Google acquires Slide
Google has acquired third-party social media applications developer Slide for a reported US$228 million. Pay-Pal co-founder Max Levchin started Slide in 2004. The company’s value...
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Google’s music service is coming!
Hmm is it only me who haven’t heard about Google’s coming music service?! Just found this interesting article on Mediapost – looks like we finally can...
Google wants to dominate display + some interesting stats!
The world’s largest search engine is branching out. Google has spent the last year building up its display advertising products. Considering how thoroughly Google dominates...
World Cup and Caffeine from Google
While following the World Cup in South Africa I sometimes find myself searching for scores and more information about the games and players. That is also...
Online Ad Spending in Asia-Pacific Is Heating Up
Over @ eMarketer I found this article about online ad spending in the Asia-Pacific region – the takeaway: Things are heating up much faster in the region than...
Google Ad Innovations
Google launched Google Ad Innovations end of March – a sort of a Google Lab, but this time for its many advertising products that it...
Twitter launches ‘Promoted Tweets’ ad platform
Twitter is launching its long-awaited advertising platform, Promoted Tweets, with big brands such as Sony Pictures, Red Bull and Virgin America becoming the first advertisers...
Google’s ranking now takes loading speed into consideration!
Most online publishers already know instinctively that a slow-loading website isn’t a good thing. After all, who has the time to browse around a website...
The future of social media
Looking through a whitepaper on Facebook and reading an article ‘if it makes sense to purchase Friendster’ I found some interesting points that I wanted to share....
Interactive tracking, measurements & campaign ROI
Thought I should share some of the lastest analytics news/tools I found… Microsoft Excel-Google Analytics integration Through one of my LinkedIn groups I found this...
Twitter on the rise in New Zealand…
In the last couple of weeks I have written a couple of blog posts around great use of Twitter as an advertising channel: Terminator case, Twitter cases...
Microsoft and Yahoo challenge Google
Microsoft finally persuaded Yahoo to surrender control of the Internet’s second most popular search engine and join it in a daunting battle — taking on...
Great use of Twitter – Part 2
Part 2 of great Twitter cases: Tweeding restaurant on wheels Restaurants on wheels have already come a long way… Now the taco truck—a longstanding institution...
Great use of Twitter – Part 1
I’ve been so and so regarding Twitter and I somewhat still am – to be honest I don’t really see why I should follow anyone...
Google launched voice-based mobile search
Google has launched a free voice-based mobile internet search facility in India that has been built entirely by the internet search giant’s India engineering team....
Google Voice/Skype and Digsby.com/Google Wave
Skype got some serious competition coming their way: At this point Google Voice is only available by invite – check the feauture out here: http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html...
