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Podcasts can be cool, but “cool” isn’t necessarily enough to attract new customers or increase your profits.  So Eric Schwartzman, iPressroom’s founder and chairman, gave relevant advice in a session called “Attracting/Growing Your Audience.”
WebProNews has been covering the Podcast and New Media Expo taking place in Ontario, California.  You can catch our conference interviews [...]

When someone (truthfully) says “99.9 percent of the time,” it’s often all right to round up to one hundred.  When examining Google’s downtime, though, there’s a lot to be learned by looking at numbers even farther beyond the decimal point.
Way out at the thousandths place - where differences of just 0.001 are measured - [...]

Sony BMG has inked a deal with online social media network Imeem to make its music available on the ad-supported music service.

Sony follows in the footsteps of the Warner Music Group who signed a deal with Imeem in July after suing the company for copyright violation. EMI is also in talks with Imeem according to [...]

Google Maps is forcing the U.S. Navy to change the design of one of its buildings in San Diego called "The Seals Lair" which from an aerial photograph appears to be in the shape of a swastika.

Google Maps Drives Navy To Change Building

Back in 2005 WebProNews reported on the story of the offensively shaped building [...]

Google’s got a huge share of the search market, but is it better than Microsoft and Yahoo at finding what its users want?  According to some new information from Compete, maybe not.
Compete’s Jeremy Crane investigated the matter and found that, in terms of statistical “search fulfillment,” Google is lagging.  “Yahoo! pretty much takes the [...]

The entertainment ambitions of ex-Yahoo CEO Terry Semel may be swept away for the most part after top Yahoo executives meet to discuss their operations in Santa Monica.

For those in the entertainment industry, Silicon Valley may as well be on Mars in terms of how far away it is from Hollywood power brokers. During the [...]

Mobile social network company Zingku nearly flew into Google’s nest under the radar, as Google’s visit to Washington DC attracted plenty of attention.Maybe the purchase of Zingku was Google’s reminder to search industry observers that the company does do more than visit Capitol Hill to talk about DoubleClick.
Google Operating System spotted the deal. “We’ve entered [...]

In an article for the Financial Times, Maija Palmer said it all, writing, “Google is planning to expand its staff by a third, with most of the new hirings in Europe . . .”  But to add my editorial voice to the mix: holy crap.

Europe Braces For Google Buildup

Perhaps I’ve been thinking too much [...]

This is the Internet age. We don’t have to wait for general counsels to drop their bon mots before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, because they are already posted online.

Upon review of the testimony by David Drummond of Google, and Brad Smith of Microsoft, Google thinks its proposed purchase of DoubleClick represents a routine business development, [...]

Friendster has introduced a new feature on its social networking site called "Fan Profiles" which lets bands, companies, celebrities, nonprofits and other groups promote themselves.

Fan Profiles are a separate account from a standard Friendster profile and is listed differently in friends lists.  Fan profiles have more features including mass email capabilities, contact list management and [...]