AOL to buy Bebo for just under 1 billion

"NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOL announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Bebo (http://www.bebo.com), a leading global social media network. Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give...

Facebook Stays Cool While Yahoo Warms Up To OpenSocial

Google's OpenSocial APIs may be gaining a major new adherent this week. According to the New York Times, Yahoo is expected to join the group that includes MySpace, Plaxo, Bebo, Hi5, Orkut, LinkedIn, Six Apart, Oracle, salesforce.com and Ning, among others. In fact, Facebook...

Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Facebook: The Epic Battle of 'Long-Tail Marketing'

In the world of online media marketing, 2007 will be remembered as a quantum evolution in "behavioral targeting" technology. Most recent and perhaps most important, Facebook opened up its marketing platform to developers and the widget was born as a cheap marketing and...

Life after Yahoo

For the first time, massive layoffs in the tech sector are being reported in realtime by those in the firing line.  Here is the twittering of former Yahoo employee who has turned his pink slip into a calling card.  " Article in tomorrow morning's LA Times about...

Is Yahoo Playing Not to Lose?

After reading my little rant about Yahoo losing its mojo, James Whitley over at GoLifeMoble.com wrote a very thoughtful riff on it. “What caught my attention [about Mattis’ rant],” says Whitley, “was the all-too-familiar telltale signs of an organization that had...

Yahoo Rejects Microsofts Offer, Weekend Violence Plagues University District:...

This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from SeattleIAM where you will find the best blogs from Seattle, Washington as well as video uploads, social networking, rumors, and blog authoring Yahoo Rejects Microsoft’s $44.6 Million Bid The latest from Biz Buzz...

Technical Analysis Spotlight: Microsoft Ticker Symbol MSFT

The world’s largest information technology company made an unsolicited offer of $44.6 billion for Yahoo just over a week ago. Since then Microsoft has lost over $37 billion on its market capitalization.More than 50% shares of Yahoo had changed hands...