Duncan Riley caused a mass heart-attack of the Techcrunch audience this week when he reported Robert Scoble’s prediction that Mahalo, Techmeme and Facebook are very soon going to destroy Google’s businesses. Robert Scoble might have succeeded in link-baiting, but his prediction did surely create a debate on who is going to halt, or at least [...]

The blogosphere is now speculating a new form of ad network that Google is coming up with. This is after a series of patents have been filed by Google in that direction. The key points to note in the new patents filed are: User-Distributed-Search: From what I infer from the patent statements, Google provides an [...]

Yesterday, Google announced that they shall now be placing ads inside the Youtube videos. Here are a few significant points with regard to this announcement: Ads appear semi-transparent on the videos from about the 15th second to the 25th second Advertisers need to pay $20 for every 1000 impressions The ads shall be non-intrusive and [...]

If you cannot face an enemy, become his ally. That’s exactly what Yahoo is trying to do. If the recent rumours are to be believed, Yahoo might give up its paid search advertising to partner with Google to do it for them. It is a deja vu of sorts for Yahoo who had snapped their [...]

Last week, Nokia announced that they were acquiring the multimedia sharing website Twango. Twango is a website where you may share all the pictures, videos, audios from your cellphones or digital cameras with your family and friends through a blog, website or a discussion forum. This was probably for the first time that a Mobile [...]