eBay reported record quarterly revenues but was the latest victim of the Wall Street inflated expectations game. More on the numbers from InternetNews.com. Also, Om Malik takes a look at Skype revenues (mostly from outside the U.S.).
Here's an important post from John Battelle about the Bush administration's efforts to get at users' online behavior and search data. Battelle excerpts a San Jose Mercury News article on the Justice Dept. efforts: In court papers filed in U.S.…
Nielsen reported that total search volume was flat at 5.1 billion (vs. October). The following were the search market share numbers: Google: 46% Yahoo!: 23% MSN Search: 11% AOL: 7%Here are the November comScore numbers:Google: 39.8% Yahoo!: 29.5% MSN Search:…
There was public discussion by the telcos and perhaps other broadband providers about trying to charge fees/taxes/tolls to the Googles and Vonages of the world for the high bandwidth usage they directly and indirectly cause. Om Malik points to a…
So Apple missed too (net income doubles but falls short of estimates) ... But the company's shares weren't off as much as Yahoo! yesterday after missing analysts' estimates by A PENNY. There were blog postings here and there and a…
Back in the not-so-old days, the rule of thumb for a Regional Bell Operating Company was that Yellow Pages accounted for approximately 10 percent of revenues and 20 percent of net profit for the corporation. This meant an RBOC could…
The Australian is reporting that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is planning to challenge Sensis' growing position in Australian directories, classifieds and local search with its own "listings" product. The product will be powered by News Corp.'s latest asset, Australian Local…
Tribune Interactive has signed a deal with WorldNow, according to an article in today's MediaPost (reg. req'd), to provide streaming video for all Tribune's online properties (newspapers and TV). WorldNow also operates the Local Media Network, which offers video and…
Newspaper giant Gannett has invested in free DA/mobile local search provider 4INFO. Here's more detail in the release. Gannett properties will gain distribution on the service as part of the deal.
The irrepressible Kevin Ryan has a column all about local today (roundup of recent developments). LiveDeal.ca (a joint venture with Canada's Torstar, which owns book publishing and newspaper properties) went live this week. The site is being integrated into Torstar's…
Joining Yahoo!, Insider Pages, Judy's Book, Kudzu, Backfence, Yelp and many others, BeanPool has launched. It looks like they built this on blogger (same colors, etc.). Here's the full release. Search Engine Journal offers a more in-depth discussion.
Here's an interesting concept that circumvents some of the challenges of integrating advertising in online maps. SEW points out that the rooftop ads probably aren't for the sake of online mapping satellite imagery; they actually target commercial flights as they…
In December, we wrote an Advisory about toolbar strategies employed by portals, IYPs and others. The benefit, in a nutshell, is to cement the brand into a user's browser, or desktop, which all but guarantees repeat use and exposure. The…
Open federation for Google Talk: the other Google announcement today. This is about the ability of IM clients/systems to connect with one another. More from Om Malik.
One thing seems to stand in the way of Rupert Murdoch's march toward a broadband empire: the broadband network itself. This BusinessWeek article outlines his plans to compete with cable and telecom "triple play" bundles by updating News Corp.-owned satellite…
Q4 revenues were $1.5 billion, a 39 percent increase from $1.078 billion for the same period of 2004. This impressive growth was not enough to satisfy some analysts' very high expectations, although revenues were in line with consensus expectations. The…
This just in from the bizarre item of the day department. A new trend in local advertising? Probably not, but good for a quick laugh on a Tuesday.
I'm late to this news this morning ... But Google makes another sort of local push ... into radio, buying dMarc Broadcasting of Newport Beach, California. There's a reported downpayment of just over $100 million and more than $1 billion…
Some/many people are not working in the U.S. today because of Martin Luther King Jr. Here's a piece on "globalizing" his legacy from The New York Times (reg. req'd). And here's bio info from Wikipedia. And here's Google's "I have…
For the past several weeks, I've been receiving tons of e-mails about speaking opportunities at the show in March and I've had to defer people. Our agenda is done and we're going though a quick final review. This is only…
