10Ks Are Out

The Google 10K and Yahoo! 10-K are out and people are poring over them for insights and interesting information. I don't yet have time to give either of them a careful look. But PaidContent has summarized some of the highlights…

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More on TPI

It appears next week is the deadline for initial bids on the Spanish publisher Telefonica Publicidad e Informacion, and there are reported to be five suitors: PagesJaunes (France Telecom), Yell Group and three private equity consortia. Saw this today on…

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Newspapers Starting to Move

There's lots starting to happen in the newspaper industry. One example of newspapers stepping out from their traditional model into something more interesting and daring is Enterprise NewsMedia's "WickedLocal" online network. This is the "local search" portal for several Enterprise…

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Thursday Miscellany

Leslie Walker of the Washington Post writes up an investigation by ClickFacts that estimates approximately 35 percent of a single advertiser's paid search clicks from Google were "bogus." According to Walker's piece, 17% of the leads that came from Yahoo!…

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Amazon Implements Click-to-Call

Amazon adopts eStara's click-to-call functionality (written up in today's WSJ [sub. req'd]). The article confuses "click-to-call" and "pay-per-phone-call" (one is infrastructure; the other is revenue model). eBay has begun to do the same thing in Europe with Skype. Click-to-call facilitates…

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Web Growth to Stall?

On the same day that Nielsen releases its bullish broadband numbers, this Web version of a story to appear in next week's BusinessWeek takes a contrarian view: "Why The Web Is Hitting A Wall. U.S. Internet growth is stalling. And…

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Activity in Redmond

There's tons of stuff going on over at Microsoft. I can't keep track of it all. So ... Search Engine Journal has updates here (video), here (Office Live's ad strategy) and here (MSN building ad network on internal sites).Here's the…

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The Mapping Space Race

Om Malik reports on Google's acquisition of 3-D rendering company @Last Software, which owns SketchUp. He also asks what it means for Google. In a word: maps. Here's the company's Google Earth plug in. Google Earth already does rudimentary 3-D…

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Vast.com Launches

I got a chance to get a quick preview and overview of Vast.com yesterday. What is Vast? On first blush it's yet another free classifieds site, joining an already extremely crowded field. But if one looks closer it's much more…

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Time and Money

I didn't listen in on the analyst call that McClatchy CEO Gary B. Pruitt held yesterday, but there must have been some chuckles when, according to The N.Y. Times, "Mr. Pruitt, tried to persuade his listeners that newspapers remained vital…

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