After the attempt to buy Groupon fell through, Google went ahead and created its own deals site, which is more or less a Groupon clone. Last month, Google offered Groupon a whopping 6 billion dollars, which the deals site turned down. Although rumors were rife about the search giant buying a smaller group to compete [...]
In successfully founding and running an online business, one of the most vital decisions you will make would be in respect to your business model. There are several models which have proven successful over time but none perhaps, has had the amazing success rate that the deals model has had in such a relatively short [...]
Finally, Google gets a spate of relief as Italy drops it antitrust investigation against the Search giant. Following a series of complaints by Italian newspaper publishers against Google in 2009, claiming that the company was using their material to generate advertising on the Google Italia news site, Italian regulators began an antitrust investigation into [...]
In the UK, the Regulators have decided to impose stringent measures on sponsored posts that appear on social networking sites and microblogging services, particularly Twitter.com The UK Office of Fair Trading began an investigation of Handpicked Media, a blog network. The issue was that the company and its agents were publishing sponsored posts without [...]
If you are a webmaster of site owner in Germany, using Google Analytics on your site could earn you a steep fine from the German government. Google Analytics is a tool provided free of charge by Google which lets webmasters monitor site traffic through detailed statistical analysis. It shows where traffic to the site [...]
