Hulu, video-sharing rival to YouTube, may float
Hulu refuses to comment on claims it is testing the water for a float on Wall Street
US video-sharing website Hulu is testing the waters for a Wall Street stock market flotation this autumn with a target valuation of $2bn (£1.3bn) that could net a useful financial windfall for its owners – News Corporation, NBC Universal, [...]
Google and Yahoo criticise Australia’s ‘heavy-handed’ internet filter plans
US is also ‘concerned’ at plans to block flow of information and experts say state-controlled check will slow browsers
Australia came under fire today from the United States for its proposed internet filtering system, which, if implemented, would be the strictest of any democracy.
A US state department official said that it had raised concerns with [...]
US and China: Tetchy twins
A year ago, China Daily gushed with upbeat epithets about the co-operation between the US and China. The relationship was already effective and smooth on trade, Taiwan and global warning. With two firm multilateralists, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, now in power, it would be positively strengthened and constructive, the official mouthpiece opined.
How different the [...]
Yahoo celebrates as profits rise and stability returns after cuts
After three years of faltering financials, the internet company Yahoo declared that its businesses have ’stabilised’ as deep cost cuts and a strategic overhaul yielded a 244% surge in quarterly profits
After three years of faltering financials, the internet company Yahoo declared that its businesses have “stabilised” as deep cost cuts and a strategic overhaul yielded [...]
David Cameron’s California dreaming | Tristram Hunt
The Tories’ love affair with the Golden State bodes ill for Britain – the homeland of Google and green politics is in fiscal freefall
Timothy Garton Ash’s clinical diagnosis of the crisis facing the state of California was striking in two ways. First, because of the depressing rapidity of the Golden State’s meltdown. And second, because [...]
White House announces its own application store
Should governments promote their nation’s IT companies? With Apps.Gov, the White House yesterday launched a website that does so. It is an online storefront for federal agencies, but it is open to everybody. The store allows people to buy cloud-based IT services in four categories. In a posting on WhiteHouse.gov it is explained, that the [...]
Google Expands AdSense Euro Reporting
Google has expanded the number of European places where Euro reporting is available for AdSense. Users who are in the following locations can now switch to local currency reports to view their earnings in Euros:
- Cyprus
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- San Marino
- Slovenia
- Vatican City
"Once you make this change, any earnings generated from advertisers paying on [...]
LendingTree Says Google’s Getting Into Mortgage Quotes
The company that provides a mortgage product and pricing engine to LendingTree is ready to do the same thing for Google, according to a new lawsuit. Indeed, LendingTree claims to have screenshots proving that Google is about to get into the mortgage quote business.
It’s important to note that LendingTree isn’t suing Google; Mortech, the software [...]
Real-Time Search Engine Attracts $7 Million Funding
OneRiot, one of the real-time search engines whose name we keep hearing again and again has secured $7 million in Series C funding from Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital, the company’s existing venture capital firms.
"This commitment from our existing investors is a big vote of confidence in the realtime search market, OneRiot’s [...]
Google Expands AdSense Euro Reporting
Google has expanded the number of European places where Euro reporting is available for AdSense. Users who are in the following locations can now switch to local currency reports to view their earnings in Euros:
- Cyprus
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Monaco
- San Marino
- Slovenia
- Vatican City
"Once you make this change, any earnings generated from advertisers paying on [...]