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Search Deal Puts Twitter in the Black
16 hours ago ago from The Pipe
A report released on Monday from BusinessWeek indicates that Twitter will end 2009 profitable. The microblogging site reportedly signed deals with Google and Microsoft's Bing search engines that will allow Twitter content to come up in searches. In exchange for making its searchable on Google, Twitter gains about $15 million, while the Microsoft deal is worth about $10 million. Twitter launched in 2006, and has since become one of the ...
Related contentGoogle Twitter Deal Looks Set For Success And Even More Profits
19 hours ago ago from Technology news, SEO news, Headline news,
Google's $10 million deal with Twitter has just started to pay off. Although Google's real time search capacity has only just come into action, Twitter has made massive profits from the deal, reportedly $25 million including the deal with Microsoft, enough to see Twitter become a profitable organisation within just 3 years. The news is bound to bring quite a boost to Google profits too as the micro-blogging site's results appear in Google ...
Related contentYahoo Getting Left In The Dirt By Google And Bing
17 hours ago ago from dot COM Report
Once the world's online search leader, Yahoo's share has sharply declined, putting it in danger of losing its relevance in a market increasingly dominated by Google. Yahoo's search market share in November fell to 17.5% from 18% in October, according to a monthly comScore report released late Wednesday. It's the lowest share ever recorded for Yahoo. Cannibalizing Yahoo's market share is Microsoft, whose new Bing search site gained 0.4 ...
Related contentTwitter $25m for Live Search
19 hours ago ago from webbunny.net
Apparently Twitter made $25 million dollars from it's live search deals with Microsoft and Google, $10m and $15 respectively. It is not known whether these are one off or ongoing payments. If they are one offs, Twitter could probably use some better negotiators. More here but would recommend against taking to much notice of the headline, Twitter is Already Profitable . I think that there is no doubt that Twitter will be profitable ...
Related contentYelp turns down Google's half billion dollar bid
18 hours ago ago from FT.com | Tech Blog
It seems that a half billion dollars was not enough. That's the price Yelp, the local reviews site, was set to fetch on Friday as it entered into late stage negotiations with Google . But last night TechCrunch reported that the deal had fallen apart . Perhaps news of the imminent deal attracted new bidders to the table, but it's not yet clear what caused the last minute scuttling. Yelp actually seemed a good fit at Google, as we ...
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A Very Short List: Publishers Who've Actually Told Google to Take a Hike [MediaMemo]
1 day ago ago from All Things D
Publishers love to gripe about Google. But they almost never, ever, do the one thing that could put their money where their mouth is: Tell the search giant to leave them out of its results. If you follow the media v. Google meme, you know this instinctively. But here are some numbers that spell it out: Out of the 25,000-plus sources Google News catalogs, less than 100 have opted out of the index, says Google's Josh Cohen, who runs the ...
Related contentYelp Is Gone–For Now–But Google Has Plenty of Fish Left to Fry [MediaMemo]
1 day ago ago from All Things D
The Google/Yelp deal , which seemed close just a few days ago, is indeed gone , at least for now. But even if that one doesn't go through, no need to worry. Google has plenty more in the hopper. Just in case you didn't get the picture yet six deals, for about a $1 billion or so, since August, plus another $500 million one that got away Eric Schmidt and company have their checkbook out. It's not going away anytime soon. Back in September, ...
Related contentMcWane agrees to pay $4 million fine
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Related contentWho Walked, Google or Yelp?
7 hours ago ago from The New York Times
Search All NYTimes.com Search Technology DIGITAL VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY Digital Camcorders Digital Cameras December 21, 2009, 11:41 pm Who Walked, Google or Yelp? By MIGUEL HELFT One thing is certain about the Google - Yelp courtship: After turning hot as recently as Friday, a bitter chill has spread over the relationship, ...
Related contentYelp Spurns Google's $500M Advance, LG's 'World's Thinnest' LCD TV
19 hours ago ago from Switched
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Last week, reports emerged that Google was hoping to purchase the business review site Yelp for $500 million. Somehow, the Yelp folks have decided to back out of that astronomical deal, and the site will remain independent. [From: TechCrunch ] TVs were one of the hottest selling items on Black Friday. Now that thousands of people have brand new flat-screens, manufacturers are, of ...
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