Yesterday saw Yahoo anounce earnings that took many in the industry by surprise. As Michael Arrington on TechCrunch (not a breakfast cereal for robots) summarised: Total revenue for the quarter was $1.8 billion, net revenues were $1.35 billion. Net Income…
The digital world is all a-Twitter this morning with the news that Alexa, the much maligned ranking system, is to change its methodology. In an announcement on its site, Alexa explains exactly what this will mean (well, almost): We now…
Things might be a bit quiet here till next week as I’m currently down under in Australia. What with catching up with friends from when I lived here back at the turn of the century (seems weird just writing that)…
There’s a great little feature in The Guide (the what’s on guide that comes with The Guardian on a Saturday) called All Ears. In it Michael Holden recounts weird & wonderful conversations he’s overheard. It may sound dull, but it…
I really don’t need to write about American Boy by Estelle, featuring Kanye West; it’s number 1 in the UK, the album will probably be in the same place next weekend and, if there was any justice in the world,…
Erykah Badu’s track Soldier has an amazing video which is very close to my heart; unfortunately she, or her record company, have seen fit to deny it to us (can’t find it anywhere), so you’ll have to take my word…
A high placed source at Google’s UK office has told me that the search giant is planning to change the revenue model for its market leading AdWords advertising platform. In a move that could affect everything from the proposed Microsoft…