Internet, Technology and Telecoms Financial news. Aggregated by Friend2 and Panos Ladas
Bear Stearns (a worldwide investment banking and securities trading and brokerage firm) published a financial report today for Yahoo!, citing recent comments from advertising agencies. According to the report, the advertisers agreed that Yahoo’s new ad system, codenamed Panama, performs better than Google’s Adword and MSN’s adCenter. Points that distinguish Yahoo’s system are:
Ease of [...]
Huge list of problems announced by Linden Lab on the Second Life blog. Last weeks’ software update, that creates the virtual world on users’ computers caused many problems and left users unable to access the system. Obviously, this effects Second Life’s economy and Linden Lab’s future as a viable business.
“Second Life”, the online virtual community, is experiencing an amazing growth of subscribers, almost doubling every two months. In the beginning of 2006 there were 100,000 subscribers, by October 2006 it reached 1 million and two months later, December 2006 it is about to reach 2 million subscribers. This rate increased dramatically the last two [...]
Second Life is in the news today (Tuesday December 5th, 2006) due to a series of problems that it had because of its popularity. This is the recipe of success:
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The world of Second Life is create by many small worlds all linked to similar neighbouring worlds. Each server can host up to 4 of these [...]
Amazon is expanding it’s services on the books-on-demand market in order to increase revenue by eliminating out-of-print commercial titles. Already Amazon has a huge digital archive of books that is uses at its “Search Inside the Book” technology and very well established partnerships with publishers. This gives Amazon two significant advantages against its competitors:
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