A federal court has handed Yahoo a victory in a lawsuit stemming from a dispute about pay-per-click ads. The case, questioned whether Yahoo should have allowed a keyword allegedly associated with one company to trigger an ad for a rival. High-end meat retailer Heartbrand Beef, based in Yoakum, Texas, says it's the only U.S. seller of "Akaushi" beef, or beef from cattle that were descended … [Read more...]
FaceBook Suspends It’s New Terms Of Service
Facebook.com has suspended the new Terms Of Service (TOS), it imposed unilaterally on February 4th, without notice, and reported about here, a couple of days ago. Facebook.com, facing a storm of complaints from consumer and privacy groups over the new TOS (you can read our post the other day for exact details) which among other things, gave Facebook.com, the ownership of all content uploaded to … [Read more...]
Owners Of ThePirateBay.org On Criminal Trial
ThePiratebay.org, with an estimated 22 million users, is one of the most visited torrent sites on the Internet. Torrent sites basically list content that is available for download from other sites. As you might guess, much of the listed content involves copyrighted material, like Hollywood movies, music videos, songs, software, video games and other protected works. Sweden brought … [Read more...]
Our Valentines Day Top SnapNames.com Picks
These are our top picks for domains currently in auction or available for backorder. Those in auction will be closing anywhere from today so get in ASAP. You can simply click on the link to backorder: jsa.com hhx.com (in Auction) proxysite.com (In Auction) backshaver.com (in Auction) dedicatedhostingservers.com (in … [Read more...]
Steps to Register a .MX (Mexico) Domain
We thank, Juan Enrique Sánchez, President of NameAction.com for the following explanation on the roll out of the new .MX (Mexico) country code domain. Pre-Registration Period: Only those who have registered the domain under .COM.MX, .NET.MX, .ORG.MX, .EDU.MX, or .GOB.MX before MARCH 1ST 2009. Example: If you have registered store.com.mx you will be able to register … [Read more...]
How Do You Value A Privately Owned Company? If You’re FaceBook.com Differently Depending On Whether You’re Buying Or Selling
If you're trying to sell or buy a private company, one of the hardest thing to figure out is valuation. In the case of FaceBook.com the valuation may depend if your buying or selling. Back in October 2007 when it sold a 1.6% stake of Facebook.com to Microsoft for 240 million, the deal implied that Facebook's stock was worth $35.90 per share and valued the company at $15 billion. However … [Read more...]
Hot Trend In Online Advertising: In-Text Ads
According to Fortune Magazine, the hottest trend in online advertising, is in-text advertising. Many Sites like Fox News, and MSNBC, now place links inside of stories, which look like hyperlinks to references and other sites, but these links go to advertising. Some sites double-underline the in-text ads, to differentiate them from hyperlinks while others have a preview box for users who … [Read more...]