Unlimited DA
Metro One - the wireless provider that touts flat fees and unlimited calling without the hassle of contracts or service plans - announced it would now be offering unlimited DA calls. For $2.00 per month, Metro One subscribers can have…
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Metro One - the wireless provider that touts flat fees and unlimited calling without the hassle of contracts or service plans - announced it would now be offering unlimited DA calls. For $2.00 per month, Metro One subscribers can have…
Everyone's jumped on the Google going up, up, up bandwagon. But now, inevitably, the contrarians are emerging. An interesting financial analyst blog, the Internet Stock Blog, presents an argument from fund manager John Hussman about why Google is really worth…
John Battelle points to an interesting piece at Kuro5hin, "a tech/culture site," which reviews Google's past acquisitions and about who/what the company might acquire next. From where I sit, I think Google needs a couple of things. The company has…
This makes a great deal of sense for both A9, which was having trouble getting traffic, and Amazon, which has a great deal of traffic and is apparently seeking ways to expand beyond its core e-commerce model. A9 has the…
Articles today in the WSJ and Friday in the DM News argue that the recent acquisitions of Shopzilla and Shopping.com reflect that online comparison shopping is hot and speculate about further consolidation. Empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that while many…
Following Scripps, Gannett Buys PointRoll. PointRoll creates rich media ad banners. Speculation is that the deal was worth US$100 million. Here's the Financial Times on the TM buying IM trend (traditional media swallowing Internet media). More consolidation/acquisitions on the way.
AOL distribution brings a report of success with Ingenio's pay-per-call for a Cruise Operator. Calls are ultimately a key to local for SMEs, but this model will likely be adopted by large advertisers (i.e., the cruise operator) sooner than mass…
Kevin Ryan has a good column today summarizing consumer research about awareness and attitudes toward online advertising. Are consumers interested in online ads as additional, relevant "content," or are they duped by them and confused about what is advertising and…
Because "war" is the metaphor business journalists like to use for competition and almost everything else. . . welcome to "Map Wars." (Cue John Williams' music.) According to Battelle and SiliconValleyWatcher, Google is going to "A9" its mapping but with…
Riddle: How is advertising like politics? According to MediaSpan CMO Mark Zagorski, they're both local. And he sees more geo-targeting in the future. We obviously agree that local is very important, but it's complex and there are major issues in…
While IAC has said it's basically done with major acquisitions after Ask.com, consider that it just sold its stake in Vivendi Universal for US$3.4 billion. Although the deal is complex and convoluted, it should give IAC the ability to do…
Not exactly. There are profits this time around and consumers have embranced the Internet. But consider this: Google has a market cap of just over US$81 billion. In 2004, the company had revenues of just over US$3 billion. By contrast,…
Why anyone is paying $61.90 per month for broadband connectivity now that SBC and Yahoo! are offering it at 15 bucks a month is a fine question. I pay my bill to the same company Greg does and I pay…
There's an interesting piece, "What eBay Could Learn From Craigslist," in the NY Times. The piece contrasts the growth curves and cost structures of the two companies. It implies certain principles could be extracted from the experience of Craigslist that…
No real surprises here: The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising totaled over $2.8 billion for the first quarter of 2005 making this the highest reported quarter in nine consecutive growth quarters. Q1 2005…
Today I tripped over an offer from Weather.com for a personalized weather report called weather.com €œgold€. For $19.95, weather.com gold will get you more speed for downloading radar maps, the ability to customize €œyour€ weather page and add your exact…
Right on the heels of eBay's costly acquisition of Shopping.com, Cincinnati-based, "diversified media" company E.W. Scripps buys Shopzilla (formerly BizRate). The price was reportedly US$525 million in cash. Scripps owns newpapers, cable networks and local TV affiliates. Now it's made…
As blogged by Greg Sterling earlier today, E.W. Scripps, the Cincinnati based media company known by some for its sponsorship of the National Spelling Bee, announced plans to buy online shopping site €" Shopzilla for an estimated $525 million. Scripps…
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of the NY Times Co., spoke at the 58th World Newspaper Congress in Korea, which was covered in The Korea Herald. According to the article, Sulzberger argued that the Internet did not represent a crisis for…
Why did it do this? More distribution for eBay merchants Popularity of comparison shopping/shopping search Moving beyond the auction model ePinions reviews/ratings/community The growth imperative -- its stock has taken a beating in the past few quarters for not showing…