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| Monday, January 12, 2009 |
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 Yahoo's Share Of All Search Advertisers Drops 36% in Q4After holding steady for most of 2008, Yahoo's share of all search engine advertisers dropped like a rock in October, November and December -- plummeting from 30.4% to 19.4% at the end of Q4, according to search marketing firm AdGooroo. Microsoft, meanwhile, added to its share of advertisers, closing the gap with Yahoo from 17.6% in Q3 to 3% in Q4. Google, of course, continued to utterly dominate. Careful making too much of these numbers, which you'll notice do not start with dollar signs. Microsoft (MSFT) can gain as many advertisers as it wants, but if they're all spending a fraction of what they spend on Google, it won't matter one bit. That being said, it can't be good for Yahoo to have lost so much of it share -- especially at a time when we're sure its display business is taking a beating due to the poor economy. Read > The Real Carol Bartz: Assessing Yahoo's New CEO Crush Yahoo's Top Search Advertiser Makes Its Money Selling Google Ads Analyst: Google Has At Least 1.3 Million Advertisers | |
| Cloud Computing Reality Check: Microsoft Servers Crushed By Windows 7 Interest in the recently announced public availability of Windows 7 Beta has been so strong that Microsoft's servers failed under the load, leaving Windows engineers scrambling to add capacity. Microsoft has been actively stoking interest in Windows 7 Beta, and they must have known interest would be high once they made it available. So what does Microsoft running out of bandwidth say about the reliability of Microsoft's forthcoming "Azure" cloud computing environment, which promises to solve the problem of usage spikes for others? Read > | |
| Another Big Newspaper Biting The Dust: Seattle Post-Intelligencer The speed with which the 200-year old newspaper industry is disintegrating is remarkable. The model no longer works, at least not for most papers. And most of the industry seems incapable of--or unwilling to--adapt to the new reality. Hearst is the latest example, putting the Seattle Post-Intelligencer up for sale. If it can't find a buyer, it will fire most of the staff and nix the print edition--or just shut the whole thing down. Read > | |
| Things Better Left Off Twitter: Bridezilla Edition Can Internet oversharing get any worse than self-described "new media douchebag" @grobertson getting down on one knee (in front of his computer) to ask his girlfriend to marry him... on Twitter? Oh yes, it unfortunately can. Read > | |
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"In general, start-ups are not the source of our economic vitality or job creation," writes professor Scott Shane. Read > Skype For Android No Threat To Wireless Carriers -- Yet Our first thought when we heard that eBay's Internet phone company Skype was making an app for Google's Android cellphones: Yikes, wonder what Android carrier T-Mobile thinks of that. Turns out, it's less of a threat than we thought. Read > Microsoft's Zune To Live Forever? Friday's report in the Financial Times that Microsoft may be on the verge of finally terminating the Zune has rattled some neves. In a post on Microsoft's Zune blog, the company repeats the Zune is about the store, not the player, and it's still full steam ahead. Read > Fired Dell Exec Gets $10 Million Severance Package If only Dell's former president of global operations, Michael Cannon, was as good at running a computer company as he is at negotiating employment contracts. Read > | |
| Mark Cuban: 3D Movies Are "The LSD Of 2009"Barrier to Google Chrome For Macs RemovedYahoo Sleeps Through Palm Treo, Centro EraObama's BlackBerry Endorsements Worth Up To $50 Million | |
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