ToysRUs bought the domain name Toys.com at auction for $5.1 million. The 2 companies that participated in the Bidding war were National A-1 (owner of domains such as free.com, boys.com, girls.com, and divorce.com) and ToyRUs To check the Bidding war transcript you could visit DirectNavigation
I had never thought about this but today while browsing the internet and coming across the article written by The Consumerist about the facebook incident it got me thinking. Well the article about facebook incident was that Stephanie Bemister lost her brother. She contacted facebook requesting to delete his profile as he was no longer [...]
Some of us actually just go with the hype and join multiple social networks there by boosting numbers for these networks. But in actually fact do we use all the social networks we join. We like to talk about them more than actually use them. There has been a report published by Brainz which gives [...]
Yes yes i know this could be termed as out dated news. PediaPress established a long term partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation to print your favourite wiki articles as a book.You select the content from your favorite wiki and PediaPress takes care of the rest to ship the book to you. From last week onwards [...]
Google’s social networking platform, Orkut is in discussions with the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket to create brand positioning campaigns and even an IPL profile page for Orkut users. Mahesh Narayanan, senior industry manager, Google says around 10 entities, including FMCG, telecom and movie producers, will be the big-ticket advertisers for Orkut in 2009. The [...]
Apple has announced the public beta of of Safari 4 and claims it to be the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and Windows PCs. The new JavaScript engine, Nitro, runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3, and up to 30 times faster than IE 7. Also Stephen Shankland from CNET [...]
EMI and Capitol Records are filing suit against music search engine SeeqPod. EMI and Capitol are, targeting individual employees and investors, in addition to the company itself, for monetary damages. The suit lists its chief executive, Kasian Franks, and backers Raf Podowski and Shekhar Lodha as individuals. The record companies are seeking billions of dollars [...]
This is not the first time Google and Microsoft have battled with each other on antitrust issues. The Web search engine Google, which recently released its Chrome Web browser, announced that it is applying to be a “third party” in the European proceedings. The European Commission has sent a statement of objections to Microsoft about [...]
Using the Advanced Segmentation beta feature offered by Google Analytics, now websites have the option to filter their data to view “Visits from iPhones.” This feature also works in conjunction with AdWords, so advertisers can better target ads to audiences using the iPhone. Source: Google Analytics Blogs
CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts that that he still wants to pursue some sort of search deal with Yahoo. He is determined to find a way for the two companies to “pool their resources” to take on Google. So lets wait and see what comes out of this Source ZDNet
When i commenced my journey on twitter I would feel really bad not to follow someone especially when they are following me. Social Media services and consultancy is getting to be a complete mess in some instances. So when i commenced using Twitter every day i would login to Twitter and geez my dashboard would [...]
In today’s busy world how many of us actually have our true friends near us when we need them? How many of us take time out to nurture a relationship and grow this into a friendship? I believe friendship is and will always be sacred in my books. Its a bond that you nurture and [...]
Ever day that passes by i aim at doing less and less of the normal corporate business day in and day out tasks.My typical day lately has been writing a post, managing social media campaigns, automating some of my processes, chatting online with friends via IM, facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, sms and of course meeting with [...]
I know it’s not pleasant to think of such a crazy thought but all of us plan our offline will, we all take life insurance, but we don’t think about the impact our social profiles would have on our next generation. Yesterday was a sad day for me as one of my friend’s dad passed [...]
Today I attended an amazing meeting which was focused around networking and man people spoke about their business experiences. We each had to speak about how we handled objections or how we dealt with a situation where we may have been screwed over for a reason. If you are like me then the first thing [...]
