Facebook has been the most talked about social network in recent times. Be it for the latest Facebook app or the rumors of acquisition, the blogosphere loves talking about Facebook. It is no surprise that LinkedIn, the leader when it comes to business networking, now has a reason to worry after Facebook launched the Career [...]

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 [...]

Wikipedia is the most celebrated example for success in Search Engine Optimization. There are hundreds of thousands of keywords that get a link to Wikipedia on the top 5 search results on Google. This being the case, Wikipedia holds tremendous clout on what internet users read and perceive. Though it does not make financial nor [...]

It is one and a half years since Yahoo acquired Del.icio.us, the online bookmarking service. Any acquisition goes with a long term business strategy. At most times, one of the primary reason for the acquisition of a company is to integrate the users of both the services. Other times, it is to leverage the audience [...]

Google has been on a buying spree over the past few months. Just weeks after announcing the purchase of DoubleClick, the online advertising network, this week, Google announced the purchase of FeedBurner, the very popular RSS feeds website. With the kind of money that Google has been making, and also stands to gain through such [...]

This April, Google announced their acquisition of Doubleclick. This was for a whopping $3.1 billion dollars. This has signalled the first step towards online Ad network consolidation. This is because, soon after, Yahoo too has announced their complete takeover of RightMedia. This was for $680 million (Yahoo already owned 20 percent of the company) For [...]