At a time when people should be decorating their offices in a festive manner, it seems that a large number of Yahoo employees will instead have to carry away their belongings in cardboard boxes.  Multiple sources indicate that Yahoo intends to conduct another round of layoffs in December. Indeed, it's almost certain at this point that layoffs will occur.  The big question is how many people will be affected.  Michael Arrington, … [Read more...]

Target has introduced new online daily deals for the holiday shopping season. Target.com's Daily Deals will offer one-day sales of up to 50 percent off regular prices. New deals this holiday season include: *“Mega Merry Mondays,” beginning each week with deals on 17 popular items. *“Total Toy Tuesdays,” offering discounts on five popular toys. Shoppers can be notified of the daily deals by signing up for email, text … [Read more...]

How much time do you spend trying to keep with all your friends on the various social platforms? Chances are it's quite a bit. Most of your friends are probably on Facebook, some are hard die heard Twitterers, and some won't let go of MySpace. Enter the Friends app from Taptivate for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The official blog states, "Friends gathers everyone you care about from all the major social networks into one place". Brian … [Read more...]

In another article we looked at large scale SEO with Bill Hunt. We also sat down with Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting at PubCon, who talked about enterprise PPC.  "There's some things that change when you get to a very large account, whether it's greater than 50k a month spend or greater than 100k a month spend, you know, whatever it may be," he tells us. "The campaigns tend to get very complex. You are going to have a … [Read more...]

Last night, Twitter founders Evan Williams (@EV) and Biz Stone (@Biz) were guests on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and pair discussed the origins of the Twitter name, and a few that didn't quite make the cut. According to Biz Stone, the names that were initially kicked around were, "Jitter" and "Twitch", but those seem to much like a "drug addict". They wanted a name that depicted speed/urgency, so they happened to … [Read more...]

As you may know, the Yahoo and Microsoft advertising transition is complete. Yahoo and Microsoft paid search advertisers must use adCenter to manage their campaigns. But how smooth has the transition been for advertisers?  WebProNews took a few moments to talk about the transition with PPC expert Christine Churchill of Key Relevance at PubCon in Las Vegas. "One of the things that we've done to help clients move and transition over to … [Read more...]