Monday, August 10, 2009
Oprah Winfrey Sued for $1 Trillion
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Watch President Barack Obama's Inauguration
Use This Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/national/inauguration09/main503703.shtml
Monday, December 22, 2008
Burger King Releases New Meat Scented Cologne
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Register to Vote Online
Monday, June 9, 2008
New and Faster iPhones Available
This month a new version of the iPhone will be available on the market. The iPhone 2.0 will have 3G wireless technology that will allow faster Internet access and surfing capabilities. It will allow users to download more business applications and social-networking programs. It will be available in the middle of June.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid
Microsoft Corp. has decided to withdraw its $42.3 billion bid on Saturday to buy Yahoo Inc. This came after an unsuccessful last try to negotiate a mutually acceptable sale price.
Microsoft was willing to pay as much as $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, but Yahoo’s board wanted at least $53 billion, or $37 per share. Microsoft could make a new bid later this year if Yahoo doesn’t recover after having more than two years of financial problems. Analysts feel that if things don’t change for Yahoo Inc. soon, their stock would decrease into the mid-teens and that would make it difficult for the company to turn down any future offers. Yahoo Inc. is considering an advertising partnership with Google and a merger with the Internet operations of Time Warner Inc.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Yahoo Lays Off 1,000 Workers
Yahoo Inc. is planning to lay off 1,000 of their 14,300 workers due to their 23 percent decrease in fourth-quarter profits and not being sure about their financial outlook for 2008. After the news was released, Yahoo shares hit their lowest levels in more than four years. Their market value has decreased more than 50 percent since the end of 2005.
Yahoo didn’t say which areas of its operations would be cut but some of the employees whose jobs are being eliminated might be offered new jobs in other parts of the company. Yahoo expects to pay between $20 million to $25 million for severance and other costs in the lay off. With the lay offs and cost cuttings, Yahoo could save more than$100 million dollars in costs and offset some of the financial loss that they expect from a re-negotiated partnership with AT&T Inc to provide high-speed Internet service. Yahoo and AT&T will share the revenue made through online advertising.
Yahoo hasn’t stopped making money but their profits fell by 12 percent in 2007 even though advertisers spent a lot of money on the Internet. The company is also working hard to try to attract more teenagers and young adults to the site.
Friday, January 4, 2008
China Putting Limits on Internet Video
Under the new policy, Websites that provide videos or allow people to upload videos have to get government permits and applicants have to be state-owned or state-controlled companies. The policy will also ban providers form broadcasting video that has national secrets, hurts the reputation of
The permits will have to be renewed every three years and video providers that commit major violations might be banned from providing online videos for five years. It is not clear if the popular Website YouTube will be affected since they are available in
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Tips To Save Money While Shopping Online
Before you purchase anything on the Internet it is a good idea to go to http://coolsavings.com or http://www.currentcodes.com, which both list thousands of coupon codes that you can use while shopping. Also, the website http://www.thebudgetfashionista.com has a database of current sales and has online coupons.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Donate to Charities By Using This Search Engine
Using the search engine at goodsearch.com donates a penny for each search to a charity of your choice.
Visit This Site: http://www.goodsearch.com/
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Google’s New Service Clashes with Wikipedia
Google’s new service coming out called “Knol” will allow people to write articles on their areas of expertise like the website Wikipedia does. The content will be free to access and authors of content on the site will be able to attach advertising to their writing and have a share of the revenue. Knol suppose to cover all topics like Wikipedia does and it is currently in the test phase but will be available to the public soon.
Read More: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316902,00.html
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Trade Your Old DVDs Online For Free
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Lesbian Gang Attacks Man on NY Subway
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Facebook Uses New Tracking Feature
Some users of the Facebook website are complaining that their recent marketing program is showing their purchases made online to their friends on the site. The new feature places a small box in the corner of Web browsers that keeps track of purchases made at Fandango, Overstock, and other online retailers. The box would alert users that information is about to be shared with Facebook unless they click “No Thanks.” The box would disappear after 20 seconds on its own if you don’t click anything and then consent to share information is automatically assumed. Users are given a second notice the next time they log on to Facebook, but they can miss it if they quickly click to visit a friend’s page or check e-mail.
The concept behind the idea of the tool is that if users see a friend buy something, they’d want to shop from the same place too or maybe buy the same item. Companies can even buy and ad next to the feed item with the friend’s picture. The tool raises concerns of privacy. Users can decline the sharing on a site-by-site basis, but they still have to be apart of the program.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Hannah Montana Tickets Cause Lawsuit
Thousands of Hannah Montana fans who weren’t able to get concert tickets could possible join a lawsuit against Hannah Montana’s fan club that was suppose to give them priority for seats. The Miley Cyrus Fan Club said that joining would make it easier to get tickets from her website but many members weren’t able to get tickets through the site. The website says that it does not guarantee the availability of tickets, but members who log on very soon after tickets become available will have a good chance to get them. Fan club members pay $29.99 per year to the website.
The lawsuit is against Interactive Media Marketing Inc and Smiley Miley Inc. They are seeking triple damages for all of the members of the lawsuit and attorney’s fees.
Hannah Montana, whose real name is Miley Cyrus, is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and she is the star of Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana.” Her “Best of Both Worlds” tour is supposedly the hottest concert of the year and shows sell out in as little as four minutes. Scalpers often get four or five times the face value of the tickets.
Visit the Hannah Montana Website: www.mileyworld.com/community/home