Internet News (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Google's Ventures Into Virtual Reality Michael Liedtke, AP via Time (Jul 9) Google takes on Second Life and provides a virtual world of its own "Google debuted a free service Tuesday in which three-dimensional software enables people to congregate in...
Breakout Performance (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Michael Liedtke – 1 hour ago SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has revised the results of a closely watched shareholder vote on its much-maligned board after discovering an error by a tabulation firm grossly exaggerated the number of ballots backing the directors. The changes made Tuesday revealed that 200 million votes opposing the re-election of Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang, Yahoo Chairman...
Breakout Performance (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
By Michael Liedtke – 4 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc.'s recent truce with investor Carl Icahn didn't pacify many shareholders who remain on the war path heading into the Internet company's annual meeting Friday. The slings and arrows are expected to include a significant number of votes opposing the re-election of the company's current board of directors and a fusillade of criticism. Yahoo...
The Eagle (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
AP Photo NYBZ111, NYBZ112, NYBZ113 By Michael Liedtke Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. averted a showdown with rabble-rousing ...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Running a small business? Now you can use Visa’s Facebook application to connect with other small businesses. Visa also threw in a bonus for good measure: the first 20,000 business owners to sign up will get $100 in Facebook advertising credit. AP reports that Visa has invested $2 million in advertising and starting this Facebook [...]
Internet News (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Google grows stronger in Microsoft-Yahoo fallout By Michael Liedtke AP via mywire (june 13) Google won in every possible way. Of interest: "Google currently has about 75 percent of the U.S. search advertising market followed by Yahoo at 9 percent,...
MediaChannel (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
By Michael Liedtke, AP Google CEO Eric Schmidt said he hopes that their recently acquired advertising service DoubleClick will aid newspapers as they struggle to corral more online revenue.
The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
There are times when I wonder whether or not Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google, learned his personal "art" of rhetoric from President George W. Bush. Consider yesterday's report from Associated Press Business Writer Michael Liedtke: Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that the Internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service DoubleClick will aid...
