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AOL Simplifies Widget Creation for Advertisers

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Platform-A, AOL's digital advertising subsidiary, is upping the interactive ante with a free service that simplifies the creation, syndication and measurement of widget-based ad campaigns.

Source(s): Social Media Portal, CNET

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Update: Yahoo, Icahn Reach Compromise

Monday, July 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Yahoo investor Carl Icahn has agreed to put his proxy fight to rest in exchange for three board seats.

Source(s): Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch

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Yahoo Launches Web Site to Take on Icahn

Friday, July 18, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Hoping to make its case to stockholders, Yahoo has launched a Web site that explains why investor Carl Icahn's plan to replace its board with his own hand-picked slate "is not the right answer" for the search company.

Source(s): CNET

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Google-Yahoo Ad Pact Means Keywords Could Cost More

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Should the Google-Yahoo deal comes to pass, businesses could find themselves paying more for their search advertising.

Source(s): The New York Times

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Google Displays AdWords Popularity

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google has added a "search volume data" feature to the Keyword Tool that potential advertisers use to select keywords to bid on. The new feature gives an idea of how many people actually search on those keywords.

Source(s):  Google AdWords blog

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Microsoft Open to a Yahoo Deal If Icahn's Board Takes Charge

Monday, July 7, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft would be willing to once again discuss a deal with Yahoo if investor Carl Icahn's proposed board is elected.

Source(s): The New York Times

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Small Businesses See Modest Job Growth, Midsize Businesses Down: Report

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Midsize businesses shed 35,000 jobs, while small businesses gained 7,000, according to the ADP National Employment Report for June.

Source(s): The Street, CNN Money

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Microsoft To Buy Online Search Company Powerset

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Online searches could take on greater meaning with Microsoft's planned acquisition of Powerset, whose natural language-based technologies strive to understand the meaning and intent behind keywords used for indexing and searching.

Source(s): The Register, TechCrunch

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Vendors Fight Back Against at 'Patent Trolls'

Monday, June 30, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Eleven high-tech companies have joined forces to safeguard themselves from costly patent lawsuits.

Source(s): CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal

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NEC To Acquire NetCracker

Friday, June 27, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Japan's NEC is spending $300 million to acquire NetCracker Technology, a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of network interfaces and communications services.

Source(s): Reuters

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Visa Creates Small Business Network on Facebook

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Visa is designing a small-business network and application for social networking site Facebook and will offer advertising credit to businesses that join.

Source(s): Associated Press

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Nokia Acquires Social Networking Startup

Monday, June 23, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Continuing its push into the mobile services world, Nokia has announced plans to buy Plazes, a Berlin-based social networking startup.

Source(s): TechCrunch, Network World

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Business & E-Business | Mobile | Mobile

Yahoo Down More Execs, Up Two E-Mail Domains

Friday, June 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Post-breakdown of Microsoft talks, and despite its recent advertising deal with Google, Yahoo's revolving door continues to spin.

Source(s): TechCrunch, The New York Times

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Icahn: Yahoo, Google Deal 'Might Have Some Merit'

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Carl Icahn, who last month launched a proxy fight against Yahoo's board, conceded the online advertising deal between Yahoo and Google "might have some merit," though he's still disappointed that a merger with Microsoft didn't happen.

Source(s): The Street

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eBay Opens Selling Manager to Developers

Monday, June 16, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

eBay is launching a developer program called Project Echo which will for the first time enable third-party developers to add functions to the tools eBay sellers use to manage their listings.

Source(s): Washington Post, Computerworld

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Yahoo, Google Join Advertising Forces

Friday, June 13, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Yahoo has announced a nonexclusive advertising partnership with Google that (for now) puts to rest acquisition discussions it continued having with Microsoft.

Source(s): PC World, Redmond Channel Partner

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Motorola Joins Mobile 3G Party

Monday, June 9, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Joining Samsung and Apple in today's rush of 3G phone announcements is Motorola, which launched its MC75, a ruggedized handheld "enterprise digital assistant."

Source(s): ChannelWeb, Computerworld

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Yahoo, Icahn Trade More Letters

Friday, June 6, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

In yet another letter sent to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, investor Carl Icahn has accused Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the Yahoo board of creating and activating a James Bond-like "self-destructive doomsday machine."

Source(s): The Wall Street Journal, The Register

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Verizon To Buy Alltel

Thursday, June 5, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Verizon Communications has agreed to acquire Alltel, pushing it ahead of AT&T Wireless as the nation's largest cell-phone provider.

Source(s): The New York Times

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Business & E-Business | Mobile

Google Launches Site Search Tool for Businesses

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google has launched Google Site Search, a rebranded version of Google Custom Search Business Edition that gives businesses a way to offer Google search on their own Web sites.

Source(s): InformationWeek, TechCrunch

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Yahoo CEO Yang: Negotiating With Shareholders Is 'Fun'

Thursday, May 29, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft is the company that has ruled out a merger for now, not Yahoo, according to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who spoke on Wednesday as The Wall Street Journal’s "D: All Things Digital" conference in Carlsbad, Calif.

Source(s): The New York Times, Reuters

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Mobile Broadband To Boost Economy: Report

Thursday, May 29, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Wireless broadband will generate $860 billion in additional gross domestic product in the next decade, according to a new report from by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA).

Source(s): InformationWeek

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Dell Found Guilty of Fraud in New York

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

A New York judge has found Dell and an affiliate guilty of fraud, false advertising, deceptive business and abusive debt collection practices, following a lawsuit from the state's attorney general, Andrew Cuomo, one year ago.

Source(s): Bizjournals, CNN

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Yahoo Postpones Board Meeting

Friday, May 23, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Yahoo has pushed back the date for its annual shareholders meeting, now "expected to be around the end of July 2008," according to paperwork filed with the SEC.

Source(s): Forbes

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Google Opens Google Sites to All

Thursday, May 22, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

When Google Sites was first announced, it was available only to businesses with Google Apps accounts. Now any small business or individual can use the information-sharing and collaboration tool.

Source(s): InformationWeek, CNET News

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Microsoft Unveils Live Search Cashback

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft will issue customers rebates on certain purchases they make through its Live Search site.

Source(s): Computerworld, PC Pro

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VMware Offers Virtualization Training

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Virtualization solution provider VMware is launching VMware Professional Services, an education and training program to help customers create virtual machines.

Source(s): InformationWeek, The Register

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Google Opens Ad Network to Third Parties

Monday, May 19, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Google has begun allowing certified third parties to serve advertising and track data across the Google network, giving online advertisers more flexible choices in managing their campaigns.

Source(s): Official Google Blog

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Microsoft, Yahoo Back At the Bargaining Table

Monday, May 19, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

Microsoft and Yahoo are back in talks, this time discussing an "alternative transaction" that would pair the companies in the world of online search advertising.

Source(s): Wired

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Revenue From Online Advertising Slows

Monday, May 19, 2008
By bMighty.com Staff

With the economic recession to blame, Web publishers, including AOL, Time Warner and Yahoo, have seen a decline in revenue from display advertising, in particular, as well as a slowdown in overall advertising growth.

Source(s): The New York Times

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