iTunes Addresses MiniStore Privacy Concerns Apple iTunes almost brought upon itself the label of Apple SpyTunes after launching the Apple iTunes MiniStore, which is a service which gathers information about listener habits and transmits those habits to Apple where your user profile is stored and constantly tweaked. The way Apple’s MiniStore worked last week was [...]

Apple & Yahoo Stock Bubble? Or Inflated Expectations Inflated Expectations, Inevitable Disappointment. So Apple missed too (net income doubles but falls short of estimates) … But the company’s shares weren’t off as much as Yahoo! yesterday after missing analysts’ estimates by A PENNY. There were blog postings here and there and a few articles today [...]

Executive Linked to Livedoor Scandal Commits Suicide Adding to Japan’s Livedoor stock scandal was the suicide of Hideaki Noguchi, vice president of H.S. Securities Co., which was raided along with Livedoor by Japanese Securities & Exchange authorities this week. Noguchi reportedly slit his wrists in a capsule hotel located on the Japanese tropical island of [...]

Yahoo Launching Bloglines Style RSS service? Search Engine Journal reported earlier this week that Yahoo has acquired the assets of RSS service SearchFox, which announced recently that it would be shutting down later in January. SearchFox provides a very similar style of RSS aggregation/ reading as does Bloglines, and although I didn’t become a regular [...]

Gannett Media Invests in 4Info Mobile Search Gannett has made a minority investment in the 4INFO mobile search services company. Gannett also has entered into a marketing and distribution agreement with 4INFO, both companies said. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Collaboration between the companies will begin with USA TODAY and be introduced [...]

Google AdRadio Google makes another sort of local push.. into radio, buying dMarc Broadcasting of Newport Beach, California. There’s a reported downpayment of just over $100 million and more than $1 billion if performance targets are met over three years. dMarc is a media buying service and digital automation provider for radio. Here’s how the [...]

Internet Users Judge Sites in Fraction of a Second New research released indicates that users take much less time than expected to critique a website. In light of this research it is important for website owners to realize how big an impact that initial response is. Therefore in this article we dig a little deeper [...]

Amazon.com Picks ZoomInfo for A9 People Search ZoomInfo.com is now the default source of people search info for Amazon’s A9.com search engine. Here’s a rundown from the press release : People looking for background information on a new acquaintance, business partner, neighbor or vendor can simply select the “People” box on the A9.com homepage and [...]