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How much money can you make from selling domains? This is a business model that has generated a lot of controversy simply because there are those who deliberately infringe on an existing company’s trademark (domain name) with the hopes that they could eventually profit from the sale.
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Google and Facebook are in a hot dash to acquire Twitter, rumours has it. The two web giants are out to outdo each other in what would most like determine who will become the King of the web jungle.
Twitter recorded an outstanding 200 million subscription in 2010. According to the report, Googl....
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Federated Media Publishing has acquired BigTent which is a social-networking community for women with a focus on parenting. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
BigTent functions as a platform that links advertisers with a huge target; the network allows women to form groups accor....
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Facebook users may notice a new subscription feature while checking out what's new in the lives of their friends. Available among a select group of users, the feature allows users to subscribe to friends and receive notifications whenever the person they're subscribed to changes their status, or pos....
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Facebook recently teamed up with TripAdvisor to let users get advice and reviews from friends when planning tips. TripAdvisor shows a list of a user’s Facebook friends and the places they have visited. This way, users can easily find a friends review of a destination and read about their experienc....
More » It’s been rumored that Google is negotiating with several Hollywood movie studios to launch a pay-per-view streaming move site, which may be available before the end of 2010.
YouTube would somehow be connected with this project, and Google would direct new users to the site using it’s search engine and Hollywood movie studio affiliations. YouTube has already been a Google guinea pig for the movie rental business. A few months ago, independent films were made available, followed by a more mainstream selection a few weeks later. While the service wasn’t a huge financial success, it did allow Google to test the service and work out the kinks in the process.
The rollout of this new project may be Google’s answer to Apple’s new version of the Apple TV platform being released later in the week. At this time, it’s unknown what kind of competition Google can be to pay-per-view giants like Apple and Amazon, but it’ll be interesting to find out.
