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• iPhone Frenzy, "All You Can Eat" Data, Mobile Internet Now At "Critical Mass"
  We will probably look back on last year's announcement of the iPhone (1.0) as the seminal or galvanizing event of the mobile internet. In fact the events leading up to the iPhone were a decade or more in the making, but it's the single moment when the mobile Internet came...
• Using Google Mobile App On My iPhone
  So, today, I got my iPhone and I decided to do a quick pictorial on using Google's Mobile App for the iPhone. So here is my walkthrough:...
• Icahn Settles With Yahoo, Joins Board
  As Greg noted earlier, Carl Ichan was seeking control of Yahoo's board. Instead, Yahoo and Ichan came up with a compromise, giving Ichan 3 of the 11 seats on Yahoo's board. Eight members of the board will stand for reelection, including Yang. Robert Kotick will not be up for reelection....
• Yahoo Rejects Joint Microsoft/Icahn Deal But Open To $33 Per Share All-Microsoft Sale
  Microsoft has once again put in an offer to buy Yahoo's search assets -- and once again been rejected. The latest offer was a joint one made by Microsoft and Carl Icahn. Yahoo slammed what it described "take it or leave" it offer and the one day deadline that...
• Microsoft-Icahn-Yahoo Dealings Degenerate Into Trading Public Accusations
  In the latest and perhaps strangest escalation of name calling and "he-said/she-said" accusations, Yahoo, Yahoo insurgent shareholder Carl Icahn, and Microsoft have all issued dueling press releases in the wake of the latest Yahoo rejection of the latest, somewhat unexpected Microsoft (now + Icahn) search takeover offer....
• Report: AOL Merger Or Sale Likely In The Next Two Weeks
  Reuters is reporting that TimeWarner is seeking to strike a deal with either Yahoo or Microsoft for AOL. It says that talks between the companies "have taken on new urgency ahead of Yahoo's Aug 1 shareholders meeting."...
• Google Reports $5.37 billion In Q2 Revenues, Microsoft Reports Full Year Revenues of $60 Billion
  Google had a strong quarter, given the challenging US and global economic climate. Revenues were basically flat vs. Q1 (+3 percent) but grew 39 percent as compared with the same quarter a year ago. AdSense and paid clicks were down slightly. Google may not be "recession proof," but it's more...
• Google Has Over 75% Of US Search Ad Market
  New figures out on search advertising spend from Efficient Frontier show Google continues to dominate the market, stats that will no doubt complicate the company's goal to gain approval of its deal with Yahoo on search ads. However it is interesting how in Japan, it's a much more 50/50...
• American Airlines And Google Settle Keyword Lawsuit
  American Airlines Drops Google Trademark Lawsuit from Bloomberg reports that the two sides have settled the search ad legal dispute. Each side has agreed to pay their own legal fees and the terms of the settlement were not disclosed. American Airlines sued Google about a year ago over trademark infringement...
• Google Sued For Quality Of Ads On AdSense for Domains
  Google Sued For Selling Ads On Parked Domains from InformationWeek reports Google was slapped with a class action lawsuit over the AdSense for Domains product. In short, advertisers are upset with the quality of traffic driven through that program and feel that their money was taken from them without any...
• Hold On -- Issues Remain Over Google & Viacom's Deal On YouTube Viewing Privacy
  Google and Viacom have reached an agreement meant to ease privacy concerns about YouTube records being handed over to Viacom through a court order. However, there remain some questions about how exactly the "anonymizing" of these records will actually work. Until those are answered, I wouldn't breathe a complete...
• comScore: Yahoo & Microsoft Gain Share But Google Breaks 7 Billion Searches
  It's search popularity statistics time again, and I'm starting off with the latest figures from comScore. Finally, a change -- Google slips while Yahoo and Microsoft gain. Trouble for the Big G? Not really -- because in terms of raw number of searches, June 2008 was another record breaker...
• Google Now The UK's Top "Superbrand"
  Google has moved to the top of another brand survey. This one, in the UK, is based on a consumer survey that involved 1,000 UK brands. Google topped other high-profile consumer brands such as Microsoft, Mercedes Benz, Nike and BMW. Earlier this year, research firm Millward Brown (a unit of...
• Very Recent & Addictomatic: Finding What People Are Buzzing About Right Now!
  Tom Churm pinged me about a new tool that he's crafted, Very Recent, designed to pull back top results from "recency search engines," for lack of a better word. Blog search, news search, social news plus Twittering, all in one. It needs a lot of work, but I found...
• Google Video Now Offering "Personalized" Video Recommendations
  The Google Video Blog announced the launch of personalized video recommendations, based on your search history. To see them, make sure you are logged into Google and visit video.google.com. In the middle of the page, you should see, "Recommended videos." Google uses your past search history and your past video...
• No, The Toolbar Does Not Lead Google To Index My Content
  Matt Cutts of Google has posted another one of his debunking theories post, this time on the Google Toolbar aiding Google in indexing content. Matt said, "if Ken Simpson is implying that the Google Toolbar led to these urls being crawled, then he’s mistaken." Ken Simpson was paraphrased in an...
• Twitter & Summize Tie The Knot
  The rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been confirmed. Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform has acquired Summize, a search engine that searches Twitter. You can read all the news at Techmeme and also make sure to check out Danny's write up on Summize named Summize Gains "Local"...
• Google Trends Showing a Swastika (卐)?
  Dave Shaw notified me of a weird character being displayed as a "hot trend" on Google Trends this morning. It appears that Google is displaying a swastika as 卐. This appears to be some sort of chinese character, but the swastika is well known for usage in Nazi Germany, and...
• More Google Trends Manipulations
  Another day, another Google Trends abuse. As spotted at Google Blogoscoped Forums, Google Trends on July 13th was showing "ǝlƃooƃ noʎ ʞɔnɟ" as the number one hot trend amongst blogs, news sites and so on. I personally see it, when I navigate back to July 13th in Google Trends....