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ComScore Video Rankings: YouTube Usage Spiked 72 Percent Over 2010
As it seeks to launch nearly 100 new channels featuring professionally produced video, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has a key advantage over original video competitiors like Hulu and Yahoo: millions more viewers can see its promos.
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Jerry Yang Has Left the Building; Resigns From Yahoo, Alibaba Boards
Investors won’t have Jerry Yang to blame anymore. In a stunning move announced after the markets closed, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) co-founder resigned from the company’s board of directors and from all other positions—effective immediately. Just as quickly, Yahoo’s stock jumped in after-hours trading.
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New Yahoo CEO Makes Millions Even If He Does Nothing But Show Up For A Year
All Scott Thompson has to do is show up as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) for the next year or so and he stands to make around $25 million. If he actually meets a few performance goals, make that $27 million.
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The Morning Lowdown 11-30-11
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:
» FTC Announces 20 Year Privacy Deal With Facebook, Asks To Be ‘Liked’ (paidContent)
» Bets on Spotify’s news – radio: (Strategy Eye) / enhanced API (WSJ). We are at the announcement later… (paidContentUK’s Robert Andrews)
» Comparing The New Aggregators, Part 2 (paidContent)
» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Bidders Come in at $16.50 to $17.50, With Plan to Keep Jerry Yang (AllThingsD)
» Gannett’s First-quarter furloughs just announced; unpaid time off will be fifth big round since ‘09 (Jim Hopkins’ GannettBlog)
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Apple Vs. Microsoft Vs. Google Vs. Dropbox: A Cloud-Computing Guide
“Where did the computer go?” was the slogan Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) used in 2004 when it launched the first of its current range of iMac desktop computers. The question was designed to draw attention to the ingenuity with which the company’s designers had managed to pack the components of an entire desktop computer into what was effectively an enclosure for a large flat screen. But actually it’s a question with a more contemporary relevance, because nowadays most of us rely on “computing” that’s provided by machines we never see and could not locate even if we tried. They are somewhere out there in the internet “cloud,” which is how so many of us came to be users of something called “cloud computing”.
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Updated: Yahoo Highlights Immersive Ads In HTML5 With Livestand Launch
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) launched its long-awaited Livestand news-reader app Tuesday during an event at company headquarters, promising that the experience would be compelling to both readers and advertisers. It also took the wraps off a new iPad version of the IntoNow TV-companion application and shed a little more light on the technology behind its new products.
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Yahoo Buys Interclick Amid Consolidation Of Ad Data Providers
Yahoo’s announcement that it is acquiring data management platform interclick for $270 million comes amid a wave of ad tech deals, which are mostly centered on building up larger advertising and publishing companies’ social and behavioral analytics. It’s become increasingly clear, as this acquisition shows, that when it comes to online advertising, data is king.
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Report: Yahoo, Google Set To Muscle Into Crowded Tablet News Reader Space
How do you know when a phenomenon like tablet news-reader applications has staying power? When the big guys jump in; and according to a report, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) are set to release their takes on socially oriented news-reading applications over the next few weeks.
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The Morning Lowdown 10-28-11
Some of the stories people are talking about this morning:
» Emily Gould And The Rise Of The Indie E-Bookseller (paidContent)
» Mobile Ad Company 4INFO Raises $14 Million, Spins Out Its AdHaven Platform (paidContent)
» The Awkward, Unanswered Questions That Led to Coldplay’s Spotify Embargo (paidContent)
» Laid off Gannett (NYSE: GCI) reporter turns Occupy protester, feels burned by CEO’s $37 mil pay (American Independent)
» Lefty journalism professor tries to discredit the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times!!! (Not exactly…) (PressThink/Jay Rosen)
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Microsoft’s Ballmer: ‘Lucky’ To Not Own Yahoo, Nokia WP7 Devices Next Week
Steve Ballmer knows he dodged a bullet. Not only did the global market collapse just after Yahoo’s Jerry Yang turned down a $44 billion offer from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for his company, but Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is, well, Yahoo.
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