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Asia dominates global outsourcing list
News Nineteen cities from the region have made it to the top 50 list of emerging global outsourcing cities, with Cebu City in the Philippines in first place.
Tags: Outsourcing, IT outsourcing, Business, City, Outsourcing, Philippines, Shanghai, Business Process, BPO, product development
The case against Google-Yahoo
News news analysis With the U.S. Department of Justice confirming it plans to look into any Google-Yahoo partnership, foes are lining up their arguments.
Tags: Search, Internet advertising, Mergers, Acquisitions, Antitrust, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, professor
Media execs size up video's future on the Web
News Video may be the future on the Web but concerns still lurk on what is the best way to reap profit.
Tags: Web 2.0, Video, Advertiser, Google Inc., Advertisement, social networking, Media, video advertisement, Veoh Networks, managing director
Study paints Kindle e-reader a dark shade of green
News Are electronic readers better for the environment? An analysis by the Cleantech Group finds, when used to replace paper, Amazon's Kindle is less polluting over its lifetime.
Tags: Green IT, Carbon Emission, E-book, Cleantech Group, New York Times Co., carbon dioxide, Amazon Kindle, sustainability, media company, analysis
Cisco launches social-networking for businesses
News The world's largest maker of Internet infrastructure equipment is now helping big media companies build social-networking Web sites.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Hardware, Music, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Warner Music Group Corp., Tool, Eos, Scheinman
Yahoo reportedly considers deleting Zimbra
News Web e-mail software company may not fit into a media-oriented Yahoo, and so Zimbra could be on the block just two years after being acquired.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web servers, Zimbra, Interactive Advertising Bureau, chief marketing officer, Comcast Corp., e-mail company, media company, private equity
OpenAmplify developer's diary Part 1: Making the request
Techguide Justin James chronicles his process of using Hapax's OpenAmplify Web service to create an application which can match documents that have similar content or is identical to the source document.
Tags: Web services, Protocols and platforms, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, OpenAmplify Developer, WSDL, Web Browser, Dividend, client system, Developer
Time Warner CEO: No thanks to big media deals
News Jeff Bewkes says the company is not interested in bidding on NBC Universal or any other big media company because those deals typically fail.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, e-reader, CEO, Business Strategies & Functions, TV, America Online Inc., Cable, Comcast Corp., NBC Universal Inc., Time Warner Inc.
Cisco and Warner Music extend Web partnership
News Warner Music Group uses Cisco's Eos software service to create 12 more fan sites as the companies look to create new online entertainment opportunities.
Tags: Business applications, Web 2.0, Web services, Cisco Systems Inc., Warner Music Group Corp., entertainment, Eos, CEO, John Chambers, media company
Pirate Bay defendants found guilty
News District court in Sweden rules that all four defendants in the high-profile file-swapping case are guilty of having made copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing.
Tags: Piracy, Copyright, Peer to peer, Defendant, Sierra Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sunde, 20th Century Fox, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, File-sharing
Bartz as Yahoo CEO? New job, but strong resume
News Sure, selling software is different from selling ads. But Yahoo has more need for fresh eyes and new leadership than for media expertise.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, Search, Internet advertising, Autodesk Inc., Yahoo! Inc., CAD, Carol Bartz, software, chairman
M&A prospects better for small companies, new media
News Reports released this week show that small technology deals and ones related to nontraditional media are likely to fare better during this recession year.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Business, M&A, Database, online media, JEGI, Media, financial, marketing
LinkedIn looking for a suitor, maybe
News There is speculation that a big name prospective buyer is looking to acquire business social network LinkedIn.
Tags: Networking, Acquisitions, Plaxo Inc., Digg, social networking, Newsday, co-founder, board meeting, network, LinkedIn
Google-Digg acquisition talks fall through
News With talks of an acquisition in the final stage, Google reportedly decides not to buy the social-news site.
Tags: Acquisitions, Mergers, Legal, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Digg, RFC, Google News, TechCrunch
Schmidt: It's Google's duty to help fix ad business
News Google's CEO says the company has a "moral imperative" to help publishers with high-quality content find an ad-based business that works on the Internet.
Tags: Internet advertising, Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, monetization, text advertisement, co-founder, Eric Schmidt, revenue, media company
