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Facebook launched a new "Facebook for Business" Web page that teaches smaller merchants how to set up a profile and create Facebook ads and deals. The move comes a week after Google+ shut down company-created profiles, restricting the social network to individual users. (GigaOm)
* Fox Broadcasting (NWS) plans to limit next-day streaming of its shows on Hulu to paying customers of approved cable and satellite distributors and subscribers to Hulu Plus; ABC (DIS) is reportedly thinking about doing the same thing. (The New York Times)
* The Google+ Punch List: 21 items Google (GOOG) must add to its new social network. (Launch)
* Electronic Arts's (ERTS) fiscal first quarter earnings surpassed analyst predictions with a profit of $221 million on revenues of $999 million, compared to the year earlier when it reported profits of $96 million on sales of $815 million. (All Things D)
* Meanwhile, Amazon's (AMZN) second quarter sales climbed 51% to $9.9 billion, while profits dipped 8% to $191 million. CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement that the Kindle 3G with ads is now the bestselling Kindle model. (TechCrunch)
* Over at The Atlantic Wire, Rebecca Greenfield argues that Apple's (AAPL) recent decision to enforce a 30% cut for all sales made via e-reader apps is a no-win situation for everybody, from customers to e-reader companies themselves. (The Atlantic Wire)
* Why Microsoft (MSFT) won't dump its Bing search engine business. (Redmondmag)
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* With just a 27% share of the U.S. search market, Reuters argues Microsoft should find a buyer for online search engine Bing. (Reuters via The New York Times)
* Google is revising its approach towards Google + users who for one reason or another don't use their full, real names MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jul 26, 2011 7:53 AM ET
Customers have moved to the digital realm -- but big-brand advertisers are following reluctantly.
By Stacy Cowley, CNNMoney tech editor
FORTUNE -- There's a disconnect between big brands and their customers. People are spending more and more time online and on their gadgets, but advertisers remain wary about shifting their spending into the digital realm. Internet analyst turned venture capitalist Mary Meeker estimates that there's a $50 billion gap between where the money MORE
Jul 20, 2011 5:19 PM ET
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"It's ridiculous."
-- a Twitter investor on the social network's $7 billion-plus private-market valuation (Silicon Alley Insider)
Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images
A U.S. appeals court ruled today that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, must accept the $65 million settlement reached with Facebook in 2008. Wrote Chief Judge Alex Kozinski: MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 12, 2011 5:00 AM ET
The shoe, as the say, is now officially on the other foot.
In a move which has shown how much the competitive landscape has moved in the past decade, Microsoft (MSFT) filed a formal complaint with the E.U. Commission over what it sees as anti-competitive tactics used by Google (GOOG).
Microsoft is still reeling from its own anti-trust settlement in the E.U. just two years ago. The decade long fight ended with Microsoft MORE
Seth Weintraub - Mar 31, 2011 9:01 AM ET
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The Telegraph reports that Steve Jobs was reportedly blocked from knighthood because the Apple CEO refused an invitation to speak at the Labour Party conference. (Other notable honorary knights include Bill Gates and Apple collaborate-U2 frontman Bono.) The info comes from a former senior Labour Party MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Mar 2, 2011 5:00 AM ET
Hoping to keep up the the Bings and Facebooks of the world and ideally pass them, Google now integrates connections into search results.
If Facebook won't let Google (GOOG) have access to its social graph, it is pretty clear that Google will go everywhere else, including its own Blogger platform, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo (YHOO) Flickr.
The idea is pretty simple. When you log into Google, your friends on Twitter/Blogger/Flickr/LinkedIn, etc who have promoted MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 17, 2011 10:38 AM ET
Gregg Abbott's office seeks special AdWords source as well as other documents and executive interviews.
Google's (GOOG) government woes continue as Texas's Antitrust Investigators are seeking information on the "manual overriding or altering of" search result rankings.
The order is similar to a subpoena, compelling a company to turn over documents and make executives available for interviews.
State investigators also want Google documents on rivals Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s Bing and Yahoo! (YHOO) Inc. and complaints MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 15, 2011 6:13 PM ET
...and now has to deal with the repercussions from Google.
The NYTimes did an expose over the weekend on a name brand company who apparently outsourced their Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to a shady SEO firm.
J.C. Penney was established in 1916, long before search engines were even imaginable. They find themselves in a precarious place, having been caught trying to juice their search results by Google.
Most companies who do this sort of thing MORE
Seth Weintraub - Feb 14, 2011 11:38 AM ET
The facts are all out but the commentary continues.
Here's one humorous view of the Google(GOOG) Bing controversy last week from the cartoonists Nitrozac and Snaggy from Joy of Tech .
Credit: Joy of Tech
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