I wondered how Google will directly benefit from the OpenSocial API a few days ago, particularly as more bloggers believe it to be a whole lot of hot air, and now it looks like Yahoo is answering.
That is, on a day that its stock is tanking {down 7%} perhaps because of how Jerry Yang is [...]
Duncan Riley reports that Alibaba has had the typical — or perhaps, more than typical — run up of a hotly expected internet IPO, with its stock price shooting up around 160% of its initial offering.
The big obvious winner is Yahoo, who controls a controlling 40% stake in the parent group of this Chinese enterprise-level [...]
Thanks to a kind invite by Sam Harrelson (via cost per news), I am now in Mash doing … uh, Mashy-type things.
Its quite a lot like Facebook, with a few subtle differences, such as the ability to move around and potentially play with *other* “friends” profiles. Another interesting thing is that you have some control [...]
Yahoo has released its social network “Mash” into beta, with a limited number of invites circulating around your favourite social networking sites. I’ve yet to actually play with it myself (not deigned to being big or influential enough to get any advance shares sadly), but I can already tell you that the advance press (from [...]
So you may have heard that Yahoo! snapped up BuzzTracker, a rather small potato in a field of news/blog aggregators, for a cool $5 million dollars. The details can be found courtesy of Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.com over here.
Like Mat Ingram, I haven’t paid anything but a cursory look at BuzzTracker because it just [...]
So, Bear Stearns, the investment banking and hedge goliath who can’t seem to get sub-prime mortgages right – whose two hedge funds declared bankruptcy in the midst of some of the steepest drops in the stock market memory — is now declaring itself a guru in social marketing. To be fair, Bear Stearns is [...]
Namely, issues around how it works, and how it plans to solve some perception problems with ad-execs.
