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In an apparent coordinated effort, Chinese state media on Saturday slammed Google as becoming a political tool--just days before the Web giant may announce its withdrawal from that country. The Web giant recently announced that it intended to stop censoring search results and might stop doing business in the country entirely. The company has been criticized in the past by privacy and human rights advocates for censoring search results deemed objectionable by the Chinese government.

Google's actions show that the world's biggest search engine company has abandoned its business principles and instead shows the world a face that is totally politicized   -China Radio International

 

 

I'm not sure if I've made one inadvertent comment too many about my liberal lords and masters, but whichever Web page I happen to visit in order to seek some temporary respite from my complicated life, there I find an ad suggesting I should buy a Nexus One. Actually, it's hard to call these things "ads." They're little pictures of the Nexus One. Some have no message to speak of.  

The Web has hit a point where tracking pageviews is useless for startups. There was a time when all you needed to succeed on the Internet were lots and lots of eyeballs, and the best way of measuring those eyeballs was by tracking pageviews (measuring exactly which pages on a website are viewed by individual visitors). The dot-com crash showed us that the eyeball-based business model was a failure.  

Google Inc. is expected to announce its next steps in China this week, according to a person briefed on the matter. The details of the Internet company's plan, reached after talks with Chinese officials failed to make progress, remain unclear. The person briefed on the matter said that the announcement could come as soon as Monday.  

For those that have a hard time believing that social media improves the positioning of a brand, you might be interested to learn that consumers engaged in social networks are more likely to purchase a product or service than those who have not been exposed. New research attests to the fact that over 60% of Facebook fans and Twitter followers are more likely to become consumers of a brand once engaged with these networks. In a study recently conducted by Chadwick Martin Bailey , a market research and co

We were very surprised we did not see more use of some of the social media outlets, even if just for advice   -Maria Veltre

 

This post describes our model of Microsoft 's ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) Income Statement for the third quarter of fiscal 2010, which will end on 31 March. The intent of our look-ahead exercises is to produce a baseline for identifying surprises, positive or negative, in the reported data. GCFR estimates are derived from guidance provided by company management, when available, and the company's historical financial results.  

Slamming Google for politicising its cyberspace row with the government, Chinese official media said the search engine's efforts to bring about change in local Internet rules was "ridiculous". Reports here said the American search engine, which has accused China of intrusive restrictions including censoring of e-mails by dissidents may quit China by early next month. "From groundlessly accusing the Chinese government of supporting hacker attack against it to pushing China to abandon the legal regulati  

It's the ad served while you are reading the news in the morning on an e-reader that knows you're at home and three blocks from a Starbucks. It's a loyalty program on your phone that, through a hotel-room sensor, sets the lights and thermostat and turns the TV to CNN when you walk in the door. It's finding a restaurant in a strange city on a Tuesday night, discovering that a store nearby stocks the TV you're looking for, or that a certain grocery on the way home has the cut of meat you need.

We think of location as a hugely important signal   -Paul Feng

 

A few months ago, a longtime print publisher exploring new employment in digital media met with Greg Coleman, the president and chief revenue officer of the Huffington Post. "He showed up to lunch in a suit," recalled Mr. Coleman. "I said, 'What are you doing with that suit?' This is somebody I really like. It's really simply a symbol of the past. It's a symbol of being in his big office running a magazine and failing to acknowledge that pages are way down." It was a small moment about a superficial e

It is tougher and a more narrow path   -J D Rehm