Google tests out blog ad service
This week, Google spawned a version of AdSense that allows publishers to send a text or banner advertisement alongside syndicated content using Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom, Google's adopted format.
RSS is an open standard for content syndication that's transforming the way people access news headlines and other information such as blogs online. Though it's one of the most promising emerging technologies, publishers have yet to find means of profiting from it.
Companies including Kanoodle, Moreover Technologies and Yahoo are testing similar ad services for feeds.
Google spokesman Barry Schnitt confirmed the test, but would not provide further details
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Microsoft Upbeat on Revenue Growth for 2006
For some Microsoft investors, the latest quarterly results were either up or down, given one's perspective. The company on Thursday offered investors a 5 percent rise in revenue to $9.62 billion for the quarter ended March 31 over the same quarter a year ago. But that figure was down by more than $1 billion when compared with the results posted in December.
Operating income for this, the third quarter of Microsoft Corp.'s financial year, came in at $3.33 billion, which was more than double the $1.28 billion in the year-ago quarter, largely as a result of a sharp fall in legal charges.
As a result, net income nearly doubled to $2.56 billion, and diluted earnings per share for the third quarter came in at 23 cents per share, which included 5 cents per share in legal charges.
Microsoft also repurchased more than 95 million shares of common stock for $2.42 billion during the quarter, which helped push total share repurchases so far this fiscal year higher than for all of fiscal year 2004.
Management expects revenue of $43.3 billion to $44.1 billion for the full fiscal year ending June 30, with operating income of $18.3 billion to $18.9 billion, including stock-based compensation expenses. Diluted earnings per share would be in the range of $1.26 to $1.30, including stock-based compensation expense.
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2004 Internet Ad Rev Surpasses Dotcom Boom Levels
U.S. Internet advertising surged 33 percent in 2004 to a record $9.6 billion, surpassing levels seen during the early Web boom, and will grow at a similar rate in 2005, according to data released on Thursday.
The figures bolster reports from individual advertisers who say they are moving more of their marketing budgets online as consumers devote more time to the Internet and fewer hours to television and other media.
Interactive advertising has clearly become a mainstream medium and one that can no longer be ignored," said Greg Stuart, president of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).
Looking ahead, research firm eMarketer predicted online ad growth of 33.7 percent in 2005 to $12.7 billion, raising a previous estimate of $11.5 billion for the year. eMarketer had estimated 2004 ad revenue at $9.5 billion.
Online classified ads grew 18 percent to $1.7 billion, representing a growing challenge to traditional newspaper classifieds.
Consumer goods companies accounted for nearly half of all online ad spending in 2004, while financial services firms made up 17 percent of the total revenue.
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Yahoo Profit Up on Web Ads, Stock Rises
Yahoo Inc. said April 19th its quarterly profit doubled on Web advertising growth and it issued a healthy forecast for the current quarter, sending its shares up 5 percent.
The strong results and higher outlook from the Internet media company, whose site Yahoo.com is the U.S. leader.
Yahoo posted net income of $205 million, or 14 cents a share, in the first quarter, up from $101 million, or 7 cents a share, a year earlier.
Analysts on average had expected the company to post a net profit of 11 cents a share on net revenue of $798 million, according to Reuters Estimates.
Fast-growing Web search advertising provides close to half of Yahoo's overall revenue and virtually all of Google's.
Web search is seen accounting for 41 percent of all online ad spending in 2005, when total Web advertising is expected to grow 21 percent year-over-year to $11.5 billion, according to eMarketer.
Yahoo, which provides everything from Web search and e-mail to news, shopping and horoscopes, increasingly is delivering original content that can carry additional advertising, a move that differentiates it from Google.
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Adobe to acquire Macromedia
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.
The combination of Adobe and Macromedia strengthens our mission of helping people and organizations communicate better. Through the combination of our powerful development, authoring and collaboration tools – and the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash – we have the opportunity to drive an industry-defining technology platform that delivers compelling, rich content and applications across a wide range of devices and operating systems.
By combining the passion and creativity of two leading-edge companies, we will continue driving innovations that are changing the ways people everywhere are experiencing and interacting with information.
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Google's Local Search Goes Mobile
Google is making its local-search service available from mobile devices, complete with maps and driving directions.
Along with the mobile-browser option, Google Inc. is adding support for retrieving driving directions through text messaging. Last year, Google began offering a host of mobile search services using SMS (Short Message Service).
The new mobile service focuses specifically on retrieving the names of local businesses and information from business directories and the Web. It is available in the United States and Canada at
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Users receive a two-box interface on their mobile browsers. In one box they enter what they are seeking, such as "pizza," while in the other they enter their location by zip code or by city and state.
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Google Feature Incorporates Satellite Maps
Online search engine leader Google has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images, an advance that may raise privacy concerns as well as intensify the competitive pressures on its rivals.
This marks the first time since the deal closed that Google has offered free access to Keyhole's high-tech maps through its search engine. Users previously had to pay $29.95 to download a version of Keyhole's basic software package.
The satellite maps could unnerve some people, even as the technology impresses others. That's because the Keyhole technology is designed to provide close-up perspective of specific addresses.
Google's free satellite maps initially will be limited to North America, with images covering roughly half the United States.
The satellite maps also up the ante for the many challengers chipping away at Google's share of the lucrative Internet search engine market by adding more bells and whistles. For instance, Amazon.com Inc.'s A9 search engine earlier this year introduced a feature that includes an index containing 20 million street-level photographs of building exteriors in 10 major U.S. cities.
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NASA Turns to Mexican Lake for Clues to Alien Life
With cobalt waters harboring eerie, coral-like formations, this archipelago of lakes in Mexico's searing Chihuahuan desert has always had an other-worldly appearance.
Now top researchers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration say the calcified clumps of primitive bacteria lurking in its pools could provide important clues in their search for extraterrestrial life.
Scientists from NASA's Astrobiology Institute have begun studying the lakes' ancient formations called stromatolites.
"They may be our best example of what to look for on other planets," said Brad Bebout.
NASA's hunch is that planets around nearby stars could be populated by similar colonies of primitive bacteria, which served as the basis from which complex, multicellular plants and animals that inhabit the Earth later evolved.
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