Google versus Newspapers - battle continues Newspapers have blamed Google for their woes, and Google, in turn, has helped remind newspapers that they did a pretty good job of digging their own grave.The latest haymaker in this heavy weight punch up is from Chief Economist Hal Varian, in a speech to the FTC today. Below, the big takeaways from Varian?s remarks, which are drawn from a longer post People spend more time brushing their ... [more]
Apple at the Oscars The glamour, dresses and feigned looks of surprise returned on Sunday evening with the Oscars holding their annual movie jamboree. Alongside the shoes, dresses and hairstyles sat a number of businesses paying top dollar for advertising space. One such company was Apple who choose the awards ceremony as its first external showcase for the new iPad. Sadly, unlike many historic Apple ads in the past ... [more]
Big news: social is bigger than search Facebook is now the top source of traffic for major news and entertainment portals such as Yahoo and MSN, according to traffic analysis firm Compete, and is ?among the leaders? for other sites as well.Although far from conclusive, this is just another sign of how the ?social web? is becoming an increasingly dominant force in terms of driving traffic flows on the Internet ? and that in turn makes ... [more]