Posted in Business, Media, Websites, Web 2.0, Marketing on March 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Do you sell anything online? Do you buy or sell online advertising? If you do and have been doing it long enough, you know how valuable it is to know the conversion statistics for different types of traffic. You could spend a lot of time and money doing trial and error, but […]
Posted in Business, Media, United States Companies, Websites, Web 2.0 on November 20th, 2006 No Comments »
Which Web 2.0 site is the most popular? I’ll use two methods to find out…
Following the number of searches may be inaccurate because some sites don’t get as much traffic from search engines relative to others, but it does show what people what to find and are actively typing in, so it has merit.
Provided […]
Posted in Business, Media, Websites, Web 2.0 on November 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Al-Jazeera shook up established media in the Middle East, and it is guaranteed to do the same as its English version launches in the West. It is in fact launching the first English language news channel to be based in the Middle East. This is old news, though. What’s new is that […]
Posted in Business, Media, United States Companies, Websites on November 8th, 2006 No Comments »
There’s rarely been doubt that Google is “master of its domain.” But when newspapers and other traditional media sources start clambering to work with the Goog, it makes one wonder whether the company’s dominance can extend beyond its natural realm.
Word is that Google is marrying its existing technology, which allows advertisers to better pinpoint […]
Posted in Business, Forex, Commodities, Stocks, Equities, Media, Fixed Income on November 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Read any semi-sophisticated financial mag or publication and you’ll see the same terms used over and over. The same five to ten catch phrases are used daily to explain a wide variety of market movements. The classics? “Reserve diversification” explains the forex market’s gyrations, “inflation fears” are to blame for falls in stocks and rises […]
Posted in Business, Economics, Media, Fundamental Analysis on October 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
This is old news but underreported and rather relevant. It seems that, according to a semi-recent survey from the University of Maryland, the French are, to say the least, not fans of capitalism. Not only are most French in doubt about the value of free enterprise, but most have low opinions of both […]
Posted in Business, Stocks, Equities, Media on October 26th, 2006 1 Comment »
With online news being so accessible and free, how long will companies be able to keep high circulation and ad revenues? Some say longer than most people think.
Gatehouse Media, which owns 75 local papers (and some websites) had their IPO yesterday and the share price rose 18%.
Former GE CEO, Jack Welch is eyeballing the Boston […]
Posted in Business, Trading, Forex, Trading Psychology, Media, Fundamental Analysis on October 26th, 2006 No Comments »
Central bankers, especially in the US and Eurozone, try to be as methodical as possible. The market, however, tends to overreact to near-term news and get out of line with real central bank expectations. Weeks ago, the markets had priced in that the Fed would not hike again, and might even pause prior to the […]