By Daya Baran at March 17, 2008 0 Comments
RatePoint, a startup providing online reputation management platforms for businesses has hit the jackpot with Verisign. RatePoint has got one of the most trusted brands on the internet to resell its product to Verisign’s 1,000,000 customers. RatePoint’s online reputation management and customer feedback platform will be offered as a value-added to customers who purchase VeriSign’s retail SSL certificate. VeriSign’s SSL customers which are mostly online businesses can use the service to rate their overall satisfaction with that business.
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By Daya Baran at March 17, 2008 0 Comments
eBay (EBAY) unveiled the eBay Partner Network, a new global affiliate program for publishers driving traffic to eBay. The affiliate network will be in-house, designed to more fully align the programs across eBay’s global properties and give affiliates expanded access to revenue opportunities across its platforms. Previous eBay’s affiliate program was run by ValueClick (VCLK), whose shares a taking a big today. ValueClick in a full service integrated online marketing company.
“Affiliate partners are central to eBay’s ongoing strategy of improving the user experience and increasing engagement,” said Matt Ackley, vice president of Internet marketing More»
Labels: eBay, Online Advertising, online services
By Daya Baran at March 14, 2008 0 Comments
Microsoft (MSFT) has acquired San Francisco’s Rapt, an online ad management company. The purchase price undisclosed. Microsoft has been on a buying spree to catch up to Google in the online search and advertising space.
Microsoft will integrate the Rapt into its Atlas Publisher Suite, acquired as part of the $6 billion aQuantive deal last year. From Microsoft’s press release:
With the inclusion of Rapt, the Atlas Publisher Suite allows Microsoft to provide its customers with integrated asset and inventory management, forecasting, yield and sales management, and ad delivery and operations.
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By Daya Baran at March 12, 2008 0 Comments
crgslst announced the launch of a slick multi-city search tool for Craigslist. Craigslist presently does not have a multi-search service. The tool combines RSS feeds from Craigslist with AJAX to populate the search fields. Housing Maps, does a similar thing, the site displays the apartment listings on Craigslist using Google Maps.
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Labels: Craigslist, online services, Search
By Daya Baran at March 12, 2008 0 Comments
Another Ex-Googler has launched yet another an apartment listing service similar to Craigslist called Rentbits. Rentbits is joining an already crowded space that is fighting to lure users.
Josh Lowensohn of CNET, called the service mediocre. He writes, “In most cases I found the results came from ApartmentHunterz.com, but mixed in with those were listings from Sublet.com and CityCribs.com. Craigslist however, is nowhere to be found, which is unfortunate.” More>>
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By Daya Baran at March 11, 2008 0 Comments
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton denied Viacom’s (VIAb) request to amend its complaint against Google to add a claim for punitive damages. The judge said that common law punitive damages cannot be recovered under the Copyright Act.
Viacom has files a $1 billion frivolous lawsuit against Google’s YouTube which is an online video sharing service. Eric Schmidt has previously said that, “Viacom is a company built on lawsuits … look at their history”. Schmidt also pointed to the fact that Viacom was currently being run by a former general counsel of the company, Philippe Dauman. The company More»
Labels: Online Advertising, online services, Youtube
By Daya Baran at March 06, 2008 0 Comments
Amazon, plans to start selling wine over the web in the U.S. and is recruiting a senior wine buyer, to furnish a “massive new product selection” for the site. Selling wine over the web is not new and many have failed due to regulatory complexities.
Amazon previously invested $30m in Wineshopper.com which folded a year later. Presently, Wine.com, is the largest US online wine seller. The site sells gift baskets on Amazon, but not wine.
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By Daya Baran at March 04, 2008 0 Comments
According to a recent survey by the Internet is now the most frequent used source of news in the U.S. outweighing newspapers, television and radio. Internet news sites were also cited as being more trustworthy sources, with almost a third (32%) saying they were the most trusted followed by newspapers (22%), television (21%) and radio (15%).
Those aged between 18 and 29 - were even more likely to turn to the Internet for news than older age groups. Over half (55%) get their news and information online, compared with just 35% of those aged 65 and over, some of whom More»
Labels: online services
By Daya Baran at March 04, 2008 0 Comments
Sheryl Sandberg is leaving her position as Google’s Vice President of Global Online Sales to become the new chief operating officer at Facebook. Sheryl is replacing Owen Van Netta who is leaving to pursue other opportunities. She will begin her new job on March 24.
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Labels: Facebook, online services
By Daya Baran at February 24, 2008 0 Comments
Harper’s Magazine featured story “Keyword Evil: Google’s addiction to cheap electricity” is about Google’s infrastructure buildup in Oregon’s Columbia River and how it has triggered an arms race. Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask are also building data centers on the Columbia River. As they compete to offer software, music and movies over the web in the coming era of of “Cloud Computing.” Among other details, it points out that the plant is expected to use 103 megawatts of electricity by 2011 or enough to power a city the size of Tacoma. More>>
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