Embedded in Disney’s (DIS) latest filing with the SEC is a claim that might go down as a first in the annals of big media: Disney says it now has a meaningful digital business.
How meaningful? Disney won’t say. But it says it was enough to help its broadcast TV group (the ABC network, plus [...]

During a recent visit to the Mountain View Googleplex, I had the chance to interview Matt Cutts for our German Webmaster Blog. While enjoying the California sunshine we chatted about how to rank in Google, resources for webmasters and Matt’s first encounter with spam. As these topics are not only interesting for a German audience, [...]

We don’t know why Sony BMG’s Columbia label has been running Google AdSense on the front of its homepage: Surely they weren’t trying to recoup some of the $40-plus million they lost last quarter, right?
But in any case, that’s over now. Columbia yanked the ads after this, prank by Bruce Houghton, whose Hypebot blog [...]

Here is my personal list of things to do at your networking group:
(1) Bring your business cards. Sound simple? Well, I regularly meet people at networking groups who have forgotten their cards or their cards are at the printers. Keep an ample supply in your car, briefcase, and pockets; you never know when you’re going [...]

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It turns out you can do more with online video than simple playback. YouTube (GOOG) has seen a rise in popularity in serials and “choose your own adventure” clips, and added its own video annotation service to encourage more interactivity last month. Today YouTube announced its acquisition of Omnisio, adding even more tools for [...]

myYearbook, a social network for teenagers that launched in 2005, has raised $13 million in a Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, and First Round Capital. The new round brings the company’s total funding to $18.6 million.
myYearbook says it sees 10 million unique visitors monthly, and also makes [...]

Viacom (VIA) CEO Philippe Dauman learned his lesson in Q2: he’s better off not making predictions in this ad market.

On May 29, with one month left in Q2, Dauman warned that Viacom wouldn’t be delivering the 7% year-over-year Q1 advertising growth again in the second quarter. Rather, he said, ad sales growth would be in [...]

Reports out of the Googleplex are purporting that Google’s search database has hit a significant mark…it’s finally tipped over the 1 trillion URL (web pages/files) mark.
Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, two Google software engineers from the web search infrastructure team, made the unexpected discovery. In an awe filled statement on the Google blog, the [...]

It seems that the chase for the elusive Yahoo! was just too tiring for Microsoft so they have given up and set their sights on a new prey- Facebook!

According to the New York Times, Microsoft is set for a new deal with Facebook in which Microsoft will provide search and paid listings to the [...]

It was December last year when we first heard about Google Knol, touted as the “Wiki Killer”. Well, Google has finally put the finishing touches to Knol and opened it to the public.

Don’t expect Knol to be the “Wiki Killer” though as it is actually quite different to Wikipedia, most notably though with what [...]

MySpace is getting a new classified section, which should be a nice upgrade to their existing offering. The new section is powered by Oodle, which runs classifieds for sites like Wal-Mart, Cox Broadcasting, Military.com, among others.
The biggest upgrade: More listings, which should make the classified section much more useful. Oodle CEO Craig Donato says [...]

Last Friday, Matt Cutts (Google’s head of webspam) announced that Google was updating its PageRank (toolbar) over the weekend, and more importantly, some of the older penalties were being dropped.
As with all PageRank updates, site owners are reporting movements up and down as the full update takes effect. Some of the key PageRank measuring [...]

One advantage Wikipedia has over Google’s Wikipedia-inspired Knol: Its entries still show up much higher in Google’s (GOOG) own search results.
This makes sense, of course — the longer-standing Wikipedia entries should have more inbound links, and ultimately a better Google rank. And Google has no incentive to juice the results to give its own [...]

Microsoft casually announced a new search and search ad deal at the end of Steve Ballmer’s analyst presentation today. Microsoft gave next to no details about the pact, but the Wall Street Journal has gone ahead and declared that the deal “could pose a threat to Google“.
How so? Last we looked, Google was crushing the [...]