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Yahoo ! annonce des bénéfices en forte hausse - 22 juillet 2010
Le géant de l’Internet Yahoo ! a publié mardi 20 juillet des bénéfices en hausse de 51 % au deuxième trimestre, par rapport à la même période de l’année précédente, à 213,32 millions de dollars, une performance meilleure que prévu.
En 2009, après un début d’année chaotique, Yahoo ! avait déjà largement redressé la barre aux (...)
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Les bénéfices d’Apple s’envolent de 78 % - 22 juillet 2010
Les bénéfices enregistrés par la firme à la pomme au cours des trois derniers mois ont bondi de 78 %, à 3,253 milliards de dollars, selon une annonce officielle intervenue mardi 20 juillet peu après la clôture de Wall Street. Ces résultats étaient particulièrement attendus car ce sont les premiers publiés depuis qu’Apple a, (...)
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Résultats en forte hausse pour Baidu, le Google chinois - 22 juillet 2010
Le moteur de recherches chinois Baidu a publié mercredi un bénéfice net encore une fois plus que doublé sur un an à 837,4 millions de yuans (95 millions d’euros), appuyé sur une hausse de 74,4 % du chiffre d’affaires à 1,914 milliard de yuans (220 millions d’euros).
"Les résultats record de Baidu en termes de chiffre (...)
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Google Ventures Funds a Search Marketing Start-Up - 21 juillet 2010
Google makes the vast majority of its money selling search ads. On Wednesday, Google’s venture capital arm will announce that it has invested in Trada, a start-up that makes it easier for small businesses to buy those ads by crowdsourcing the work.
For businesses that do not have a marketing department or a search (...)
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Apple’s Profit Rises 78% on Appeal of New Devices - 21 juillet 2010
SAN FRANCISCO "” The iPhone 4 antenna may be causing static for some Apple investors, but the company is showing no signs of slowing down.
Apple said on Tuesday that its net income rose 78 percent last quarter, driven by strong sales of the iPhone, the iPad and the Macintosh line of computers.
The results show (...)
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Google buys Metaweb to ’improve’ search - 20 juillet 2010
Google has acquired Metaweb, an internet information database company, in a bid to "improve its search" offering.
The search giant announced its acquisition late on Friday evening (July 16) via its company blog. Jack Menzel, director of product management at Google, wrote : "We’ve acquired Metaweb, a company that (...)
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Facebook se cherche des amis en Asie - 20 juillet 2010
SHANGHAI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Alors qu’il s’apprête à se lancer sur les marchés asiatiques, le réseau social Facebook risque de se heurter aux volontés de préserver la vie privée en Corée du Sud et au Japon, ainsi qu’à la sévérité de la censure en Chine.
Le fondateur et P-DG du site, Mark Zuckerberg, prévoit pour Facebook une (...)
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Nokia Siemens Buys Motorola Unit for $1.2 Billion - 19 juillet 2010
Nokia Siemens Networks said Monday that it would buy Motorola’s telecommunications network equipment business for $1.2 billion, a move that gives it a stronghold in the North American market and the No. 2 position in the cutthroat mobile gear market.
Nokia Siemens Networks "” a 50-50 joint venture of Nokia and (...)
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Barbie ’signs up’ to Foursquare - 19 juillet 2010
Barbie, the Mattel-manufactured doll, "˜has joined’ Foursquare, the location-based social network, in a bid to promote her new in-built video camera.
The latest model of the doll, Barbie Video girl, doubles up as a video camera and comes with video editing software. Mattel are using the service to promote the new (...)
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Foursquare ’in talks with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo !’ about search partnerships - 19 juillet 2010
Exclusive : Foursquare is in talks with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo ! about a search partnership which could let people look up the most popular bar or restaurant in their area in real-time.
Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph, Dennis Crowley, Foursquare’s co-founder, said that his company was in talks with (...)
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Google profit misses as expenses surge - 17 juillet 2010
Google missed Wall Street’s quarterly profit estimates for the first time in two years after a spike in expenses offset a 24 per cent revenue jump, but it vowed to keep investing in new businesses to drive long-term growth.
Shares of the Internet search engine leader fell almost 4 per cent on worries about rising (...)
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Rivalries and economy cloud Google expectations - 17 juillet 2010
Investors have muted expectations for Google’s second-quarter results, as economic clouds and shifts in the company’s strategy dampened hopes that it will beat Wall Street estimates.
At least three analysts have cut financial estimates for Google in the run up to its second-quarter earnings report due late (...)
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Foursquare passes the two million user mark - 15 juillet 2010
Foursquare, the location-based social network, has crossed the two million user mark over the weekend.
The record was achieved only three months after the rapidly growing site achieved one million users. In contrast, it took 12 months for Foursquare to attract one million users.
Last month the site secured (...)
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Google searches for a way into social networking - 15 juillet 2010
Two weeks ago Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, was in the UK visiting media companies and speaking to politicians. At one such meeting, over lunch, he was asked outright if Google was planning to launch its own social network to rival Facebook, niftily called "Google Me".
Schmidt, well-known for being a (...)
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Google Secretly Invested $100+ Million In Zynga, Preparing To Launch Google Games - 15 juillet 2010
Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone, including $150 million from Softbank (...)
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Google : la guerre du jeu aura bien lieu - 15 juillet 2010
Recherche « chef de produit dans le domaine des jeux vidéo ». La petite annonce de Google aurait pu passer inaperçue. C’était sans compter sur le site Tech Crunch qui a profité de l’occasion pour prédire l’apparition d’un service dédié aux jeux en ligne : Google Games, d’ici à la fin de l’année. L’affirmation ne doit rien au (...)
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Pub : Apple veut en croquer - 9 juillet 2010
Le roi du payant peut-il devenir un poids lourd de l’économie de la gratuité sur les réseaux ? Ou, pour le dire autrement, après s’être imposé comme le numéro 1 de la musique en ligne et de la vidéo à la demande, Apple sera-t-il demain, à l’instar d’un Google, un des géants de la publicité en ligne ? C’est peu dire que la (...)
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Apple iAd "˜secrets’ revealed - 7 juillet 2010
Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform targets adverts based on user behaviour, say experts
Apple is analysing the purchasing habits of its 150 million iTunes users in order to help serve up targeted adverts through its iAd platform, say those with a knowledge of the new mobile advertising scheme.
"Apple (...)
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Apple Studies User Downloads to Fine-Tune Mobile Ads - 7 juillet 2010
July 6 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., with a storehouse of billions of music, movie and software downloads, is studying the buying habits of many of its 150 million iTunes users to show more appealing mobile ads and fuel competition with Google Inc.
Through the iAd program that began last week, Apple started placing (...)
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Google Looks to Emerging Markets for Android’s Growth - 5 juillet 2010
PORTLAND, OREGON "” Google plans to push its Android mobile software in India and China and is exploring ways for developers to make more money from applications, stepping up competition with Apple and Nokia.
To attract programmers to its Android operating system, Google may offer tools that help them sell (...)
