Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing , Microsoft's new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.
HONG KONG — The Associated Press is considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain period, perhaps half an hour, the head of the news organization said Tuesday. The AP licenses its stories and photographs to many of the Internet's main hubs, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN, and its work also is used by hundreds of Web sites owned by newspapers and broadcasters.
Amazon and the Authors Guild reach an agreement on the read-aloud feature. I think it's a smart play by Amazon. Authors that choose to disable may hesitate due to a possible public relations backlash for not wanting disabled readers to get access without getting more money in the process.
What happens when you extend your brand/clout too far? Scholastic is taking heat for promoting non-book merchandise to kids, with video games causing the biggest uproar.
I can't believe these books haven't been available for years! Also interesting to me because I used to live on the same street and just two blocks down from Beacon Press.
Really, this is breaking news to the industry? Kudos to the kid for telling it like it is, but are these companies really just hearing about this now? People don't like advertisements on a website constitutes breaking news? And people would prefer free stuff to stuff they have to pay for? Wait, why am I surprised that the heads of major media outlets are completely clueless as to what people actually want?
