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Blog - April/2009
Posted on 27/04/2009 by Sarah
The world is going Twitteri crazy right now. From A-list celebrities twittering away daily to sports stars getting fined by their team for twittering during half time team talks, Twitter is everywhere.
Both Microsoft and Googlei have been linked with potential buyouts of Twitter and it is even now dabbling in becoming a fully fledged search engine of sorts. At the recent SMX conference in Sydney Twitter expert, Darren Rowse explained some of the benefits of using Twitter not only for personal use but for business as well.
Despite Twitter seeming to be in the technology news all the time the UK still only ranks third for Twitter Usage with 6.8% of the Twitter population coming from the UK....
Posted on 23/04/2009 by Sarah
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has come out all guns blazing in her thoughts about the future of Yahoo after the first quarter financial results for 2009 were released. Included in these were some restructuring plans and areas where Yahoo aims to improve upon for the future.
The first quarter results have seen Yahoo’s revenue drop 14% from $1.35 billion to $1.15 billion from the same time last year. Will shareholders be patient enough to wait for a restructuring of the company to take effect?
Yahoo is preparing to lay off over 600 people in an attempt to restructure the company. Bartz was quick to confirm that this wasn’t just staff cutting measure due to the downturn in profits but one that will...
Posted on 21/04/2009 by Sarah
This past week Googlei announced its first quarter-on-quarter losses as the worldwide recession finally hit the search engine giants. This loss is the first of any kind for the company, but still shows an increase from the same quarter in 2008.
It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to hear of the loss as trends change all the time, and Google has done well to ride the recession so well up to this point. Media Weekly reported that some of the hardest losses for Google have been here in the UK.
Google generated $5.51 billion in revenues with a net income of $1.42 billion during the quarter. This represents a 6% increase from the same time last year but a 3% drop from the previous quarter....
Posted on 21/04/2009 by Sarah
It may only be the fourth most popular search engine, but Ask.com’s butler symbol, Jeeves, has remained one of the more iconic symbols in the search in recent years, so much so that the people at Ask have decided to bring the butler back to its UK based searches after a three year hiatus.
The return of Jeeves has coincided with an improved-look site that Ask believes will work harder to answer your search queries and produce results more relevant to your query.
Ask.com will also be showcasing a “question of the day” and the relevant answers, as well as bringing the dress sense of the butler more up to date. Look out for an extensive advertising campaign on all forms of media, complete with...
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Posted on 14/04/2009 by Sarah
Microsoft and Googlei are preparing to do battle again in an effort to strike a deal with Twitteri involving their search service. The All Things Digital website reported that the two major companies are vying with each other for control of what those in the know are calling “the next great battlefield in search”.
This is due to the real time search nature of the “tweets” posted by Twitter users. There is also the opportunity of selling related ads on the Twitter site that is of interest to both Google and Microsoft.
One thing that possibly stands in the way of the two companies is the direction that Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams will want to take Twitter.
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