Ever since rebuffing Microsoft’s takeover bid, Yahoo has been keen to placate angry shareholders, and Carol Bartz’s latest moves are doing that still. But by failing to keep up with true social networking a la Facebook, Yahoo r…
Facebook ruled the Internet in 2010. It was both the most-searched term — accounting for 2.11% of all searches — and the top-visited website, attracting 8.93% of all U.S. visits, compared to Google’s 7.19%.
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As more shoppers spend their money online, retailers are deciding where to put their e-marketing. According to a new ForeSee study, promotional emails were still far more effective at driving traffic to retail sites than social…
The biggest names in social networking — Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn — haven’t yet gone public, but their stock does get traded by the very rich on private exchanges. Now, some of those transactions have raised the …
Among Wednesday’s top online stories for investors: Is Google shopping around to buy an alternative to Groupon? Why did Tony Conrad sell about.me to AOL so quickly? And how can investors cash in right now on Facebook’s $41 bill…