Posts Tagged with ‘Google-Ads’

Now that we’ve been talking about Google’s new web browser Chrome for the entire past week, I think it’s time to take a look at its core and finally realize that Google is actually an advertising company and advertising is exactly where Google’s main field of business is. Advertising is how Google makes the money to finance acquisitions of other companies and its own large-scale developments resulting in much-hyped product releases like Chrome.
And since Google is an advertising company, everything [...]

So Google is in negotiations with Digg to buy the social voting site for “around $200 million”. Now what? Of course, a valid question here would be why Google is still acquiring companies offering all kinds of services when it could have been much simpler to build a similar service of their own in a matter of weeks (and there are tons of scripts allowing to launch a Digg clone available already so this is hardly any problem at [...]

RottenNeighbor.com is a fairly new web service, launched in July, that is out to provide web users with insight into the which neighborhoods around the United States have experienced reports of bad neighbors.
To do this, the website implements Google Maps to provide users with where unfriendly neighbors are located, as posted by other users.
The layout is simple and easy to use, but Rotten Neighbor does have its flaws, beginning with the seemingly excessive use of Google Ads [...]

Google Inc. just made a deal with U.S. TV satellite company EchoStar in an attempt to enter the TV advertising business. On Monday EchoStar and Google said they will partner to create an automated system for buying, selling, delivering and measuring TV ads on EchoStar's 125 channel Dish Network.
Google pay-per-click advertising has transformed the Internet and now Google is aiming to bring the same system to conventional media like radio, TV and printed media. This will really shake up the [...]

European Internet start-up Webjam raises $2 million in first-round funding.
Webjam, a London startup founded by Yahoo! veterans, has just received their first round funding of about $2 million for further product development. We received the press release from Webjam Ltd. announcing this latest news about the versatile online community.
Webjam has been in Beta testing since its inception back in November of last year and has been covered by us then. This latest news prompted me to join the site to [...]