupons. via a postcard-size gadget...
Mark Whittaker | September 15, 2009 | Marketplaces
GunBroker.com celebrated its 10th anniversary and its first $1 billion in sales just recently. A major global online auction site for firearms and shooting...
Sharon Hill | September 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
The McClatchy Company just announced its November 15 launch of Gannett Company's Sunday Select preprint advertising campaign, targeting non-subscribers of flagship...
Linda Karlsson | September 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Software maker Adobe Systems announced Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Omniture, an online business optimization company. The deal is valued at $1.8...
AIM Group | September 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hong Kong-based Alibaba's stock tumbled 12 percent Monday on news that Yahoo had sold a 1.14 stake in the Chinese b-to-b marketplace's international enterprise,...
Peter M. Zollman | September 15, 2009 | Marketplaces
Oh, here we go again. It's just so ridiculous....
Sharon Hill | September 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
American Press Institute hired Greg Harmon and Greg Swanson to find out what newspaper publishers thought about paid content, in anticipation of this week's...
Mark Whittaker | September 14, 2009 | Automotive
Carsala, an online service for consumers who want to make a smart used-car buy, has just announced new tools. Founded in 2008 by MBA business school grads, Carsala...
Sharon Hill | September 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yahoo Inc. is selling its full 1.1 percent stake in Alibaba.com for about $150 million. Alibaba.com is the international site for Alibaba.cn, China's largest...
Peter M. Zollman | September 14, 2009 | Recruitment
Peter Casey, SVP of eQuest’s European operations, commented on the extension of the company’s U.K. business saying that “the U.K. expansion is to...
Peter M. Zollman | September 14, 2009 | Recruitment
Enhance Media, the recruitment research company behind the annual U.K. National Online Recruitment Audience Survey, says a record number of job boards will...
AIM Group | September 14, 2009 | Marketplaces
Billing itself as “the smarter online marketplace,” AdFlyer breaks its products into 3,000 categories and prides itself on a “compare”...
Mark Whittaker | September 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Technology news site Ars Technica, purchased by Conde Nast one year ago, just launched its paid subscription program for online content. Dubbed "Premier", it costs...
Mark Whittaker | September 14, 2009 | Automotive
Kelley Blue Book, long-time provider of new used car values and information, just announced its hiring of James Bell as primary executive market analyst. In his...
Sharon Hill | September 14, 2009 | Marketplaces
Google’s latest search tactic was first discovered via Twitter, and has now spread like wildfire among online marketing and local search gurus on the Web....
Steve | September 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Taking advertising dollars from adult-entertainment businesses is a lot like having a loaded gun in the house. You're certainly within your rights to do so,...
Mark Whittaker | September 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
The AIM Group will offer launch support and training to Wave2 Media Solutions clients who purchase the iPublish AdPortal industry leading self-service ad creation...
Sharon Hill | September 14, 2009 | Marketplaces
A recent Sun Herald online article is a reprint and link from this Biloxi, Miss. McClatchy newspaper to Tribune's Daily Press in Newport News, VA. We applaud that....
Peter M. Zollman | September 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. --- What are the legal implications of using social networking sites in...