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| Tuesday, March 24, 2009 |
 Twitter Sells An Ad!Twitter is finally tapping into a revenue trickle: It will offer promotional space to ExecTweets, a Web site that aggregates tweets from business executives, organized by ad network Federated Media. Microsoft is sponsoring ExecTweets, and FM will share some of that ad revenue with Twitter. Read >  People Complaining About Your Biz On Twitter? Salesforce.com Has An App For ThatComparing Twitter's Growth To Facebook And Google | |
| WSJ Puts A SELL On Netflix DVD rental service Netflix has been a big recession winner. Since November, shares have more than doubled, and Netflix is trading at a higher multiple than Apple or Google. But is Netflix's "stock-price bubble" close to "bursting," as the WSJ's Martin Peers argues? Read > | |
| Maybe Newspapers Don't Belong Online We're not convinced the best way newspaper companies such as Hearst, McClatchy and A.H. Belo can serve their various private and public shareholders is to try and win the online advertising game. Usually here is where we say newspapers need to try charging for access to their content. But this time, let's explore further. Read > | |
| Skype Still A Tough Sell To Corporations eBay's Skype is trying harder to court business users to its Internet phone service. This time, it's via a new service called "Skype for SIP" that plugs into many existing corporate phone systems, using Skype as the plumbing. The idea is that companies could potentially save money by pushing their calls over Skype's Internet phone network instead of using their existing phone service. Read > | |
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Over the weekend, we noted that former Vice President Al Gore planned to ban the press from a keynote he'll be giving at a mobile phone conference. Now, a quick about face. After the story hit the rounds on the Internet, Al now says he will let the press in. Read > Redlasso Back From The Dead... Sort Of Web video clip service Redlasso, which gave bloggers near-real-time access to embeddable broadcast and cable TV shows -- shut down last July after NBC and Fox sued the company for violating their copyrights. Now it's coming back... sort of. Read > Is Former Yahoo Rosensweig Too Late To Save Music Games Fad? Music games, led by Activision's "Guitar Hero" and MTV's "Rock Band," have been huge in recent years. So it's easy to see why former Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig would want to head up the "Guitar Hero" franchise for Activision. Read > In 2000, BusinessWeek Wondered: "How will Google ever make money?" Remember, it's cheap and easy to mock old business articles from the safe confines of the present, when we can look back with 20/20 hindsight. Let's get at it, shall we? Read > 10 Things We Love And Hate About Amazon's Kindle 2 Amazon's Kindle 2 e-book reader looks like a solid winner. It is, as usual, at the top of the company's best-selling-electronics charts. And we're starting to see them "in the wild" more often: It's not as strange to see regular people using them on the train, in airports, and coffee shops. Read > | |
| More Money For iPhone Games: Ngmoco Raises $10 Million Series BIntel Freezes Top Salaries, Exchanges Underwater OptionsCongo Email Scammers Support Harsh Sentence For MadoffBig Media Pushing Google On Search Placement | |
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