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23 Feb 2009 Comments:
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After Meetic buying the European operations of Match.com last week, here’s another sign the online media landscape in Europe is changing in the face of a dire economy: pan-European online media company GoAdv will later today announce that it has proposed to acquire LeGuide.com, an 11-year old network of shopping portals operational in 14 European countries, for 50 million (about 64.5 million), and retain all of its staff and offices.
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Date:
22 Feb 2009 Comments:
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At a time when many people are saying innovation is dead along with the economy as we knew it, I can’t help but feel the hot breath of a surge in the power of the network. As Marc Andreessen reminds in his fascinating conversation with Charlie Rose, the Internet didn’t take off until the browser. The infrastructure was in place for some time already, but when the browser appeared, the TV generation sat up and took notice.
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Date:
21 Feb 2009 Comments:
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January is the peak season for visits to employment websites and
with unemployment numbers climbing ever higher, this year was no
exception. Each year, visits to employment websites peak the second
week of January. This year visits to websites in the Employment and
Training category were 17% higher than in January 2008. Growth is due
to continued natural growth for the category (see chart below
illustrating that visits have been growing for the past three years),
as well as rising unemployment rates and job uncertainty. Read the rest of this entry »