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Google to scan really old newspapers

by John Shinal, September 8, 2008 | Comments (1)

Search giant will share ad revenue, may be way to generate revenue for dying papers

Perhaps Google is feeling guilty for helping to accelerate the death sprial of a once-powerful industry that many have viewed as a key component of a healthy democracy. Or, more likely, it sees a way to make more money by putting old, buried, off-line content onto the Web and selling ads next to it. That's what it will now do ...

Arrington interviews Chris DeWolfe at TC50

by John Shinal, September 8, 2008 | Comments

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MySpace CEO talks about upcoming revenue, music streaming

TechCrunch honcho Michael Arrington interviewed MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe on Monday and managed to wring some good details out of him about revenue, ad distribution and the social site's upcoming live music streaming service.When it came to rumors that DeWolfe was dating Paris Hilton, however, he remained tight-lipped. Highlights: MySpace is generating close to $100 million in ad revenue, thanks ...

Conway: the next billion-dollar market online

by John Shinal, September 8, 2008 | Comments (2)

Angel investor tells TechCrunch 50 audience product placement will be huge

Well-known angel investor Ron Conway has seen the new Internet pot of gold, and it will be driven by bottles of Vitamin Water and other products placed inside Web video content."There's a new multi-billion dollar market developing before our eyes, and it's product placement," Conway told the audience at the TechCrunch 50 conference. One of the most prolific and successful ...

Apple versus Google in the mobile realm

by John Shinal, September 5, 2008 | Comments

Chrome could give search giant full platform to rival iPhone

If there's one thing that the open source model has shown, it's that no one one company can create innovative software as fast the collective developer community. Microsoft has been learning this the hard way as Firefox has eaten away browser market share from Internet Explorer. We tend to think of open source as being a threat to slow, plodding ...

Adify's Russ Fradin on Internet privacy

by John Shinal, September 4, 2008 | Comments

Debate over data collection should be about more than opt-in versus opt-out

When the U.S. Congress held its first hearings on Internet privacy in July, some of the harshest questioning was directed at the CEO of NebuAd, whose technology helps cable companies and other service providers track user's Web surfing. Russ Fradin of Adify, now part of Cox Enterprises, thinks the uproar of so-called deep-packet inspection technologies is due in part to ...

Chrome may speed a post-Windows, mobile world

by John Shinal, September 3, 2008 | Comments

Cloud computing on untethered devices will not be dominated by Microsoft

It's getting harder to keep track of how many different ways that Google and others are working to upend the Windows-centric PC world. First there was the open-source movement, with the promise of faster, better software development that can out-innovate the efforts of any single company. Then there was SaaS, and Marc Benioff's mantra of the end of shrink-wrapped software. ...

How open will initial Android Marketplace be?

by John Shinal, August 28, 2008 | Comments

Google may have to risk looser security to differentiate platform from iPhone Apps Store

The Android application marketplace that Google first hinted at last year is moving forward, and may be ready by the time the first Android-ready phone goes live on T-Mobile's network later this year.It will be interesting to see whether Google runs the market with a firm hand or lets it grow wild like a Turkish bazaar.All the talk so far ...

Tapulous exec rift sign of bigger question

by John Shinal, August 27, 2008 | Comments

If TV or social networks are the model, entertainment apps will dominate mobile utility

What will iPhone users want more of -- entertainment or utility? That seems to have been the question that led to the ouster of Mike Lee, co-founder and chief software architect of Tapulous.In a statement, Lee said he voiced concerns of his design and engineering team over the direction of the company's development as a matter of honor. For that, ...

Adify's Fradin: brand CPMs holding steady

by John Shinal, August 26, 2008 | Comments

Now part of Cox, Adify providing ad platform for 140 networks

While some reports have warned of a downturn in Web ad spending, well-known publishers with quality sites are seeing their brand advertising rates hold steady.That's the take of Russ Fradin of Adify, which has 140 networks around the world using its ad-network technology platform. On those vertical networks, Adify has "seen CPMs for branded content stay remarkably constant in the ...

Android to ride in iPhone's wake

by John Shinal, August 18, 2008 | Comments

Google's open-source platform to get in game, but HTC and T-Mobile aren't Dream partners

Years from now, the wireless industry will look back on 2008 as "The Year that Everything Changed."Apple's Apps Store and new iPhone might have been enough to earn this year that moniker.But now comes the news that Google's Android platform is going from being a promise on the horizon to a mobile OS on a real phone.With the software developer ...

YouTube testing mobile video ads

by John Shinal, August 18, 2008 | Comments

Move follows expanded mobile platform, Schmidt's comments that mobile will be huge

Now we know why Google CEO Eric Schmidt couldn't resist telling CNBC's Jim Cramer last week that his company's opportunity from mobile ads will be even bigger than the Web market it's currently addressing. YouTube said on a blog posting today that it's begun testing mobile video ads in the U.S. and Japan.This follows the sites revamped mobile interface earlier ...

Daily usage headed down as Apps Store grows

by John Shinal, August 15, 2008 | Comments

iPhone boredom or expected trend? Less than one in five downloaded apps may be used daily

No doubt people are downloading more apps than ever from the iPhone store.But as the number of downloads soars past 60 million, the percentage of those that are used daily continues to slide.That's according to Greg Yardley, CEO of PinchMedia, a New York startup which provides ad softawe and analytics tools for iPhone developers. Whereas 20% of the Pinch Media-equipped ...

Mr. Jobs, tear down this phone!

by John Shinal, August 14, 2008 | Comments

Mounting evidence of 3G reception problems points to iPhone, not networks

Two people I wouldn't want to be this week: the product engineer at Apple who signed off on the iPhone's 3G chipset and software, and that person's counterpart at chip maker Infineon. Can you imagine the tenor of the call from the mercurial Steve Jobs to the Apple guy?"Yeah, __________, this is Steve Jobs. I'm gonna need you to come ...

Exits mean major holes in Facebook exec team

by John Shinal, August 13, 2008 | Comments

	Zuckerberg will need more engineering help, and fast The departure of Benjamin Ling from Facebook, just as developers are starting to build apps for the social network's revamped platform, is a blow for the company no matter how Facebook tries to spin it. Ling, who came from Google less than a year ago, said he's leaving to pursue a great opportunity. But the fact is he obviously saw ...
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Internet privacy law should be opt in

by John Shinal, August 12, 2008 | Comments

Fight in Congress next year will be key for behavioral targeting

News that a key member of the U.S. Congress intends to introduce legislation designed to rein in behavioral targeting suggests that 2009 will be the year that defines advertising practices on the Web.Comments by Ed Markey that any such legislation should require an opt-in provision means the fight that occurred over Facebook's Beacon program will move to the larger Internet.Markey ...

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