Hollywood Reporter looks for Google’s next move. The item mentions potential acquisition targets: Infospace, AOL, and TiVO. In addition:
Other analysts proposed a combination of public and private firms Google might be eyeing, including emerging search companies like Blinkx, TVEyes and Convera Corp.
I’m not an expert on all of these, though I do recall that TV Eyes is already partnered with rival Yahoo.
InfoToday reports: Alacra, known for providing a wide range of business databases to enterprise customers, has decided to open up its content to on-demand purchasing by individual business professionals and consumers. The company has just launched the beta of its new Alacra Store, an e-commerce Web site that taps into 30 of Alacra’s premium content…
Tom Formeski over at SiliconValleyWatcher reports that the rumored Moreover deal is done and the buyer isn’t someone anyone I know was guessing: VeriSign is about to announce it acquired Moreover Technologies, the San Francisco based news aggregator. The acquisition price is around $25m according to SVW sources. I have to confess that I don’t…
USA Today: “Parents wringing their hands over their teens’ incessant cell phone use should chill — they might be interacting with authors. Publishers are plugging into the technology whose ringtones and vibrations attract teenagers’ undivided attention.”
Henry Copeland of BlogAds goes ballistic on those who call blogs consumer generated media: Calling blogs consumer-generated media is like calling sex the "clothless generation of heat, musk and mucus." The essential excitement and motivation just doesn’t come through, does it? He certainly gets wound up on the subject. And he has a point —…
comScore stirred up a hornet’s nest with its recent "Behaviors of the Blogosphere" report that attempts to quantify blog audiences. Jason Calacanis went on a rampage against the report, alleging it was biased since a rival blog network founder (Nick Denton) was a sponsor of the report. But now Jason raves about the Feedster 500,…
Earlier this week I blogged about Problems with Attensa, a new feed reader that integrates with Outlook. Word got to Mike Beale at Attensa and he reached out to me to see how he could help. I’ve now been using it successfully for a few days and am very impressed — both with the product…