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The Motley Fool
March 17, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Mixing and Mingling With Yahoo! Of all the people who adopted Blogger during the past year of blog buzz, it seems difficult to imagine that many will relocate their blogs unless Yahoo! and its rivals provide differentiation and features they just can't refuse.   |
The Motley Fool
January 11, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Murdoch Magnifies MySpace News Corp.'s head honcho outlines some major initiatives for its hot new property MySpace.com, with plans to keep users on the site longer, thus increasing the value of its online ads. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Yahoo! Doesn't Get the Joke Yahoo! is striking up combination talks with Time Warner's AOL and News Corp.'s MySpace. What market watchers fail to point out is that any kind of combination is likely to end up with a lower share price for Yahoo!. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
News Corp. Plays It Safe Will an ad campaign focused on Internet safety for teens save MySpace from bad PR? Given the here-today, gone-tomorrow elements of social networking, it's likely not going to be an easy tightrope to walk. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
Michael J. Miller |
A Nation of Searchers Search sites in general, and Google in particular, are growing rapidly. This past year has also seen significant growth in MySpace and other Internet communities. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Frank Rose |
Microsoft's Bid for Yahoo Is All About Big-Budget Brand Advertising If the Yahoo purchase goes through, a company like Microsoft needs more than reach. It also needs the technology to deliver the right ads to the right eyeballs at the right time and come back with a precise measurement of the results. |
InternetNews
July 11, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Beware, MySpace Video Enthusiasts Adware company Zango does not tolerate partners who post content on MySpace or other social-networking sites. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Microsoft Plants Another Flag on Spaces Microsoft launched Windows Live Spaces today, extending its integration across different components of Windows Live. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
AOL's Web 2.0 Aspirations For the most part, AOL's future plans are the same old story. If AOL's going to recover its geek cred and lure users in for social networking, it's going to need some serious innovation -- not just a rehash of everyone else's ideas. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
AOL's Mobile Potential Can Time Warner's AOL make a go of mobile marketing? Rumors of a potential acquisition suggest it plans to try. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2008
Anders Bylund |
Google Shakes Up Social Networking Rather than designing a social network, and then adding some useful content (think Facebook or MySpace), Google is approaching networking from the other side. |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google Can DoubleClick, Not Double Quick Regulators in Europe finally open the door for Google to acquire display advertising giant DoubleClick. |
InternetNews
December 2, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN Goes to The Blogs Microsoft's MSN launched a blogging tool that ties in with its home media technology plays. Called MSN Spaces, the beta is part of an update to MSN's suite of communication services. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Does AOL Matter? If AOL battles MySpace.com for social-networking supremacy, it won't be much of a fight. How does AOL expect to sway the masses from the platforms that they already use and trust? Leaving America Online is easier than leaving MySpace. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
AOL's MySpace Killer? AOL today said that it is building a social-networking site likely to compete with News Corp.'s MySpace.com. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Finally Hits Blog Scene Late to the party, Yahoo joins other search entities with social networking and blogging services of its own. |
The Motley Fool
March 6, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Continental Breakfast This DoubleClick ad is taking 11 months to load. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
News Corp. Seeks Online Job Security Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. takes a stake in an employment-related search engine. Whether News Corp.'s cash infusion in Simply Hired will be money well spent is debatable, but shareholders should expect more of the same. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Thanks for the Ad, MySpace News Corp.'s leading social networking site has its eyes on the search engine marketing prize. |
The Motley Fool
April 10, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Ol' Yahoo! Switcheroo New players enter into Microsoft and Yahoo!'s buyout battle. |
InternetNews
July 14, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Is There Money in MySpace? It's official. MySpace is the most popular stop for members having lots of time on their hands. But who cares that the social-networking behemoth is so popular if it isn't making any money? |
InternetNews
August 11, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Deal Bails Out MySpace With Google on board, can MySpace's advertising revenues finally rise with the tide? |
The Motley Fool
June 27, 2007
Steven Mallas |
AOL's Blogging the Line Time Warner's AOL is offering up yet another initiative to differentiate itself from all of its online competition. This time, it has to do with the news. |
The Motley Fool
August 15, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
Fool on Call: MySpace Ramps Up In its fourth-quarter conference call News Corp. addressed the continued success of MySpace, the social-networking site that is turning personal profiles into big corporate profits. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Can a Geek Get the Girl? Microsoft offers a new recipe for its social networking Web site's success: humility. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
MySpace's Fuzzy Future The game's not over for the current social-networking king. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
August 22, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Friendster's VC Hopes Rest on Patent Wishes Social network Friendster got some venture capital, but the figure doesn't hold up to other deals. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Young adults and young families played big parts in this week's Wall Street flick. A new "friend" on MySpace... The Mickey Mouse march... |
The Motley Fool
August 14, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
AOL Takes Off With Userplane Time Warner's AOL acquires a Web-based chat and IM company. Investors, take note. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Kevin Kelleher |
MySpace and Friends Need to Make Money. And Fast. Large social networking sites need to target consumers and combine elements of the social and commercial experience to increase advertisers' success on their pages. |
The Motley Fool
May 15, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
AOL's Third Act Time Warner's online arm aims for a bigger role in mobile advertising. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2008 |
Google Digs In For Economic Slide Advertising deals in place, Google is ready to ride out economic downturn. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Socially Disturbing MySpace News MySpace's woes spell trouble for smaller social networking sites. |
BusinessWeek
January 30, 2006
Jon Fine |
AOL: MySpace Invader AOL is launching a social network off its instant messenger. |
InternetNews
September 24, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Fox Interactive Sets Its Sites Free Thanks to advertisers, mobile users hitting sites such as IGN, FOXSports, AskMen, RottenTomatoes.com and that social network MySpace will be able to do so for free. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Ninjas and Online Business Models The question for large online companies such as Google and Yahoo is: How can they turn online popularity into bankable dollars? Advertising is still the way to go. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
MySpace's Safety Dance Will News Corp. stumble and fall as it tries to bolster safety on MySpace? |
The Motley Fool
January 14, 2008
Adam J. Wiederman |
Worst Stock for 2008: Yahoo! This analyst feels that Yahoo! simply cannot compete against Google, and has chosen Yahoo! to be the worst stock of 2008. |
InternetNews
May 6, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
AOL Offers Free Blogging Tools AOL offers free software that lets users update journals via IM. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 16, 2006
Sean Silverthorne |
Is MySpace.com Your Space? Given the backlash, is MySpace a safe bet for advertisers? |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Too Generous? Google is aiming for incremental ad revenue. Its lack of any email services to upsell -- like Yahoo! and Hotmail do -- means that it can focus on driving as much traffic as possible to serve up as many relevant ads as it can produce. Investors should just be grateful. |
BusinessWeek
November 12, 2007
Catherine Holahan |
So Many Ads, So Few Clicks Can more targeted pitches on Facebook and other sites reverse the shrinking response to online ads? |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Yahoo!: Get Out of My Space The Internet giant gets miffed over headlines that say MySpace was No. 1. Yahoo! investors probably shouldn't worry too much. The company is still innovating, even if it gets less attention than Google or MySpace in the process. |
The Motley Fool
June 23, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Done? The search-engine giant is in trouble if it loses relevance. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2006
Stephen Ellis |
Is Facebook Worth $2 Billion? Social networking is hot, but not hot enough to justify a price tag this high. These companies need to sustain hearty growth if they're to maintain their current valuations. Buyer beware. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Microsoft Searches for Answers Microsoft has abandoned plans to buy Yahoo!, for now, but it may be making a play for Yahoo!'s search business. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Fool on the Street: Bon Voyage, AOL Will Time Warner have trouble shifting AOL from its traditional subscriber-driven service to a new ad-based business model? |
InternetNews
October 21, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Layoffs, Falling Profits: Yahoo Takes a Beating Amid a steadily worsening climate, Yahoo takes a hit in third quarter on slowing ad spending. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Friendster Hitches Onto Facebook Platform Social-networking pioneer Friendster is striking an agreement with rival Facebook to roll out support for Facebook's developer standard. |
InternetNews
April 10, 2008 |
AOL, News Corp. Add New Twists to Yahoo's Saga Alliances keep forming just as Yahoo appears out of aces in its effort to thwart Microsoft. |
