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Apple Ads' New Target: Windows 7 (See the Videos!)

Oct 22, 2009
Here are the three new Apple (AAPL) commercials trying to take a smack at the launch of Windows 7 (MSFT), the new operating system software from Microsoft. The “Get a Mac” advertising features the PC and Mac guys, as usual, but are quite...

Exclusive: Guess Who Else Is Coming to Dinner? Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook-Bing

Oct 21, 2009
In a stunning one-two punch, Microsoft will announce separate nonexclusive deals today with both Facebook and Twitter to integrate their real-time feed of status updates into the Bing search service. According to sources, Microsoft (MSFT) digital h...

Yahoo Adds Zimbra to the Garage Sale as It Tries to Shed What Isn't "You!"

Sep 21, 2009
According to numerous sources, Yahoo has also been shopping around Zimbra, the open-source email company it bought in late 2007 for $350 million. Zimbra is only one of the many assets of Yahoo (YHOO) that are now on the block, including its personal...

Huffington Post and Facebook Go "Social News," With Connect on Steroids

Aug 17, 2009
In an unusually robust collaboration using Facebook Connect, the Huffington Post is launching a feature on Monday called “HuffPost Social News,” which lets readers create a personalized social networking-like news page on the Huffington P...

Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck, Will Be Announced Within Next 24 Hours

Jul 28, 2009
Multiple sources close to the situation said that the online search and advertising deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has been struck and will be announced within the next 24 hours. While it is not clear if the actual papers have been inked, sources ...

A Couple of Google Geeks Sitting Around Talking About Search: Video Interviews With Gundotra and Singhal!

Dec 8, 2009
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Here’s the video of interviews BoomTown did with the two Google execs most responsible for the rollout of its real-time search and other new mobile search features announced yesterday. That would...

Exclusive: MSN Inks New Deal With Wonderwall Creator BermanBraun for Online Lifestyle Site

Dec 8, 2009
MSN will announce a new deal with BermanBraun–the Hollywood production company run by former Yahoo media chief and well-known television exec Lloyd Braun (pictured here) and his business partner Gail Berman–to create, design and run an online lifestyle...

Video: Google Real-Time Search Event (Plus Noshing!)

Dec 8, 2009
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Here is a short video BoomTown did at the Google search event yesterday, where the company launched a number of new features to its flagship offering–most of all, comprehensive real-time...

Liveblogging the Google Search Event: Gutenberg, Goggles and Scrolling Real-Time Search!

Dec 7, 2009
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Right now, BoomTown is sitting right behind the very affable Jason Hirschhorn, chief product officer of MySpace, who is here to make one of the many partner announcements with Google at its “search...

Liveblogging the Google Confab at 10 am PT: Searchtastic?

Dec 7, 2009
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. BoomTown will be motoring the MINI–top up, it’s pouring rain here!–down to Silicon Valley this morning to liveblog a “search event” that Google is holding at the Computer History Museum. Last week,...


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