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There’s good news and bad news in the latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report, newly released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The good news is that Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. are still growing, topping $23 billion in 2008. The bad news: That growth appears to be flattening.
The employment picture for high-tech workers is changing dramatically. Last year, the U.S. high-tech sector added 77,000 jobs, mainly in the software services and engineering sectors, according to “Cyberstates 2009,” a report published by TechAmerica. However, high-tech manufacturing and communications services continued to lose jobs in 2008, carrying along the trend of the previous five years.
Search engine powerhouse Google has launched a new venture capital fund, Google Ventures. The new fund will invest in early-stage companies across a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean tech, biotech and healthcare. “This is Google’s effort to take advantage of our resources to support innovation,” wrote managing partners Rich Miner and Bill Maris.
Jonathan Miller, a former chief executive of AOL and once considered a potential CEO at Yahoo, will soon be appointed head of digital strategy for News Corp., according to a person familiar with the matter. Miller, 52, was eyed last year as a replacement for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, before Time Warner’s AOL invoked a noncompete clause that blocked the move.
Online DVD rental leader Netflix is raising its prices for Blu-ray discs in a change that will triple or quadruple the high-definition surcharge on Netflix’s most popular subscription plans. The new rates announced Monday are being driven by the growing appetite for the Blu-ray format among Netflix’s more than 10 million subscribers.
The Walt Disney Co. said Monday it has agreed to provide short-form videos from its ABC and ESPN television properties to run on Google’s YouTube under an ad-revenue sharing arrangement. Disney has yet to announce a deal with YouTube to share full episodes of such programs as “Lost” or “Desperate Housewives,” despite the shows being available in full on ABC.com and sites such as Comcast’s Fancast or Time Warner’s AOL.
Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, on Monday said it settled a patent dispute over car navigation technology with TomTom for an undisclosed amount. In February, Microsoft filed lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Washington and with the International Trade Commission against TomTom NV and its U.S. subsidiary, TomTom Inc.
Companies deploy CRM solutions to improve business performance, maximize customer relationships and enhance customer service, but many deployments fail to meet expectations. There are many reasons technology rollouts fail, from lack of planning to lack of funding, but there’s another, less-understood culprit: poorly defined business processes.
Layoffs are an unfortunate but predictable byproduct of an economy in decline. As the global economic crisis stretches into yet another month, companies in nearly all industries continue the painful process of purging employees in an effort to reduce costs. After the automotive and manufacturing sectors, one of the hardest hit areas of the economy has been the IT sector.
Google has launched a new music search service in China in conjunction with Top100.cn, one of mainland China’s top Internet music sites. The new Google Music Search provides users with links to free, legal music downloads. Google, Top100.cn and several major American record labels will share revenue generated from online advertising.
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