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Pre-adoption key to smooth cloud rollout
News Cloud service adopter offers tips for organizations also thinking of moving onto cloud computing, touting benefits of pre-adoption preparation.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Software, Google Inc., Security, Information Technology, Backup, Singapore, Small And Medium Business, SLA
eBay equips itself to face growing competition
News Although competition from social networks and entertainment sites make it challenging for eBay, the online marketplace says it is poised to retain users.
Tags: E-commerce, MySpace, eBay Inc., Southeast Asia, entertainment, social networking, YouTube Inc., network, revenue, blog
Firefox achieves 10 percent market share
News Open source browser hits a new high, but uptake in the UK is lagging.
Tags: Web browsers, Open source
Adobe to buy Omniture for US$1.8B
News Calling the move a "game changer", Adobe's CEO says acquisition of the Web analytics company will help customers looking to better monetize their content.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Adobe Systems Inc., Web Analytics, Macromedia Inc., senior vice president, SEC, acquisition, game, Data warehousing/business intelligence
Microsoft ditches Web analytics effort
News Software maker is discontinuing the beta of a tool that would have competed with Google Analytics, Omniture, and others.
Tags: Web services, Microsoft Corp., Web Analytics, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Tool, Google Analytics, Microsoft adCenter, business intelligence, analytics, blog
Microsoft closing the book on Encarta
News The software maker decides to shelve its online encyclopedia, no doubt due to the growth of alternatives such as Wikipedia.
Tags: Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Web Analytics, Microsoft Windows Live, Encyclopedia, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Encarta.com, layoff, Wikipedia, Digital media
Bing sees slight uptick in July
News Microsoft's Bing gained a little more search market share in July and now stands at nearly 10 percent, according to new figures by Web analytics company.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Analytics, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search Engine, Yahoo Search, U.S., analysis, Web, Web browsers
Adobe to cut 9 percent of workforce
News Elimination of 680 full-time jobs comes as the software maker tries to align costs in the face of lagging sales. They follow a 9 percent reduction within the Omniture unit
Tags: Business development/management, Business structures, Adobe Systems Inc., Omniture Inc., Web analytics company, restructuring, software, job, Workforce, Sales
Google tech tweak reveals plan for faster search
News What's a search engine referrer string? You probably don't need to know. But when Google changed its string, it showed a plan to display search results more quickly.
Tags: Search, Java, Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, software, programming language, Search Result, JavaScript, blog, Web Site
Device identification in online banking is privacy threat?
News Civil liberties attorney says antifraud technology that tags or queries devices used for online banking is a privacy invasion.
Tags: Privacy, Network security, Wells Fargo & Co., online banking, computer, RSA Security Inc., analytics, bank, U.S., information technology
Google to do hardware?
News Google could be about to shift its focus from software and search to hardware.
Bumpy start for Google analytics giveaway
News Free service that lets businesses monitor Web site traffic falls victim to a glitch or two, leaving users without data.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, Web services
Write your name in the Firefox code
News Fans of the open-source browser have the chance to "immortalize" their names in Firefox 2, the Mozilla Foundation says.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers
Web analytics: One hot career path
News The demand for Web analytics--people who analyze how visitors navigate a Web site--is poised to explode over the next five to 10 years.
Dot-coms see gold in consumer data
News Web analytics is becoming a hot niche in a cold Internet advertising market, as a slew of companies launch projects to make sense of consumer data collected online.
