Demand Media to Trade Publicly, Google Declares War on Content Farms
Demand Media, the company behind eHow.com, is looking to go public this week. They plan to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “DMD,” but there could be trouble for the companies business. Just as Demand Media is launching their IPO, Google is cracking down on search engine spam. Demand Media’s [...]
Read MoreGoogle Offers to Compete with Groupon and LivingSocial
Mashable got their hands on a confidential fact sheet which seems to detail a group buying service: “Google Offers is a new product to help potential customers and clientele find great deals in their area through a daily email.” Google Offers looks and operates much like Groupon or LivingSocial. Users receive an e-mail with a [...]
Read MoreEric Schmidt No Longer Google CEO. Page Steps Up.
In a Tweet former Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced a management shake-up at the search giant: “Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!” Schmidt wrote on his Twitter account moments after Google dropped the bombshell that upstaged its fourth-quarter earnings. Schmidt, 55, will still be available to advise Page, 37, and Google’s other 37-year-old founder, Sergey [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 1-14-2011
VLC Removed from Apple App Store VLC, a very useful multi-format and Open Source media player, was removed from Apple’s App Store due to licensing issues. Usually, Apple is at fault in situations like this, but the situation here is a bit more complex. A Nokia employee by the name of Rémi Denis-Courmont basically twisted [...]
Read MoreGoogle Hires Ory Okolloh to Shape Their African Policy
Ory Okolloh, co-Founder of the popular open-source platform called Ushahidi, has decided to step down and join Google as their Policy Manager for Africa. Ory writes on her blog, “The role will involve developing policy /strategies on a number of areas of relevance to Google and the Internet in Africa and will involve working with different parties including government leaders, policy makers, regulators, industry groups and so on. It is a huge opportunity to bring Google’s resources to bear as far as the growth and development of the internet in Africa.” Find out more details inside.
Read MoreTech Year in Review 2010
Facebook and MySpace Research by danah boyd touched on how many teens viewed Facebook and MySpace. To put it simply, many of those involved in the study viewed MySpace as “the hood” or the ghetto while seeing Facebook as “cleaner.” With Facebook now more than 500 million strong and MySpace struggling to stay relevant, the [...]
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