Trumpet.com appears to be back up on the auction block at NameJet.com The domain which sold for $35,000 at TRAFFIC New York, last September, started with a reserve price of zero. Already 134 people have backordered the domain, although it does not appear to be a "expired" or dropped domain" as it currently has an expiration date of July 2015. So it appears to be a private sale through … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2009
9 Months, 1 Billion Downloads
Its official, in just nine months after launching the revolutionary Apple App Store, the 1 billion downloads mark has been met. Connor Mulcahey, a thirteen year old from Weston, CT, downloaded the one billionth app, Bump, a free contact swapping app created by Bump Technologies. The teenager became the grand prize winner of Apple’s one billion app countdown contest and will receive a $10,000 … [Read more...]
Search Engine Accussed of Blocking Natural Search Results Of An Advertiser Who Cut Their PPC Spending
What if a search engine blocked a company who cut back its PPC spending, from appearing in non-paid search results? That is exactly what Renren Information Services is accusing Baidu.com, China's leading search engine, of. Renren says that Baidu.com basically blackballed the site, after the company dramatically lowered its PPC spending with Baidu Renren is suing Baidu for the equivalent … [Read more...]
Yahoo Shutting Down GeoCities: Another $4.6 Billion Down The Drain
Yahoo announced today that it is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages for consumers. Yahoo acquired GeoCities in 1999, in a stock deal valued at roughly $4.6 billion. A posting on a Yahoo Help page for GeoCities Thursday said the service was no longer accepting new customers and that it will be closing later this year, with more details about how individuals … [Read more...]
Microsoft Profit Down 32%: Revenues Down More Than Expected
Microsoft reported earnings today and the news was not good. Microsoft's net income fell 32% to $2.98 billion, or 33 cents per share, for the quarter ended March 31. Revenue fell 6% to $13.7 billion, below most analysts' expectations of $14.1 billion. Microsoft said weakness in the global PC and server markets negatively impacted its results. "While market conditions remained weak … [Read more...]
Our Pick’s & Pan’s At The AfterMarket Geo Auction
Aftermarket is holding a live auction of Domains as part of the GeoDomain Expo 2009. The auction starts on Saturday at 6:00 PST, however bidding has already started online on DomainTools. At the time of this post almost 30% of the domain already have met the reserve price. As we often do, we are looking at the auction using Esitbot, not to put a value on the domains as much as just … [Read more...]
Mac Users: Now There Is A Virus Just For You
Symantec, which makes Norton antivirus software, has identified the first harmful computer program to strike specifically at Mac's. This Trojan horse program, dubbed the "iBotnet," has infected only a few thousand Mac machines, but it represents a step in the evolution of malicious computer software attack Apple's which have to date been thought to be immune from viruses. The iBotnet is a … [Read more...]