Internet Companies (82 Articles)

We are deeply involved with many different internet companies. Whether it be companies that we do business with or companies whose products we use on a daily basis, these are some of the most crucial and important Internet companies in our life.

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Facebook Turns 10

Facebook turned 10 years old earlier today - we take a look at some of the company's ups and downs.

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Google Goes Down, Global Internet Traffic Drops By 40%

Google went down for five minutes on Friday afternoon, causing global Internet traffic to drop by 40%.

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Google Reveals The Top Searches of 2012

Google has revealed the top searches of 2012. Which searches led the list? Who were the most searched for people?

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The Incredible Disappearing Facebook

Facebook continues to plummet after their hotly anticipated IPO back in May - when will it stop?

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Facebook Hits All-Time Low After Releasing First Earnings Report As Publicly Traded Company

Facebook has hit an all-time low after reporting their first earnings report as a publicly traded company. Is Facebook in trouble?

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Google's Big Bet on YouTube Is Paying Off

Youtube's traffic and revenues continue to grow, and Google's acquisition of the company is looked pretty smart nearly six years after the transaction.

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Marissa Mayer In As Yahoo! CEO; Fifth Time's The Charm For Company?

Marissa Mayer, formerly of Google, has been named the new CEO of Yahoo! Does she have the stuff to turn the company around?

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Groupon Now Worth Less Than $6 Billion

Groupon is now worth less than what Google offered for the company back in November of 2010.

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Facebook Continues to Crater

Facebook continues to crater as tens of billions of dollars in market cap have been erased in just a couple of weeks.

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Dud: Facebook Closes Just Above IPO Price

Facebook turned in an underwhelming performance earlier today, barely closing above its IPO price.

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"Weaker Than Expected" Demand For Facebook IPO?

Say it ain't so! Slackened demand from institutional investors may put a damper on Facebook's upcoming initial public offering.

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Amazon Turns Up the Heat on Brick and Mortar Stores

Amazon's new Price Check Application Promotion has some brick and mortar retailers steaming mad. Justified?

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Would You Buy Facebook At a Valuation of $100 Billion?

Facebook will have a valuation of roughly $100 billion when it launches its initial public offering in 2012. Is it worth the money?

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Groupon Goes Public; Now Worth Over $17 Billion

Groupon went public earlier today and now has a valuation of approximately 17 billion. Is the company overvalued?

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The $6 Billion Mistake?

Did Groupon make the mistake of a lifetime when they turned down $6 billion from Google?

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Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo!

Carol Bartz Fired - earlier tonight, Carol Bartz was fired as President and CEO of Yahoo!

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Report: Myspace To Be Sold for $30-$35 Million

According to various reports, News Corp. is set to take a massive loss on their Myspace investment.

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The Big One: Facebook Prepping for Massive IPO Next Year

Facebook is preparing for a hotly anticipated IPO early next year that is expected to value the company at around $100 billion.

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Groupon - A $25 Billion Company?

Groupon $25 Billion Valuation - is the local deals site Groupon really worth $25 billion, or have things just gotten totally out of hand?

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Is Facebook Worth $10 Billion Dollars?

DST (Digital Sky Technologies) announced a $200 million dollar investment in Facebook earlier today that will give the company a valuation of $10 billion dollars. Is Facebook worth that much money?

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Online Broker Reviews

A list of the top online stock brokers in the world - a list that includes the likes of Thinkorswim, Interactive Brokers and Questrade.com. Who are the best brokers? Who are the top-rated brokers?

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Interactive Brokers Review

Review of Interactive Brokers, which is one of the most popular online brokerages in the world due to their rock-bottom commissions and extremely customizable software package.

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eBay, Apple, Shopzilla and CyberMonday.com Big Winners on "Cyber Monday"

Consumers relied on steep discounts in order to open their wallets on Cyber Monday, the kick-off of the online shopping season.

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Carl Icahn Boosts Stake in Yahoo! to 5.5%

Carl Icahn announced earlier this week that he had increased his stake in Yahoo! Is the naming of a new CEO next for the company?

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Convert2Media Review

Review of Convert2Media.com, the popular full-service affiliate advertising network that was started by Ralph "Ruck" Ruckman.

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Marketleverage Review

Review of Marketleverage.com, the rapidly growing affiliate marketing company that offers a multitude of various CPA offers.

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Ragingbull.com Relaunches In Midst of Crippling Market Meltdown

Ragingbull.com, a product of the 1990s Internet Boom, relaunched their site on Monday in the midst of a massive market meltdown.

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How Pissed Off Are Yahoo Shareholders Right Now?

Disgruntled Yahoo shareholders are growing increasingly angry in the wake of the stock's rapid decline.

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Some Older Google Penalties Expiring?

I've noticed this weekend that a number of our LONG penalized sites have suddenly...

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Adsense Arbitrage - What is It, and Why Doesn't Google Like It?

First off, what is "arbitrage"?

According to Wikipedia, arbitrage is "the practice of tak...

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Google Cracking Down on Non-Compliant Adsense Sites?

Jennifer Slegg at Jensense.com commented in a June 24th post ...

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Wallstreet.com Up For Sale - Final Sale Price May Shatter Records

Are you in the market for an ultra-premium domain name? Do you have $5 - $10 million dollars burning...

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Pressure Building on Yahoo and Jerry Yang

If you thought that you had seen the end of the Yahoo / Microsoft saga, think again.

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Google Having Trouble Monetizing Bigger Internet Properties

When Google bought Youtube for a staggering $1.65 billion dollars, most people just figured that Goo...

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Where To Now for Yahoo?

Unless you have been living under a rock somewhere, you have probably heard that Microsoft pulled ou...

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Google Rises to the Heavens After Posting Strong Q1 2008 Earnings

There was a great deal of hand-wringing before Google announced its Q1 2008 earnings on Thursday aft...

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My Prediction on the Microsoft / Yahoo Deal

This weekend, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, fired off a missive to the members of the board of Ya...

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New Version of Yahoo Buzz to Compete with Digg?

According to Techcrunch, Yahoo will be launching their Yahoo Buzz service sometime on Monday. Techcr...

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HotorNot.com Sells for $20 Million to Avid Life Media

The recent sale of Hotornot.com to a Canadian investor group called "Avid Life Media" recently just ...

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A Microsoft / Yahoo Merger Would Only Mean Good Things for the Search Engine Industry Over Time

Google, which normally plays it fairly close to the vest, went absolutely wild this past weekend, st...

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Will There Be a Bidding War For Yahoo Now?

Microsoft fired a shot heard around the world late last week when they announced that they had plans...

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The Impact of Microsoft's Bid for Yahoo

What a double whammy of news for the search engine world.

First, Google announced aft...

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Can Google Possibly Maintain Its Earnings Growth And Continue To Post Better Than Expected Earnings Reports Every Quarter?

With Google reporting their Q4 2007 earnings tonight, you have to start to wonder when the Google ro...

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There is Only One Way to Stop Google: A Government Mandated Break-Up

There is only one way to stop Google in the future. Microsoft won't stop them. Yahoo won't stop them...

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The Benefits of Getting Into Google News

Getting into Google News is a big deal. If you get one of your sites into Google News, it probably m...

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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Settle with Department of Justice for "Promoting Online Gambling"

The Department of Justice yesterday announced that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo had all agreed to set...

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Digg.com On the Block for $300 Million?

have released their 20...

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Search Engine Market Share Data for November - Google Continues to Rise

Hitwise just released their search engine market share data for November, and to nobody's surprise, ...

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Does Privacy Matter to You When You Are Using a Search Engine?

Ask.com is announcing the release of a new product on Tuesday that will be called "AskEraser."
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Almost 64% of Facebook is Female

I came across some Facebook users stats today on Techcrunch that quite surprised me to be honest. As...

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Payperpost Gets Pissed at Google

Payperpost has been on the attack the last few days, and the...

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October Search Engine Market Share: Google Continues to Dominate

It's Google's world, and we are all just living in it.

Google continues to dominate t...

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Google to Make Adsense Ads Less Clickable

Google is apparently going ahead with plans to make their Adsense ads less "clickable."


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Google Introduces Two Updates to Site Targeting

Google has added a couple of changes to their "site targeting" feature that will make "site targetin...

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Google Is Worth Every Cent of its $741.79 Share Price

$231.54 Billion dollars? $741.79 per share?

Most people look at those numbers and the...

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A Little More on the Pagerank Situation

I have seen some people posting in the blog world about how unfair this situation with the page rank...

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The Way That Some People Are Spinning This Google Pagerank Situation is Ridiculous

It's pretty funny to me how people in the blogosphere are spinning their Pagerank situation with Goo...

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Kudos to Google For Bringing the Hammer Down on Some Sites and Networks

For those of you who don't know, Google brought their virtual hammer down on a number of sites and n...

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Microsoft Finally Wins a Battle with Google

There is no secret to the fact that Google has been putting the boots to Microsoft over the past 3-4...

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The Digg Effect

Well after being in this Internet game for years, my partner and I had our first full-fledged Digg.c...

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Yahoo Search Marketing Finally Announces Site Exclusions

I never thought that there would be a day when I actually thought that I would use Yahoo Search Mark...

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How to Effectively Use Google's Content Network to Your Advantage

When we first started out doing PPC, everyone that I talked to said: don't use the content network w...

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Google Needs to Stop Displaying Pagerank Data

In my opinion, way too much emphasis is put on the page rank of a site. We own low...

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How Much Money Does Google Make from Its Adsense Partners?

If you are involved in the Google Adsense program, you probably know by now that Google doesn't disc...

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Business.com Is Sold for $345 Million Dollars

I guess people can finally lay off of Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton. They were the two people that di...

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Google's Stock Is Getting Close to Its Tipping Point

There is a pretty common phenomenon that takes place with ultra-hot, ultra fast growing tech stocks....

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Pownce Launches, Creates Negative Buzz



The blogosphere was buzzing yesterday after
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Is Business.com Worth 400 Million Dollars?



I remember, back in the first web boom, when Business.com was on the m...

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My Experiences with Adbrite

Adbrite. According to their website, they serve over 614 million impressions per day across almost 3...

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Succeeding In Google Adwords: Keeping it Small

If you do affiliate marketing in conjunction with PPC advertising, it can be tempting when you first...

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Terry Semel Out; What Now for Yahoo?

A few weeks ago, I was speaking with a friend about Yahoo! This is a company with so much potenti...

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Sorry Overture, We Can't Do Business with You Anymore

Overture's steadfast refusal to do ANYTHING about the bunk "partner site" clicks that they serve has...

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Increasing Your ROI At Overture

Overture is a funny beast.

I have found that the traffic that actually comes from the...

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The Day That Google Started the Web Boom 2.0

When the first web boom came around, there was just so much promise and optimism. People were able t...

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Google's Purchase of Doubleclick Has Some Far Reaching Implications

Google's $3 billion+ purchase of Doubleclick will have a pretty big impact on the Web economy. Do...

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Digg Traffic Versus Google Traffic - Which One Converts Better?

Any web marketer that utilizes social bookmarking as a way of driving traffic to their site has a...

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Adwords Implements Two Changes to How Ads Are Displayed

You may have noticed a couple of days ago that when you search Google, you will notice a change i...

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Google Adsense Updates The Look of Their Advertisements

After extensive testing (Google would obviously not roll out such an important change without doing ...

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Google Adwords vs. MSN Adcenter vs. Yahoo Search Marketing - The Pros and Cons of All Three

Google Adwords

Pros - by far the most traffic of any of the three big sea...

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Google Paid Out $976 Million Dollars to Adsense Partners in Q4 (Gimme, Gimme)

I was just looking over Google's Q4 earnings report and I noticed that Google paid out an enormou...

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