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To be a Baidu shareholder must be a wonderful thing. The Chinese company’s stock went up yet again today and was at $608.50 when the closing bell rang, making this the first time it’s ever ended a trading day above $600.
Here are a couple other numbers sure to make other investors jealous: shares of Baidu [...]
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AOL said today it is launching Patch.org, a charitable foundation to support access to local news and information in underserved communities.
Patch.org will partner with community foundations and other organizations to launch sites and bring local news and information to communities that lack adequate news media and online local information.
For each of the sites launched via [...]
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Google introduced a new security feature for Gmail today. It notifies the user when a suspicious log-in activity is detected on their account. This notification will come in the form of a message saying “”Warning: We believe your account was last accessed from…” along with the geographic region that Google can best associate with the [...]
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A company that has over 40 million domain names under its management – and is perhaps better known for controversial ads featuring busty women – has effectively followed Google’s lead in China. GoDaddy will stop registering domain names in the country.
Ellen Nakashima reported this afternoon that GoDaddy’s taken this step “in response to intrusive new [...]
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Justin Bieber’s manager was arrested today, and WebProNews talked to his lawyer as they awaited arraignment.
Back in November, the ever-popular Justin Bieber was scheduled to have an autograph signing in a Long Island mall. It didn’t quite go as planned, and they got about three times as many people to show up as expected, and [...]
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Justin Bieber’s Manager Arrested for Not Tweeting Quickly Enough
This is the second post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, Neal Mohan looks at how new technology can power creativity in the years ahead – Ed.
Imagine you own a popular coffee chain in Denver that you want to promote. On Monday afternoon, it’s warm and 80 degrees in the city. [...]
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AT&T has launched a new music application that combines a number of different apps into one multifaceted application.
The AT&T Music application is available on three feature phones including the LG Xenon, Samsung Solstice and Samsung Impression. The company said it plans to make the service available as a download on additional handsets soon and will [...]
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Earlier this month we added stars in search so that you can easily mark and rediscover your favorite websites. Today we’re debuting lists in Google Bookmarks, an experimental new feature that helps you easily share those sites with friends.
Bookmarks are a great way to keep track of your favorite content across the web and we [...]
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Not everybody is a fan of the increasingly personalized search results they get from Google. Some criticize them as a way for Google to give advertisers reasons to rely on PPC as opposed to the less predictable organic results, and others just find it disruptive to relevance.
In terms of relevance, I think it can work [...]
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It’s no secret that Google and Microsoft are in heavy competition in the enterprise application space. This competition may extend into a relatively new sub-category of this space – internal microblogging. Think Twitter, just for within the enterprise.
Now, Google Buzz isn’t exactly a Twitter clone, but you probably don’t have to look too far to [...]
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The WordPress repository contains quite a few plug-ins that can automatically translate your blog’s content into multiple languages. Some of them will even store a copy of the translated text locally so subsequent requests for translated content are served directly from your blog.
Such plug-ins are popular for an obvious reason – they make your site [...]
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Some WordPress Plug-ins for Language Translation are Best Avoided
Something fishy is going on. If you search for “Google executives” on an English-language version of Google, you may get a link to http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html, which would be Google’s page where it has profiles for its executives (go figure). However, you may also notice that the text appears in Chinese characters.
As you probably know by now, [...]
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Behaviorally-targeted advertising is more than twice as effective at converting users who click on the ads into buyers (6.8% conversion vs.2.8% for run-of-network ads) according to a new study by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI).
Based on proprietary data from twelve major ad networks, the study found in 2009, behaviorally-targeted advertising pulled in an average of [...]
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Last night, your humble author watched an episode of The X-Files in which a sick boy got a new liver. The twist was this: the boy got a new liver after a man who built Rube Goldberg machines survived four attempts on his life and won the lottery. And a new set of reports known [...]
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The other day, Google announced that it would be redirecting its Chinese language search engine at Google.cn to Google.com.hk, the company’s Hong Kong site, where they would now censor search results. That does not mean, however, that Google has ceased operations in China entirely.
The company has now announced that it intends to continue research and [...]
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