According to reports, Microsoft is ready to start expanding its AdCenter engine to allow at least some publishers to include contextual advertising from Microsoft on their site.
Microsoft is reportedly engaged in a pilot program that allows smaller publishers to use contextual advertising from Microsoft, putting it potentially in competition with Google’s AdSense and Yahoo’s publisher […]

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Accroding to a report by ComScore today, Microsoft expanded its share of the U.S. search market in June, while Google Inc. had a small decline.
ComScore’s June search report concluded that of a total of 11.5 billion searches conducted in the U.S. during the month, 61.5 percent were conducted on Google sites, compared with 61.8 percent […]

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Google annouced Friday that it signed an agreement with Rambler Media Ltd. to buy its Russian contextual ad service ZAO Begun for $140 million.
Google said the deal is part of its moves to improve service for users, partners and advertisers in Russia, which has a fast-growing digital advertising market.
The purchase will enable advertisers to advertise […]

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As we reported earlier, Google released its earnings yesterday.
According to the earning report it seems not that  International markets now account for more than half Google’s business.
According to Google:
“””Revenues from outside of the United States totaled $2.80 billion, representing 52% of total revenues in the second quarter of 2008, compared to 48% in the second […]

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Citigroup reported its earnings (or lack thereof) today  posting a $2.5 billion second-quarter loss.
However the loss was smaller than expected and Citi is up over 10% today on the news
The nation’s biggest banking company by assets lost the equivalent of 54 cents per share in the April-June period. In the same timeframe last year, the […]

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The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) held “its seventh educational forum on Brand Abuses and Internet Governance” yesterday in New York City.
According to their press release:
“”””With the domain name space often stacked against those that contribute the most to the development of the Internet, CADNA is looking to change the game, get more voices […]

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Active Internet of Lake Worth, Florida is selling off  Audio.org and Video.org.
Active Internet registered the domains more than eleven years ago.
Over the years Active Internet says it has received more than five hundred unsolicited offers for the names.
According to the owner, Video.org gets more than 3,500 unique (type-in) visitors a month.
Click Medium is representing Active […]

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Google Shares fell $40 a share after hours as it reported per-share earnings that missed Wall Street expectations.
CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged the economic climate is “challenging.”
The Mountain View, Calif., company reported revenue, excluding commissions paid to marketing partners that were in line with Wall Street estimates, as income rose 35%,  as its, but its per- […]

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BigBangNames.com is auctioning off what they are calling “a $1 million e-commerce site for only $1,000″
According to the press release, Payhalf.com is an online consumer electronics retailer that invested over $2.5 million before it ran out of cash. The sale includes the high value domain name portfolio, appraised as high as $500,000, and Payhalf.com, technology […]

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I just downloaded the new verision of FireFox 3.0 web browser which features the new “Awesome Bar” which Mozilla says is a new way of using the address bar on top of the browser to navigate the internet taking into account your bookmarks and viewing history.  Mozilla says that the “Awesome Bar” basically turns the […]

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