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Finance Website Visits Increase 19% in February

Well, at this time of year there is always increase in traffic for any finance related websites. I see this on my own website:

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One of the major reason for this tax filing season between Jan to Apr.

US Searches Rise 7% in October, Google Dominates

This is bad for publisher that Google is having monopoly in this area. Microsoft should acquire yahoo and give tough competition to google. This should in turn benefit the consumer at the end.

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Apple Could Crush Competitors With a $99 iPhone

Well that is very well possible with help of ATT!! Rather ATT can sell Iphone FREE with 2 yrs of contract eventually like it does for other phones! By reducing margins on both Apple and ATT side this is possible.

Let there be more competition and free iphone (with contract) is possible! :-)

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Apple-Microsoft Ad Wars Heat Up Again

Apple should not worry about Vista ads. Those vista ads helps mac indirectly anyway. Vista's failure was one of the reason for people to turn to mac!



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The Next Tech Boom: Infrastructure 2.0

Hey Greg,

Great article!! This is all due! But I think current economic situation will prohibit from happening now. I am guessing that it will take 2 to 4 years to happen/start this next boom.

Next boom keywords: Virtualization, Clouds, Data Center, Online Apps.

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Welcome to the Google Economy

Nice article. But may be it is more better if we say as 'Internet Economy" instead of google economy.

Definitely web 2.0 has made significant impact to form platforms you have listed. If one thinks carefully, the DOT COM burst we had in 2000 to 2003, the over hype of internet technology, actually has become a reality in last 2 years!!

Online Consumers to Spend Less Money, Use More Coupons, This Holiday Season

There is no question that economic downturn is going to affect everybody from corporate to retail stores to consumers. Consumer is going to spend less and less. They will buy only necessary items ! So I am sure it is going to affect all online advertisers from Google to CJ.com to Fatwallet sites to retailmont to small deal sites like www.slickdeals4u.com.

Now being said that on other side people going to try to save money as much as possible by finding bargain deals. There will be more people researching on web, finding bargain, coupons, slick deals etc. So online business will benefit compared to physical stores.. This fact of finding bargain weighs equivalent or more than fact of economic downturn!

So this is great opportunity to all those bargain deal sites, coupon sites to provide smart & intelligent service to consumer!! And social networking built into these sweetens the spot.

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60% of Google Employee Stock Options Are Drowning

Another point is that in this downturn, people going to try to save more and spend less! Consumer will be doing more research to find better and cheaper deals which they must buy! Guess what which tool is best to do this? Internet! And that is where Google has their strong foot!

In such situations companies like Walmart, Coke do survive and I think Google will become one of them and will survive this massive downturn. Another reason to people join Google or not leave Google!! Need stable job guys and gals!

Of course there is no doubt that Google's advertising revenue will go down but NOT to zero! They will be still profitable!

60% of Google Employee Stock Options Are Drowning

Well, Google is still lucrative than any other company in terms of job!! It is not just google going down. In fact all other companies gone down and most of them in more worst situation than google!

I will say now more people will go join google and their retention will be more easy as everybody maintains or looks for stable job!!

Companies like Google has cash and cash is king now!

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