Archive for March 26th, 2008

A comparison of Facebook (Left) and LinkedIn's (Right) features

Facebook is launching a pretty cool new feature. It’s called “People You May Know” and it shows exactly what you would think it does…people that you may know, based on people that you are friends with.

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The trend is clear–the best bait for well-fed Googlers, especially ones who joined after the company’s 2004 IPO, is another hot pre-IPO company. And Facebook is that company.

The latest Googler to jump to Facebook is Ethan Beard. Formerly director of social media at the search giant, he will …

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Updated at 4:25 p.m. PDT with more detail and context.

The latest paid-click figures for Google were up only 3.1 percent in February from a year earlier, prompting a 2.9 percent drop in Google’s stock, according to Reuters.

Last month when ComScore released the paid-click …

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A comparison of Facebook (Left) and LinkedIn's (Right) features

Facebook is launching a pretty cool new feature. It’s called “People You May Know” and it shows exactly what you would think it does…people that you might know, based on people that you’re friends with.

Just …

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Yahoo defections aren’t news. But people trying to get hired there? Stop the presses!

That’s the gist of this blog entry at headhunter firm BINC.

BINC Chief Executive Boris Epstein writes:

“So it’s obviously no surprise that Yahoo is in trouble right now and people are leaving …

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You have to hand it to corporate raider Carl Icahn: He sure knows how to stir it up.

Wednesday morning, ailing Motorola announced that it will split into two companies next year. The news doesn’t come as a shock to the many who believed something dramatic had to be …

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Netflix has extended an apology, in the form of a discount, to customers in the wake of an 11-hour site outage.

On Monday, the Web’s leading movie-rental service suffered its second extended outage in the past nine months. This time, the glitch led to customers receiving their DVDs a …

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Motorola said Wednesday it plans to split off its handset business, but the move might just be a last attempt to pretty up the failing business unit to make it more attractive to potential buyers.

Since Motorola stated in January that it was considering “options” for its handset business, there’…

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Updated 2:55 p.m. PST with January and year-ago figures for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Google’s market share for Web search in the U.S. rose in February to 58.7 percent, up from January and the same period a year ago, while Yahoo’s, at 17.6 …

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Bubble Motion, a provider of text messaging-for-voice technology, has raised $14 million in a second round of funding from Sequoia Capital, Comcast Interactive Capital, and NCD Investors, the company stated Wednesday.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company, which was founded in 2003, had previously raised $10 million from Sequoia, an …

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