Will the NY Times Get into the SEM Biz?
May 4, 2007
Online Boomlet: New York Times Debuts Small Business Site | publications.mediapost.com
The NY Times has launched a small business center with its own and third party content.
Google in Hunt for WSJ? When Donkeys Fly!
May 3, 2007
Dow Jones Holders Say Murdoch Bid May Trigger Auction (Update4) | www.bloomberg.com
For those that are following the thus far (and hopefully always) unsuccessful attempt by Rupert Murdoch to buy Dow Jones, publisher of the WSJ, here’s a Bloomberg piece that speculates that Google may be in hunt for the paper.
No Winners in Local? Not Exactly
May 3, 2007
Niesenholtz at YPA: Local ‘Untapped Opportunity’ | localonliner.com
Peter Krasilovsky’s post about NY Times’ Digital CEO Martin Niesenholtz comments to the Yellow Pages Association conference yesterday. Peter’s summary of Niesenholtz’s remarks is extensive and worth reading. If the summary is an indication it looks like it was a good address.
Citysearch Gets Overdue Update + Video
May 3, 2007
Citysearch Brings Local Businesses to Life With the Introduction of Video | www.prnewswire.com
Today, IAC’s Citysearch becomes the first major local search consumer destination to add video on any kind of scale (note the qualifiers). In addition to video, produced by TurnHere and currently available on the New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles sites, the press release explains other changes and upgrades.
Jingle Announces CMR Relationships
May 2, 2007
1-800-FREE411 Partners With Certified Marketing Representatives to Create New Media Opportunities for Yellow Pages Advertisers | home.businesswire.com
Jingle (1-800-Free411) needs more advertisers to boost revenues and provide ad coverage, despite high levels of consumer adoption. CMRs need distribution to give them the exposure they once got almost exclusively through print yellow pages.
Local.com Announces New Ad Products
May 2, 2007
Local.com Offers Paid Search Placement To Small Businesses | publications.mediapost.com
Local.com has cleaned up its site and is launching some new ad products.
TargetSpot: Online Radio ‘Agency’
May 2, 2007
A Virtual Ad Agency for Online Radio | www.nytimes.com
TargetSpot is a relatively new “streaming media marketplace” (and “ad agency”) that offers self service ad-creation tools across a variety of formats: banners, video, audio, text. All ads currently will appear in the context of online radio programming. Targeting is available by demographic segment and at the zip-code level. CBS Radio is the first major customer.
FAST Launches ‘FASTMedia’ for Publishers
May 2, 2007
Fast Search sides with newspapers in Web sales war | www.reuters.com
Norwegian enterprise search provider FAST is launching a paid-search platform that publishers (newspapers) can use to auction and serve their own ads and maintain all the ad revenue. The message to the market is: no need to work with Google or Yahoo! and share revenues.
Google will Continue to Dominate Yahoo, Sending Earnings Lower
April 27, 2007
Earning Report Sends Yahoo To 10-Week Low | www.tradingmarkets.com
In the short article that follows we briefly examine the crucial nature of search as it is a powerful driver of advertising revenue on the Web. We believe that Yahoo's revenue challenge is long term and related to the company’s seeming inability to compete with Google in search. We, also examine the hidden strategy behind Google’s potential acquisition of DoubleClick and conclude that the expansion of advertising formats and payout alternatives provided to advertisers may put Yahoo even further behind in the battle for revenues.
Why Print Made a Major Comeback in 2006
April 25, 2007
Printer Chooses a Trio Of Kodak Solution | printondemand.com
2006 was the first year printing shipments were significantly over the previous year. Since the mid 1990's, total shipments have decreased from over $120BB down to this years $91BB. This years shipments were up over 2005 primarily due to the huge increase in print on demand made cost effective by Kodak, HP, Presstek, Xerox and others smaller players in the DI market.
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