In recent days, AOL paid $315 million for the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites. Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington will assume the role of president and editor in chief of the Huffington Post Media Group within AOL. She, along with investor and well known communications executive Kenneth Lerer,
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In recent days, Google accused Bing of copying its search results, which has set off yet another Microsoft versus Google debate. Bing executive Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, blogged about the accusation, remarking that, “We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop.” In the same
Android is currently the top smartphone platform worldwide, according to new data from Canalys analysts. Android has taken the top spot from Nokia. In the fourth quarter of 2010, there were nearly 33 million shipments of Android-based smartphones, versus 31 million shipments of phones running Nokia’s Symbian platform. However, these rankings are based on handset
Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer and head of Google’s Webspam team, recently gave an update in his blog on his search engine spam post. A recent post of his stated that “we’re evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content
Royal Deer Design, a web design company based in New York City, recently unveiled its latest techno- savvy website, www.smartstyleshops.com. The team at Royal Deer Design created the site for the highly successful media and fashion industry executive, Rahel Cete. The site, which has a custom design and functionality, features a custom CMS control panel
Verizon will now offer those who purchase an iPhone a $30 unlimited data plan. Verizon COO Lowell McAdam explained that not offering an unlimited plan would prevent customers who might otherwise switch from AT&T from doing so. Anticipation that Verizon would soon offer the iPhone kept sales down in the fourth quarter of 2010, he
Google has, and continues, to take a proactive approach toward spam. According to a post on Google’s official blog on Friday by Matt Cutts, Google’s search quality is presently “better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness.” Cutts also reminded users of the following principles which apply to Google search
A net revenue of $6.4 billion and $8.75 a share were recently reported by Google. There are also some major leadership changes slated to take place. Effective April 4th, Google Co-Founder Larry Page will assume responsibility for Google’s day-to-day operations as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin will turn his attention to strategic
Today, Amazon, America’s largest online retailer, announced it acquired Lovefilm, one of the leading European movie rental services. Prior to the acquisition, Amazon owned a minority share of the company. Exact details of the sale were not disclosed, but reports estimate the value to be between $200 and $270 million. Lovefilm offers similar services to
