http://www.maggieyeh.com Thoughts on Search, Advertising, Technology and anything else I find interesting Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:51:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Google Reader (1000+)Yahoo's M&A deal-makers are deciding right now whether or not to buy super-hot location-based startup Foursquare for ~$100 million, says a source close to bankers involved in Foursquare's current fundraising efforts.A source close to Yahoo told us a Foursquare-owned Yahoo "would be nice." This source told us "we've ... http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=102 News Corp. Throwing Away The Crown Jewel: Fox Audience NetworkNews Corp. isn’t beating around the bush with its digital assets. Rotten Tomatoes has been sold off to Flixster. Photobucket went to Ontela. IGN had 20% staff cuts, and MySpace is dealing with co-presidents.Fox Audience Network, the advertising arm for News ... http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=101 Apple : The New YorkerFor Apple, which has enjoyed enormous success in recent years, “build it and they will pay” is business as usual. But it’s not a universal business truth. On the contrary, companies like Ikea, H. & M., and the makers of the Flip video camera are flourishing ... http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=100 Why Investors Should Never Bet Against Founders, Even If They Want To Sell Before You DoSo what is this “entrepreneur thesis?” It’s the view that I back great entrepreneurs and help them pursue their dreams no matter what. Sometimes this will mean we collectively double down and try ... http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=99 Texting App Textfree Has Handled Over A Billion MessagesTextfree, Pinger's core app, lets users send and receive unlimited texts for a year for the $5.99 download price. The company also offers an ad-supported free version that limits users to 15 texts per day. http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=98 Veoh Finally Calls it Quits: Layoffs Yesterday, Bankruptcy Filing Soon | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsDVeoh, one of several well-funded startups that have tried and failed to cash in on the Web video boom, is finally calling it quits. The company let go of the remainder of its workforce ... http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=97 Lessons From Google’s Own Paid Search Campaigns: Forget The “Rules”It might be that Google simply isn’t trying to optimize the performance of their ads on their own website (since they don’t change their own bottom line by charging themselves for clicks). But it seems harder for me to believe that ... http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=96 Twilio’s Telephony API Now Lets Applications Send And Receive SMS MessagesBack in November 2008, we covered the launch of Twilio, a startup that’s akin to an Amazon Web Services for telephony apps. After signing up for a phone number, Twilio lets you integrate phone services into your application using intuitive ... http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=95 Grown Ups Obsess Over Facebook While Teens Are Sick of Blogging And TwitterMore good news for Facebook: Among adults, Facebook is currently the most commonly used online social network, according to a new study.Among the aged 30 and over crowd, 73% have a profile on Facebook. As for 18-29 year ... http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=94 Sun CEO's Lame Twitter Haiku Is Precisely Why He Had To Sell To Oracle"Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more http://www.maggieyeh.com/?p=93