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Archive for February 2008

February 17th, 2008

AOL Joins the Game

AOL now joins the game. According to the Press Association, whose website is hosted in google, AOL’s advisers met with representatives from Yahoo to see if a deal is workable.
There is no definite terms available yet as of now.
One thing for sure is that Yahoo has choices apart from the one given by […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 14th, 2008

Yahoo Acquires Maven Networks

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO),  has acquired Maven Networks, Inc., a leading online video platform provider.  This move is geared towards expanding Yahoo’s consumer video and specially for advertising.   The price?  A cool $160 million.
“Video is projected to be the fastest growing segment of the online ad market, and Maven will significantly help advance Yahoo!’s strategy, expanding […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 12th, 2008

Google’s 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has launched its 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition. The task required one to use Google Sketchup which is a 3D modeling software tool which can let you place your models in Google Earth.
Simply model your school’s campus buildings in Google SketchUp, geo-reference them in Google Earth […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 11th, 2008

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft $44.6 Billion Offer

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has just rejected the $44.6 Billion offer made by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Yahoo wants at least $40 a share.
From Bloomberg’s website it seems like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is proposing a partnership with Yahoo.
“Google CEO Eric Schmidt contacted Yang to suggest a partnership, the New York Times reported Feb. […]

By Noel -- 1 comment

February 10th, 2008

SEO Basics - How to use Google’s site: Command

This is a must for all SEOs to know. I use this command all the time both for searching my sites and for searching and analysing competitor websites.
The basic step is to simply type in “site:<yourdomain.com>” into Google’s search textbox. What this does is it will show all pages of […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 9th, 2008

Around the SEO world in 5 links

If there’s a movie called Around the World in 80 days,  this is my own little SEO version which I’ll call  “Around the SEO world in 5 links”.   I would like to highlight some of the blog posts over the last few days that I like to share with you (my readers).   I plan to […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 8th, 2008

Google Phones (GPHONE) Prototypes Expected at Mobile World Congress

Google phones (NASDAQ: GOOG) otherwise called Gphones are expected to be shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. A couple of handphone makers will be showing off their prototype phones that will run using Google’s Android Project.

“the success of Google’s effort to develop a next-generation mobile phone will largely depend on convincing […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 8th, 2008

SEO Basics

I’m sure every now and then, a couple of SEO newbies pass by SEO blogs such as searchengineherald with questions about basic SEO stuff.
So I think I’ll post a series about basic SEO stuff targeted to the newbies once in a while.
To start with, here’s a video I found which covers some basic SEO […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 5th, 2008

Yahoo Acquires Foxy Tunes

While all the attention over the past few days were with the Microsoft-Yahoo possible merger, Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO) has just acquired Foxy Tunes.
Foxy Tunes is an Israeli-based company who developed a cool Firefox plugin that enables you you to control a variety of music players directly from your firefox browser.
For those […]

By Noel -- 1 comment

February 5th, 2008

Mobile Search is the Next Frontier

One of the most promising, untapped market I believe is mobile search. I don’t have exact figures at hand but I strongly believe that there are a lot more people who have mobile phones compared to the number of people with PCs.
At times, I myself am nowhere near a computer but I wanted […]

By Noel -- 2 comments