Panasonic and Google are developing televisions that will display Internet content such as photos and videos. The televisions, which are set to be released this spring, will allow users to directly browse and access videos from YouTube and view Picasa Web Albums, a free online photo-sharing service from Google. … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Superbowl Commerical rated 5th sleaziest by MSNBC
MSBNC released it's top ten list of the "sleaziest super bowl ads of all time". Coming in 5th was GoDaddy.com, for it's 2005 Commerical entitled "proceedings". You can view the entire top ten here. … [Read more...]
Yahoo.com Hires CFO; Plan to Lay off’s 1,000 People
As we disucssed last week Yahoo.com confirmed today that it will in fact lay off a portion of its workforce, but instead of being several hundred people, it will lay off approximately 1,000 workers, representing a 7 percent reduction in its 14,300-employee work force Yahoo shares dropped $2.13, or more than 10 percent, in extended trading Tuesday after finishing the regular session at $20.81, … [Read more...]
Yahoo 4Q Earnings Fall Over 23 Percent
Online search engine operator Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit declined a bit more than 23 percent as higher operating expenses overshadowed an increase in revenue. 4th fourth net earnings were $205.7 million, or 15 cents a share, down from $268.7 million, or 19 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Excluding items, the company posted an adjusted profit of $280 … [Read more...]
ICANN Ends Domain Tasting
According to the lextext blog the ICANN board passed a resolution that will impose ICANN per name fee on all domain registration whether or not they are deleted within the first five days. Although no clear date was set for the imposition of the fees it is generally believed that it will take place on July 1, 2008 or sooner Here is the text of the resolution: Here's the text of the … [Read more...]
Goodbye TrafficClub.com: All Customers Moved to DomainSponsor.com
Not surprisingly Moniker.com announced today that they were migrating all of the customers of TrafficClub.com to DomainSponsor.com Oversee.net which owns DomainSponsor acquired moniker.com a couple of weeks ago, Moniker.com, which owns trafficclub.com, parking program was using a skenzo feed and a domainsponsor feed prior to the acquisition. Immediately after the acquisition skenzo.com … [Read more...]
Are Newspapers just Landing Pages with Content???
In my endless quest to find you, my readers, the most relevant information on domain names and the media industry, we hopped a flight from LA after the DomainFest show, and went to Hawaii for a few days. Did you know that the largest newspaper in terms of circulation in the state of Hawaii is called the The Honolulu Advertiser? I thought what a great name for a newspaper. … [Read more...]