August 28th, 2006
According to New.com VCs have started seeing money in Blogs. GigaOm a Technology blog by Om Malik and Huffingtonpost a site operated by "columnist and one-time California gubernatorial candidate" Arianna Huffington have got VC funding.
HuffingtonPost.com is ranked 10th by Technorati and GigaOm ranks 64 in Technorati.
How do you easily see Technorati rankings? Try this:
type: http://www.technorati.com/blogs/http://www.huffingtonpost.com for Huffingtonpost
and […]
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August 28th, 2006
In a quick move to quell public outrage, AOL has fired its Chief Technology Officer and two other employees linked with the shocking release of web search data of more than 65000 AOL users.
In my previous post AOL’s scary experiment & Search Engine Privacy Scandal I had posted the following:
In the first week of August, […]
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August 28th, 2006
India is the focus of Internet leaders Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG).
David Filo visited India around mid August to see his expanding company with about 700 Yahoo! employees in Bangalore. While in India, David Filo reiterated the resolve of Yahoo! to compete in the Search space and win lost ground back from Google:
“Google is strong in […]
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August 28th, 2006
After facing sliding stock prices due to prolonged delays in its new Operating System, Vista, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) looks desperate. It plans to sell Vista at a discount when the new OS launches in November 06 for Business users and in Jan 07 for consumers — to ensure that people move from Windows 2000 and […]
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August 28th, 2006
Azim Premji, Chairman of one of India’s top 3 Tech firms WIPRO is the 6th richest Tech leader in the world. Premji’s networth is $ 13.3 billion according to The Times of India. This places him ahead of Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Azim Premji holds 82% of WIPRO and it is interesting to […]
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August 26th, 2006
Interesting question and 2 answers I found on Google Answers while researching the stock prices of Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) and Google (GOOG).
Wonko is unsure that Google will touch 500 or 550 while answering the question about Google’s stock price:
…If Google maintains its expected growth rate over the next year, can it be reasonably expected to reach […]
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August 21st, 2006
The Observer has published a list of Most Influential Websites in the Internet History. eBay ranks 1. I am surprised to see Google (GOOG) and Yahoo! (YHOO) get ranked 13th and 14th behind younger entrants like You Tube, FriendsReunited, and MySpace.
While You Tube, Napster, Wikipedia and My Space deserve to counted amongst the "Websites that changed the […]
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August 20th, 2006
According to the latest ComScore Data Yahoo! Search is showing a turnaround after losing Search market share to Google (GOOG) for 11 straight months.
Yahoo! Sites posted modest market share gains for the second consecutive month to reach 28.8 percent of U.S. searches, trailing Google Sites, which registered a 43.7 percent share. Google’s share declined 1 percent […]
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August 19th, 2006
Yahoo! Answers the social search engine from Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) has a fun question: Yahoo or Google?
Though the question is fun, tells a lot about a small sample’s perceptions of the two internet giants. Some of the answers go:
Well where are you right now?
Google for search engine. Yahoo to enjoy life.
Google !!
yahoo! by far!!! […]
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August 18th, 2006
The McKinsey Quarterly carries an interview of Mr. Narayan Murthy, the highly respected Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies (INFY), who is about to retire on August 20, 2006.
You will need an McQ account to access this interview. One issue Mr. Murthy addresses in this interview is why he thinks Infosys will continues to […]
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