http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog All things Internet (internet marketing, internet news, search engine marketing, and more!) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:24:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Internet portal Yahoo! puffed its chest out today and insisted it would not yield to Microsoft’s $42 billion offer, despite the fact that no white knight seems to be around to save it from a takeover. In a letter addressed to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, the Yahoo! board insisted that ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/yahoo-tells-microsoft-ballmer-offer-too-low/2008/04/07/ Laurence Hooper and Dan Goodman (former AOL), created Loladex, a local search application for Facebook.  The two men took some of their AOL earnings and founded Loladex, which launched end of March, 2008.  We added this application to Facebook and were sad to see it was focused on Washington DC; ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/new-facebook-application-loladex-review/2008/04/06/ Wikipedia, the community driven encyclopedia, passed a huge milestone this week in the form of 10 million articles in over 250 languages. As explained by Emily Chang, the 10 millionth article was a biography of a 16th century English goldsmith and painter named Nicholas Hilliard, written by user named Pataki ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/wikipedia-over-10000000-articles/2008/04/06/ No one else in the industry has been able to compete with Google, so it may be that Google's biggest disruptors will come from within.  Google will likely have to increase cash salaries and outright stock grants to retain its best people. This will likely further pressure the company's profit ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/ex-googlers-launching-startups/2008/04/05/ Microsoft Corp. sent a letter to the Yahoo Board of Directors Saturday setting a three-week deadline for moving forward on its more than $40 billion buyout offer. The letter signed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Microsoft will take its case directly to Yahoo shareholders and work to elect a new ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/microsoft-gives-yahoo-deadline-on-offer/2008/04/05/ Below are some of the sites our team reviews on a daily basis.  If you have not visited the sites below, we strongly recommend checking each of them out to gain marketing knowledge: Advertising Age http://www.adage.com/ eMarketer http://emarketer.com CNet http://Cnet.com IMediaConnection http://imediaconnection.com/search/index.asp Interactive Advertising Bureau http://iab.net Marketing Vox http://www.marketingvox.com/ Online Media Daily http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showTodaysEdition&art_type=13 Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com/ Search Engine Watch http://searchenginewatch.com/ WebmasterWorld.com http://www.webmasterworld.com/index.htm iClick Solutions http://www.iClickSolutions.com http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/search-marketing-news-and-information-list/2008/04/04/ Defeating click fraud is a data problem, pure and simple, according to a post from Google on its blog. That better data makes for better tools to combat click fraud isn't exactly Earth-shattering news, but Google's comments come at a sensitive time for the company. While Google cracked open the doors surrounding ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/pay-per-click-fraud-attack-plan-revealed-by-google/2008/04/01/ YouTube Insight was just launched and is a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. Video uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed, as well as how popular they are.  We post a ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/youtube-offers-video-analytics/2008/03/27/ A new version of Mozilla's popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp's dominant Internet Explorer. The program's creators told Reuters on Thursday that the privately-held company's trial version of Firefox 3 browser is ready ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/mozilla-says-firefox-3-ready/2008/03/21/ Changes are afoot at Facebook (per iMedia Connection). The once red-hot social network has bid farewell to Owen Van Natta, the CRO who helped the company secure a $240 million investment from Microsoft, and now there are reports that it's looking for a high-level executive to serve as a kind ... http://www.iclicksolutions.com/blog/facebook-looks-for-zuckerbergs-equal/2008/02/23/