Rumors are circulating about companies potentially interested in purchasing Twitter, as the micro-blogging platform continues to increase in popularity. It has become common for larger companies to gauge the success of novice startups, and if they foresee profit potential that can enhance their current operations, they tend to begin the process of making offers.
There is [...]
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Who Will Purchase Twitter
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Bing off to a Respectable Start
Friday, June 12th, 2009While it remains premature to state victory, Microsoft’s latest attempt at search, Bing, is off to a respectable start. At a whopping two weeks old, Bing has generated a nice bump in users, possibly thanks to spreading the word about the newly released search engine.
According to comScore.com, Bing’s market share in the U.S. rose from [...]
Universal and YouTube music video deal, Vevo, is a go
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009The largest music company in the world, Universal Music Group, has reached an agreement with YouTube to create an online platform for music videos, to be called Vevo. The agreement is said to include the licensing of Universal recordings to be used in user-generated videos on YouTube.
This is the latest of efforts on behalf of [...]
Google, square one for future venture capital leaders?
Monday, April 13th, 2009Another Google executive has left the nest to join a venture capital firm. Top Google sales executive for Asia-Pacific and Latin America Sukinder Singh Cassidy has accepted the position of C.E.O.-in-residence at Accel. Accel is the venture firm behind Facebook, MetroPCS and Baidu, where Cassidy will work with companies in Accel’s digital media and advertising [...]
Read MoreGoogle to index databases
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009Search giant and leader Google has indexed over a trillion web addresses. While the fact that Google knows about over a trillion websites, what is even more remarkable is that figure is only a fraction of what is on the entire World Wide Web.
The World Wide Web holds a vast amount of hidden data in [...]
Cell phones are the future of search
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Cell phones have certainly evolved since the first cellular call was placed on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper,who is now chairman, CEO and co-founder of ArrayComm, Inc. At the time of the call, Martin Cooper was general manager of Motorola’s Communications Systems Division.
That first call was placed to Cooper’s rival at AT&T’s Bell Labs [...]