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E-books from Amazon, Google and Apple rewrite reading and retailing rules

eBrandz Editor — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:21:27 +0000

The e-book wave is fast sweeping bricks & mortar book retailing industry. Advent of e-bookstores helping readers access millions of popular titles from their e-reader devices is evaporating the competitive advantage the world’s biggest book chains have enjoyed over the years.

The digital revolution hits bookstores, literally!

Barnes & Noble, which offers a wide selection of over 150,000 titles, is a classic example of this phenomenon. The book chain is facing severe pressure from innovative online booksellers. The company has continued to dominate bookstore-retailing format since it revolutionized publishing business by offering discount hardcover bestsellers in the 1970s. Today it has close to 1,400 stores, comprising more than 700 superstores. Things are changing fast, though!

This is not an isolated case. Many of music, book, and video retailers are struggling to run their businesses profitably at a time when music, movies and other content can easily be downloaded to digital devices directly.

The digital revolution, which has already shaken the media world, is now clearly rewriting the rules of the book selling business. It is fast upending the niche players that have dominated the scene for decades.

Some believe that bookstores will follow the way of several music stores that shut shop en masse once users could download music of their choice digitally. Mapping the trend, Jeffrey Trachtenberg writes in The Wall Street Journal:

“Electronic books are still in their infancy, comprising an estimated 3% to 5% of the market today. But they are fast accelerating the decline of physical books, forcing retailers, publishers, authors and agents to reinvent their business models or be painfully crippled.”

Internet throws a big challenge to brick & mortar retailers

According to market observers, digital books will soon consume roughly 25% of total unit sales, on the conservative side. If one adds another 20% to 25% of units bought online, nearly half of the unit sales will be happening on the Internet.

In essence, rapid decrease in physical sales of books is becoming a problematic scenario for today’s established brick & mortar retailers. Why is it so? The reasons are obvious.

Essentially, e-books don’t need paper, printing facilities, large storage space, or logistics services. They cost less than half the price of any hardcover book.

Google jumps onto the e-book bandwagon

Incidentally, the leading trade publishers thought that e-books had ‘no economic life in them’. The success of e-reader of Amazon.com Inc. changed the equation, giving a hint to publishers that the burgeoning e-books market was real. The arrival of iPad from Apple Inc. with its claim of tapping over 125 million iTunes customers one day indicated the e-book market’s enormous potential. The iPad also championed a different approach to existing e-book pricing.

Google is set to jump into the fray with its own e-books, promising to take digital books revolution to an entirely new level. To sum up, the good old days for bookstores of filling their shelves and opening the doors are clearly gone.

E-books are turning the whole economics of book reading and retailing upside down…

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Search Engine News Updates: May17-22-2010

eBrandz Editor — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:30:55 +0000

Welcome to another weekly edition of Search and Social updates where Google’s privacy blunder over unencrypted wi-fi networks seem to be getting worse and worse. Yahoo–in a clear attempt to get deepen its roots into the social content space and better compete with both AOL and Demand Media–announced the acquisition of Associated Content, and besides that the Internet powerhouse made an alliance with Nokia announcing “Project Nike,” that would deliver Yahoo services on Nokia’s cellphones, as well as many more interesting Search Engine Optimization news from across the web…
	Google: Oops, We Snooped On Your Wi-Fi For Data Collection German request for data examination reveals that its globe-trotting Street View cars it has used since 2007, have been “accidentally” collecting payload of information collecting information sent over open WiFi networks, contradicting previous assurances by the company… Read More

	Google To Shut Online Store For Nexus One Smartphone Google Inc. last week announced that will close down its 4-month-old online store for its Nexus One smartphone, abandoning an ambitious plan by the Web search leader in a deliberated move that signals the failure of its bid to market the device directly to consumers on the Web… Read More

	Google and Intel Plans To Offer Internet On Your TV Google and Intel are soon expected to move into the living room with a significant innovation into consumer electronics and the broadcast industry this week with the launch of a “Smart TV” platform that will bring the internet to home televisions… Read More

	Microsoft Targets Gmail With Hotmail Enhancements Microsoft has finally understood that there is more to maintaining its lead over Gmail than turning over buckets of storage at Hotmail users. In its latest attempt to counter Google Microsoft is set to begin rolling out the latest improvements to its “Windows Live Hotmail” Web mail service… Read More

	MySpace Promises “Simplified” Privacy Controls As Facebook Criticized Although a bit late to the party, the vanishing social networking site MySpace is looking to capitalize on its rival’s recent bad media image. MySpace on Monday said it would soon implement a “simplified privacy controls” as it seeks to differentiate itself from social network rival Facebook… Read More

	Microsoft To Pay VirnetX $200 Million To Settle Patent Dispute Software behemoth Microsoft Corp., has agreed to pay VirnetX Holding Corp., “200 million dollars” to settle patent-infringement dispute over VPN technology in Windows, just around three weeks before a scheduled injunction hearing before a Texas judge… Read More

	Google Offers $68.2 Million For Norwegian VOIP And Video-Conferencing Firm In an obvious attempt to ameliorate the services it can offer online, Internet search engine giant Google on Tuesday said it has signed an agreement to purchase Global IP Solutions (GIPS), a Norwegian company specializing one of the key fundamental technologies to route IP calls over the Internet and video-conferencing, a move that would give it superiority in… Read More

	Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com For Infringing Over “Crown Jewel” Patents Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday gave a major blow to Salesforce.com Inc., in a federal court filing, accusing that the customer-relationship management (CRM) vendor has violated on nine of Microsoft’s patents for ways to make software more efficient, adding a legal angle to the software companies’ brewing rivalry… Read More

	Yahoo Snaps Up Associated Content To Boost Content Creation Yahoo has agreed to acquire Associated Content, an Internet portal that commissions and publishes articles and other content from its vast stable of 380,000 freelance contributors to write commentary and… Read More

	Google Wave Widely Opens Registration To The Public Almost a year has passed since Google unveiled Wave at Google I/O 2009, but its usage has been limited as it was available by invitation. But internet search leader Google on Wednesday opened to the world an innovative Wave communications platform that lets people chat and collaborate in real time, is now open to the public… Read More

	Twitter Unveiled iPhone Application Finally Available In Apple App Store After a fairly long wait, a process that began about six weeks ago has now come to fruition. Twitter has been escalating its presence in the mobile world. Just over a month since it acquired tweeting app dubbed as Tweetie, Twitter has launched its official app for the iPhone and iPod Touch… Read More

	Microsoft Files “Click Laundering” Suits For Clicks On Web Advertising After an investigation extending for more than a year, Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., filed two click-fraud lawsuits Wednesday, in federal court in Seattle against Eric C. Ralls and the company he founded, RedOrbit Inc., a Dallas science news and shopping site, plus 10 unnamed… Read More

	Bing Maps Introduces Three Useful Apps For Travelers Microsoft has added some new dimension to its Bing Maps, which was already impressive in quite a few ways. If you are taking a trip by car this summer, Bing has added three new applications to its Maps service that looks to beat the Google Maps competitor a one-stop… Read More

	Google Challenges Apple’s Music Dominance With SimplifyMedia Acquisition Google in not just targeting the iPhone. It has set its sights on Apple’s dominance of online music, and one of the most fascinating bits of news to appear out of Google I/O conference was the company’s stealth acquisition of Simplify Media a couple months ago… Read More

	Google Sets On Encrypted Web Search Option People who wish to curtail their use of Google’s Web search more secure from network sleuths now have the option of encrypting the session by entering “https://www.google.com” into their browser… Read More

	Yahoo, Nokia Reportedly Teaming Up To Unveil “Project Nike” On Monday Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz has scheduled a press conference in New York for Monday, when it may soon announce a partnership with Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone manufacturer Nokia, and is expected to reveal a “Project Nike”… Read More

	FTC Regulators Approves Google’s Acquisition Of AdMob In a volte-face of regulatory fortune, Google Inc has won approval from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for its $750 million acquisition of the mobile advertising company AdMob, after months of investigation… Read More

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Search Engine News Updates: February 08-13-2010

eBrandz Editor — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:27:49 +0000

As the week comes to a close on a hectic note, and as for those who are trolling the Internet for the most significant development in the Search Engine Marketing world, we have got one for you! — Google has brought the latest in the world of, well, it plans to build develop a super-fast networks, with speeds up to 1 gigabit per second. And, in competition with Twitter and Facebook, tears into the social networking scene with its latest addition to Gmail — Buzz. While Microsoft and Facebook amended their ad pact and Yahoo finally shuttered down its Yahoo Tech.
	Microsoft, Facebook Modify Ad Relationship–Swaps Banners For Search Deal Microsoft and Facebook have operated together since 2007, but now their relationship is beginning to develop, with both sides sacrificing a little but harvesting more in exchange. Read More

	Facebook Reaches 400 Million Users, Celebrates 6th Birthday Redesigned Home Page Facebook, the popular social-networking site, which recently surpassed the 400 million user mark and is celebrating its sixth anniversary, has once again started rolling out a revamped homepage last week, a redesign intended to make it easier to find certain features, like notifications, news photos, and chat. Read More

	Google Earth Demonstrates Historical Aerial Images Of World War II Interestingly enough, Google Earth is a great tool to explore places around the globe you may not be able to get to otherwise. But it does not ends just there, it takes you back in time. Read More

	Google Aims At Facebook, Twitter With Gmail Buzz Search engine behemoth Google is heading for a head-to-head combat with Facebook and Twitter after it unveiled a bundle of new social networking features on its email service. Google, on Tuesday announced a new social networking service called Google Buzz. Read More

	AOL Partners With Facebook, Integrates Lifestream To AIM Just a day after Google integrated its Gmail with a social networking feature, the newly-independent AOL Inc. unfurled a beta version of its AIM instant messaging client that connects with Facebook’s Chat service. Read More

	Google Preps To Build SuperFast Broadband Networks Trying to speed up Internet service across the nation, Google on Wednesday unveiled plans to develop and test an experimental fibre optic broadband network in several communities that would be 100 times faster. Read More

	Yahoo Shutters Yet Another Tech Vertical In March As Yahoo continues to take stock of its non-performing properties, the company, Yahoo Tech has failed to make the cut. According to reports, Yahoo is closing down Yahoo Tech. Read More

	Google Acquires Social Search Startup Aardvark The coolest search engine that never reached the masses got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million. With its first acquisition of 2010, Google is making it know that it is serious about social networking. Read More

	Microsoft Adorned Bing Maps With Flickr Photos, Indoor Imagery At the TED conference this week, Microsoft outstripped Google’s Street Views application when the software giant unleashed some cool new features for its revamped Bing Maps application, taking panoramic views indoors. Read More

	Google Unveiled Maps Labs With 9 Cool New Features Hold on your breathe a nice surprise from Google’s Maps team: Google on Friday, just like Gmail Labs, unveiled a cool new set of innovative add-ons to its popular mapping service that offers a multitude of new ways to explore places near and far.. Read More

	Google Releases New Beta Chrome Extensions, Bookmark Sync For Macs The browser wars never ceases… Search engine giant Google on Thursday unveiled via a blog post that it has rolled out a new update for the beta version of its Chrome web browser for Mac. Read More

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Search Engine News Updates: February 01-06-2010

eBrandz Editor — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:28:36 +0000

Welcome to another weekly edition of Search and Social updates worth for SEO geeks – Although things were a bit slow over the past week, but it is always good for an announcement or two. Google discreetly plans to open an Apps Store, with enhancements to Google News and Gmail, while Yahoo renewed its licensing deal with AP and sadly sold-out its HotJobs to Monster.com. Also, the best of the news came from Mozilla, which launched their first mobile browser, and Amazon.com acquired Touchco to battle Apple’s iPad, and many more interesting Search Engine Optimization news from across the web.
	Mozilla Unfurls First Mobile Firefox Browser For Nokia N900 Amidst the Apple iPad buzz, a major event in the mobile world that took place last week and as the mobile browsing technology is concerned – Mozilla has been steadily expanding its wings toward its goal of officially releasing the first Firefox Mobile… Read More

	Yahoo Renews Licensing Deal With AP For Displaying Content, Leaves Google In Limbo Renewing a longstanding link, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. and the Associated Press announced that they have forged a deal to keep the AP’s articles, photos and videos to appear on the Yahoo News site, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Monday… Read More

	Google Planning To Open Store For Business Software Apps: Report In a move that will bring Google in closer competition to Microsoft’s Azure platform, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports, Google Inc., as early as March is intending to open a new Apps Store that will integrate its Web services for online businesses collaboration and communication hosted suite… Read More

	Verizon Mashes Up Navigator 5.0 With Facebook Social Networking Verizon, North America’s largest mobile carrier, recently announced a new version of VZ Navigator 5.0, taking the mobile GPS navigation to a whole new level and integrated the service with Facebook… Read More

	Google News Reaches For The Stars Lets User Personalize News Story Wish to constantly monitor a hot new story being reported by multiple news agency? A new Google feature now lets you bookmark stories on the front page (with a star) as well as story clusters that appear in search results. Today Google News added the ability to help you keep track of a particular news story as it progresses throughout the day… Read More

	Google Unleashed New Search Features To Gmail Labs Many of you have probably already noticed a little Google Search icon on the toolbar in the Gmail compose window. Now they have added several powerful new features. The official introduction of all these features was announced today on the Official Gmail Blog… Read More

	Monster.com Swallows Yahoo’s HotJobs For $225 Million Yahoo Inc.’s continued strategy to lighten its corporate load, and as the national unemployment rate continues to remain around 10%, considering this the Web portal has dumped another of its property deemed expendable by CEO Carol Bartz, selling HotJobs to Monster for $225 million… Read More

	Another Microsoft Windows Veteran Mike Nash Leaving The Company Microsoft Corp., established that another Windows veteran, “Mike Nash,” corporate vice president, who steered Microsoft’s security activities before committing the past several years in the product management and strategy department in the Windows unit, is leaving the company effective before the end of February… Read More

	AOL Snatches Another Googler Into Its Fold AOL has poached another high-profile Google executive “David Eun,” the executive who functioned as Google’s ambassador to Hollywood’s television and film community, to become president of AOL Media and Studios as it seeks to forge a viable content business out of the ashes of the disastrous AOL Time Warner merger… Read More

	Amazon Acquires Touch-Screen Maker Touchco To Battle Apple’s iPad Amazon appears to be making strides towards making the Kindle a little more touchy — now that Apple’s iPad is official and being hailed as a “Kindle Killer”. Amazon has reportedly acquired a small New York startup called Touchco, a leading touch-screen innovator… Read More

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Search Engine News Updates: January 25 to 31 – 2010

eBrandz Editor — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:06:15 +0000

Welcome to another weekly edition of Search and Social updates – As we review over past week in the Search Engine industry, we discovered a few surprising stories from major search engines – as Google rolled out many services like Rich Snippets, a very useful service, while adding to its street view arsenal the best of National Trusts images and it has ultimately decided to phase out Microsoft’s aging IE6 browser. Also, the best of the news came from Yahoo, which presented their first quarterly profit in over a year, and Microsoft’s Bing debuted comprehensive stocks and funds management service, and many more interesting Search Engine Optimization news from across the web…
	Google Reveals Answers To Factual Search And Rich Snippets For Events In a bid to let users find the information they are looking for as fast and make search results more relevant, global search leader Google last week introduced two new features in its search technology that is based on two of its experimental products – Google Squared and Rich Snippets… Read More

	Google Adds Prominent National Trust Landmarks To Google Street View Google and the National Trust have teamed up to add a collection of the UK’s as many as twenty 360-degree picturesque landscapes, country houses and fascinating castles from the nation’s most prominent and historic sites have now been added to Google Street View… Read More

	AOL Snaffles Online Video Firm “StudioNow” For $36.5 Million To Boost Seed.com AOL, which became a publicly traded, autonomous company in December after getting spun off by former parent Time Warner, on Monday said that it has acquired Nashville, Tenn.-based video firm StudioNow… Read More

	Google Voice Comes To iPhone, Palm Pre Via Web The quarrel that broke out last summer among Google, Apple and AT&T over Google Voice remains unresolved, But global search leader Google is not waiting for a thaw in the frosty standoff. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a spruced-up mobile Web version of Google Voice tailored for the iPhone… Read More

	Google Spreads Out Social Search To The Masses Late last year, Google introduced its social search experiment with the aim of making search more social, but the search giant has kept it pretty much under wraps from the general public, choosing to make it an opt-in Google Labs feature. Though it still have beta tag on it, it is now mainstream. Google’s Social Search service… Read More

	Yahoo Signs Deal To Become Default Search Provider On Ubuntu For the longest time, the default search provider in Ubuntu Linux has been Google, but this is going to change in the next release – Rick Spencer of Canonical, the group behind the most-popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, disclosed today that it has forged a revenue sharing alliance with Yahoo… Read More

	Google Maps Unveiled Personalized Suggestions Search engine titan Google just announced that it is now bringing personalized search suggestions, a lovely feature fomented on Google.com’s core search, to Google Maps… Read More

	Google Integrates “Click-To-Call” Phone Numbers For Mobile Search Ads Search engine behemoth Google as of late, has been moving forward in full swing, unveiling location-sensitive mobile features week after week. Today it added another to its arsenal: The Mountain View, Calif., company has just announced the integration of “Click-To-Call” feature in AdWords… Read More

	Yahoo Posts Best Of Bartz Era Profit Swings As Sales Sags Yahoo Inc.’s advertising business exhibited further signs of transformation as the Internet company reversed losses of a year ago and posted its best quarterly net profit on Tuesday since Carol Bartz took over as chief executive of the Internet company… Read More

	Google Docs, Sites Phasing Out Support For Internet Explorer 6 Google has finally had enough with Internet Explorer 6. Web developers have long been advising Internet users to discard IE6 for years. But now, the search titan at long last decided to join the cause. Beginning March 1, Google has decided to phase out support for “Internet Explorer 6” on its Google Docs and Google Sites services… Read More

	Bing Introduces In-Depth Stocks And Funds Feature From administering your daily household affairs to portfolio management, Microsoft’s Bing said that it has recently introduced a new “Stocks and Funds pages” features to make it easier for users to find an in-depth financial information for users following or doing research related to stocks and finances… Read More

	Google Books Gets Bookshelves, A New Homepage With My Library Feature Integrated Google Books, one the most popular and controversial platforms to browse through books, read them online and even download them. With millions of titles available and keeps growing, the search giant realized the need for a good interface to find what you need and has just rolled out a revamped Google Books homepage… Read More

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Search Engine News Updates: January 18 to 22 – 2010

eBrandz Editor — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:51:27 +0000

Welcome to another weekly edition of Search and Social updates — Sifting through last week’s rift between China and Google, we bring to you some of the highlights and features in Search Engine Marketing as Google attempting to sell billboards ads in its popular Street View and Microsoft’s Bing records modest gain in search as YouTube, yet another Google service preps movie rentals with movies from the Sundance Film Festival. Here are some of this week’s interesting and exciting SEO news from across the web…
	Microsoft’s Bing Delivers Modest US Search Market Gain In December Microsoft’s new Internet search engine Bing continues to post modest gains in the US search market share in December, and is now growing faster than ever before any of its rivals… Read More

	Google Ready To Sell Real-Time Billboard Ads In Street Views And Maps Global search engine leader Google is all groomed up to transform the digital landscape of its Maps and Street View services by selling ads mapped onto real world posters, billboards and storefront to the highest… Read More

	Google, Verizon Cooperate On Net Neutrality Last week, Google and Verizon Communications Inc — (which supports the search giant’s new phone on its network) once again joined forces to submit a joint letter to the Federal Communications Commission… Read More

	Mozilla Releases Nearly Finished Firefox 3.6 RC2 Release Candidate Mozilla on Sunday, suddenly posted a second Release Candidate of its forthcoming browser Firefox 3.6, just five days after the non-profit organization put forth the first release candidate… Read More

	Microsoft Bows To EU Pressure, Pledges To Cut Bing’s IP Storage To Six Months Succumbing to pressure from European privacy regulators, Microsoft said Tuesday that it has agreed to cooperate with the European Commission by reducing the amount of time it retains Bing search data to… Read More

	Google Plans Live Telecasting Of Indian Premier League Cricket On YouTube Sorry, American sports fans — there are no indications that YouTube is working with the NBA, NHL, or MLB. But according to reports, Cricket enthusiasts should rejoice as it will soon be possible to watch live Indian Premier League cricket matches on YouTube after… Read More

	Microsoft Files Patent Suit Against DVR Maker TiVo Redmond software maker Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in a California District Court, against the DVR maker TiVo Inc., accusing it for violating on two Microsoft patents connected with video programming as a way of defending its partner, AT&T… Read More

	Google Unveiled New Device And Carrier-Specific Targeting Options For Mobile Ads When it comes to advertising, it is absolutely self-evident that Google has pretty much mastered it. Although you can target Google mobile ads by location, but now Google AdWords has just announced a new… Read More

	Opera Jumps Onto Mobile Ad Bandwagon With AdMarvel Acquisition For $8 Million Cash In an effort to improve its mobile ad network, the Norwegian browser maker Opera Software announced that it has jumped onto the mobile advertising bandwagon with the acquisition of AdMarvel… Read More

	YouTube Join Forces With Sundance For Online Movie Rentals Google may have defined advertising with its search engine, but its online video site YouTube just jumped out in the opposite direction with the announcement that it will make movies from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance film festivals available for online rental… Read More

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Search Engine News Updates: January 11 to 16 – 2010

eBrandz Editor — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:58:07 +0000

Have you been too busy lately to take a look the latest happenings in the search engine marketing circles? This past week there were a number of interesting stories about global search leader Google from making compromise with Chinese authors to challenging the ruling authorities with its “Do No Evil” credo and finally Google is also enabling encryption by default for all Gmail users. Here is a rundown of the biggest stories from the last week…
	Google’s “Fast Flip” Becomes Operational On Google News Homepage Back in September last year, Google brought out a new service called Fast Flip to its Labs section. Despite some of its blemishes, Google is giving its experimental news reading application — which offers a way for people to easily skim through news content online… Read More

	Google Apologizes To Chinese Writers Over Book Scanning Dispute Search engine giant Google Inc., at the weekend said its communication with Chinese Writers Association (CWA) was “not good enough” after it published sections of their work in its online library Google Books…… Read More

	Aol Starts Layoffs; 1,200 To 1,400 Staffers To Go Since its recently announced voluntary layoff program that fell short of its goal late last year, US Internet company Aol Inc., on Monday said that it will begin the process of giving out pink slips to around 1,200 to 1,400 employees… Read More

	Yahoo Integrates Shopping Service With PriceGrabber Beginning soon around mid-March, Yahoo Shopping will no more be a solo entity. Yahoo announced today that it is incorporating Yahoo Shopping with comparison shopping search engine PriceGrabber… Read More

	Google Threatens To Exit China Over Hacking Activist Accounts In a head-to-head confrontation with the Chinese government, internet search powerhouse Google Inc. late Tuesday said it might exit China after an investigation revealed that the company had adversely been hit with major cyber attacks on email accounts of human rights activists using Google’s Gmail service… Read More

	Google Docs Assigns “Any File” Storage Options As Cloud Wars Heat Up Have you missed that important file on your office computer again? Forgot an Excel spreadsheet you prepared for a promo presentation on your home laptop? You can now rejoice as Google is now floating a small virtual hard drive in the cloud that will let you upload any type of file… Read More

	Google Shifts Gmail To More Secure HTTPS Service To Protect Wi-Fi Users In an attempt to safeguard Chinese human-rights activists and other Gmail users around the world from hackers looking into their mail accounts, Google on Wednesday announced that it has shifted its Gmail to a more secure protocol by default for all times… Read More

	Microsoft, HP Forge Alliance To Work Together On Cloud Computing Building on a lengthy partnership, Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co., two of the world’s biggest tech vendors, announced a new partnership on Wednesday said they will collectively spend $250 million to develop and more tightly integrate their software and hardware offerings… Read More

	Yahoo Sponsored Search Introduces New Features – Adds Import AdWords Campaigns To help things run smoothly for new advertisers, next week Yahoo is ready to release two Sponsored Search product with two new features, which the company says will provide advertisers with more transparency into and control over their accounts… Read More

	Google Delivers Location Based Search Suggestions To Mobile Search Typing with tiny pad on a mobile phone is an herculean task no matter what device you are using, but Google brings smile tn iPhone and Android users. On Thursday, the search heavyweight has launched search suggestions based on geographical location for iPhone and Android devices… Read More

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Search Engine News Updates: January 2 to 8 – 2010

eBrandz Editor — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:58:39 +0000

When we wrote our year end posts over the weekend we had the opportunity to highlight this year’s Las Vegas-based Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which is rumored to be bigger and glitzier than last year. It has been a surprisingly busy week with several pre-show products pitched in and to top the show, Google finally introduced its own Android phone, the Nexus One — Here are the top stories of the week…
	Google’s New Year 2010 Doodles Flares-Up With Happy New Year Messages Traditionally, there are many New Years customs enjoyed throughout the ages, but for a passionate Internet nerds, there is nothing more exciting and entertaining than celebrating the first day of the year with a special Google doodle… Read More

	Google Commemorated Sir Isaac Newton’s Birthday With Animated Apple The physicist whose most significant breakthrough was portrayed in the original Apple logo, is the latest event being celebrated today by a “Google Doodle” that depicts an apple falling from a tree: an event that inspired him to formulate his theory of gravity, and established him as one of the world’s greatest scientists… Read More

	RealNetworks Purchases Varia, Combines With Cloud Push RealNetworks has scooped up Seattle startup Varia Mobile, hinting at top-secret cloud computing project that the Varia engineering team will be working on at Real, according to TechFlash… Read More

	Google Unveils Its Own “Smartphone” The Nexus One — Targets Apple Directly targeting at Apple’s iPhone, Google on Tuesday unveiled its HTC-built “Nexus One” smartphone, displaying many of its features during a press event, saying the name connotes convergence with its partners, as well as opened an online store to sell the device unlocked to consumers… Read More

	Apple Confirms Acquisition Of Google Ad Competitor Quattro Wireless Apple, Inc. moved on Google’s turf on Tuesday with its acquisition of Quattro Wireless, a mobile-ad competitor to AdMob, which Google just acquired. The deal is the latest sign that the mobile phone is the next battlefield… Read More

	Skype To Offer High-Definition TV And PC Video Calls High-tech video-conferencing is not just for only large-scale enterprise users anymore. Skype Technologies SA, the Web-based telephone company sold last year by eBay Inc… Read More

	Google Unveils “Click-To-Call” Option On Mobile Ads For Smartphones Google generates a lot of money from advertising, and now it is waging an all out war with Apple to be the most innovative in the mobile space, especially in the advertising arena. Read More

	Microsoft Jumps On W3C’s Scalable Vector Graphics Bandwagon While it is striving arduously at creating the next iteration of Internet Explorer, the Redmond software maker, Microsoft has jumped on to join a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Scalable Vector Graphics bandwagon, IE senior program manager Patrick Dengler has blogged… Read More

	Yahoo Expands Connected TV, Processor Partners Today, Yahoo has announced several new partnerships involved with its Connected TV, a wide release of the Widget Developer Kit, and other device manufacturers and content providers as the web company attempts to deliver Internet services to the coming generation… Read More

	Samsung Unveiled Kindle Alternatives, Partnering With Google South Korean electronics giant Samsung is going head-to-head with Amazon and Sony in the burgeoning e-reader market took the wraps off two wireless e-readers at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the “E6” with a six-inch (15.2-centimeter) screen and the “E101” with a 10-inch (25.4-centimeter) display… Read More

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Search Engine News Updates: December 25 to 31– 2009

eBrandz Editor — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:38:06 +0000

As the year ended on a quiet note with moods of holiday and merry making, we have covered some Search Engine Marketing News coming down the pipe that will affect your search results in 2010. Finally it now appears that the economy is slowly but surely recuperating and we wish all of our clients the best of luck with the success of their businesses…
	French Court Imposed €300,000 In Fines Against Google’s Book Scanning Project A French court last week imposed an astounding amount of fine €300,000 ($430,000), against Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet-search engine, for copyright infringement and ordered the search giant to pull all the scanned books off its site, a Paris court ruled today… Read More

	Design Firm Bing Sues Microsoft Over Trademark Bing, the much-touted search engine from Microsoft, is feeling the heat of a trademark conflict, as a small Missouri company called Bing! Information Designs, having the word “Bing” in its name has sued Microsoft for branding its search engine with the same word… Read More

	Facebook Faces Privacy Backlash With FTC Complaint Privacy advocates are grousing about Facebook’s recent privacy changes effected since the second week of December has had scores of users of the world’s biggest online social network up in arms now calling on the US Federal Trade Commission to make Facebook undo the changes in an official complaint… Read More

	Microsoft Loses Word Patent Lawsuit, But Modifies Code To Comply With Court Software behemoth Microsoft Corp., lost its appeal of a lawsuit involving a Canadian company called i4i in May, after a jury ruled that the Redmond, Wash., software maker infringed one of i4i’s patents with a custom XML feature found in Word… Read More

	YouTube Hops On Twitter Bandwagon With URL Shortener Search engine giant Google Inc.’s popular video sharing site YouTube has joined Google and Facebook in the latest bid to improve the way they spread across the web by launching its own URL shortener — Youtu.be… Read More

	Google Fetching DocVerse — Targets Microsoft Office Google, which is reportedly busy tracking valuable start-ups, it seems that the Mountain View, company may be on the brink of acquiring yet again another company called DocVerse… Read More

	Yahoo Pulling Down MyBlogLog Next Month It seems like Yahoo has not done eliminating “non-core” services quite yet. “10 Million Dollars Down the Drain!” The company says it is going to shutter another popular blogging widget MyBlogLog next month, leaving more than a few people scratching their heads… Read More

	Google Assists Businesses Locate AdWords Professionals In Beta Companies that are looking for some assistance with their AdWords campaign may now rejoice to receive some thanks to Google. Google has launched a beta search platform that allows people to search for AdWords Professionals… Read More

	Twitter Fetches Location Tracking Start-Up “Mixer Labs” To Its Arsenal Popular micro-blogging website Twitter is acquiring the location tracking start-up “Mixer Labs,” in an attempt to enable users to map their Twitter posts to specific locations on maps and other tools… Read More

	Google Confirms January 5 Android Media Event It may be the much-anticipated moment the tech industry has been waiting for as Google apparently seems well prepared to give outsiders a glimpse at its latest vision of the world-changing possibilities of smartphones… Read More

	Consumer Groups Urge FTC To Block Google’s AdMob Acquisition Two consumer groups requested the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday to bar the global online search and advertising giant Google’s proposed acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob… Read More

	Facebook Ranked The Most Visited Website In The US On Christmas Day Hitwise, a market analytics firm that tracks online stats, has some good news for the team at Facebook. The popular social-networking entity Facebook hit an audience milestone recently when it was crowned as the most visited site in the U.S…. Read More

	Google Analytics Adds New Annotation Feature Google Analytics is one of the most robust offerings by the search giant and with its recent release of Google Analytics new features, it has almost become ubiquitous for a large number of companies reaping benefits from it… Read More

	Google City Tours Simplifies Trip Planning – Adds Walking Directions, Custom Maps The team at Google Labs last summer introduced a new service dubbed as Google City Tours, one of the ongoing projects by Google Labs team that has tweaked the interface that generated a tour of various attractions near a location including real walking directions and My Maps integration… Read More

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Search Engine News Updates: December 14 to 19 – 2009

eBrandz Editor — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:49:33 +0000

As Christmas is here, there has been plenty of last minute hush-hush and interesting stories around the world of search engine marketing and optimization, we manage to cover the past week’s post with the latest news with emphasis on news stories related to corporate search engine optimization from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and more…
	Google To Introduce Android Smart Phone In 2010, A Latest Blow To Apple Iphone In its latest attempt to make headway in the lucrative mobile market around the globe, search engine titan Google Inc. is developing its own proprietary Android smartphone dubbed as “Nexus One,” to be released in early 2010 without a mobile carrier partner, marks a new push… Read More

	Microsoft’s Bing Maps Powers New Climate Change Web Apps As world leaders gather in Copenhagen, planning to thrust engagement and support of actions against climate change, Software behemoth, Microsoft rolled out a new Web-based applications designed to… Read More

	AOL’s MapQuest Introduces Street-Level Imagery To Catchup With Google Maps AOL’s MapQuest has finally announced the launch of “360 degree views,” to its maps today, a feature that saw the day of light almost two-and-a-half years after Google first added similar images to Google Maps Street view… Read More

	Microsoft China Accused Of Plucking Off Design And Code From Plurk With competition between tech titans on the rise, it looks as if Redmond software maker Microsoft is running out of ideas and is now desperately adopting crooked ways on ruining their reputation by using stolen code… Read More

	Google And Facebook Launches Custom URL Shorteners Google and Facebook are each set to embark into new territory on Monday with the launch of a new URL-shortening service, a tool that modifies a long internet address in to a much shorter string of random characters such as Goo.gl… Read More

	Google Earth Hits The Road In Style — Integrated Into New Audi A8 The Germans are great admirer of their cars and occasionally they add innovative gadgets in the newest models they export around the world. Search engine giant Google, another creative thinker is partnering with German car manufacturer Audi to include Google Earth… Read More

	Google Adds One Button Duplicate Contacts Sorter To Easily Merge In Gmail Managing your contacts can be a pretty irksome task, especially when you have multiple instances of your contacts scattered all over the place. Global search leader Google, earlier this week introduced a new feature… Read More

	Google Adds 50 New Media Partners To “Fast Flip” Online News Project Internet giant Google amid criticism from media companies, now continuing to appease the dying newspaper industry, has added more than dozens 24 media partners to its online news reader “Fast Flip,” including… Read More

	Google Reportedly Making Bid To Acquire Yelp According to various media reports suggesting that Google Inc., world’s most popular Internet search engine, is making a bid to acquire the popular San Francisco do-it-yourself review site Yelp Inc…. Read More

	Microsoft Releases Bing Search App For The iPhone Even though Microsoft’s Windows Mobile business competes with iPhone maker Apple, the Redmond, Wash., software maker’s new Bing app is pushing its Bing search engine pretty hard into the mobile space… Read More

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