http://www.friend2financialnews.com Internet, Technology and Telecoms Financial news. Aggregated by Friend2 and Panos Ladas Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:00:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_54" align="alignright" width="500" caption="Economist Oh Fuck! Front Cover"][/caption] http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/economist-front-cover/ If you develop or publish web-based games you can become a beta user of AdSense for Games, by displaying video ads, image ads, or text ads within your online games to earn revenue. You'll be able to show these ads in placements you define. Google will sell in-game ad placements directly ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/news-of-the-day/gaming-the-adsense-game/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="232" caption="yahoo financial news"][/caption] Yahoo! ad revolution is the most important new from a financial aspect in the internet sector for today. Yahoo upgraded its online advertising system today with extra help from its newspaper partners in an effort to survive in a very competitive market. Yahoo Chief Executive ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/internet/yahoo-ad-revolution/ Yahoo! might announce an agreement to display search ads from Google. Yahoo! has been pursuing a broad agreement to carry search ads from Google, which it views as a way to boost its cash flow and bolster its claim to shareholders that it is worth more than Microsoft has offered. Such ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/adwords-yahoo-ads/ Second Life profitable? Linden Lab is a privatelly held company and this makes it difficult to answer if they succeeded to make Second Life profitable yet. We explored in the past the  Second Life economics but it's time to have an update on Linden Lab and Second Life 2008 financial situation. Linden ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/second-life-profitable/ Microsoft (MSN) adCenter adds ad technology Microsoft's latest acquisition of ad technology firm Rapt follows on the heels of Google formally closing its DoubleClick acquisition, underscoring the search giant's own ambitious push into display advertising. The ad technology deal strengthens Microsoft adCenter's (formerly MSN adCenter) set of ad business tools for ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/microsoft-adcenter-responds-to-adwords-and-yahoo/ Revver Acquired by LiveUniverse Online-video company Revver Inc., has been sold to online-entertainment network LiveUniverse for less than $5 million. Revver was one of the first video-sharing sites to tout the fact that it shared ad revenue with video creators. Revver does that by attaching advertising to user-submitted video clips. All ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/internet/revver-liveuniverse/ 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 ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/internet/yahoo-is-better-than-google-adwords-and-msn-adcenter-for-advertisers-and-investors/ If you take a look at Second Life's blog today (Wednesday, December 6, 2006) you will notice a huge list of problems announced by the company. Last weeks' software update, that creates the virtual world on users' computers caused many problems and left users unable to access the system. Obviously, ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/second-life-is-still-collapsing-and-why-big-companies-might-abandon-that-world/ “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 ... http://www.friend2financialnews.com/technology/why-second-life-is-collapsing-and-lidnen-lab-can-not-do-anything-about-it/