Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Yahoo! sets its sites on the Nikkei
Yahoo! Japan is applying to move its shares onto the main market for Japanese stocks and off the tech startups list. [BBC]
Bold Yahoo! Swallows Overture
Yahoo!'s move has cemented the dominance of three companies at the head of the search engine world.
Yahoo! Movie Mogul
How a Hollywood star-maker turned Yahoo!'s fortunes around. [New Mercury]
Overture War of the Patents?
With Yahoo!'s acquisition of Overture last week, the search engine will acquire 60-plus patents related to technology and processes for indexing the Web, which will enable it to dominate the search marketplace [CNET]
In Search of Relevance
Yahoo!'s latest acquisition of Overture shows where online marketing is going. [The Economist]
Yahoo! Launches Website Publisher
Yahoo! has launched a new publishing tool for subscribers to its web hosting service, part of its ongoing attempt to win over small businesses looking for an online presence. [CNET]
Net Sleuths Hunt File Sharers
Information supplied by BayTSP is part of the arsenal that major record companies are using in their escalating war on Internet file sharing, which the recording industry blames for a three-year downturn in CD sales. [SF Chronicle]
Top Brass at Yahoo Cash in.
Yahoo co-founder David Filo sells stock for the first time since the search engine was launched back in 1994. [News.com]
Overture revenues up
Overture Services reported its second-quarter financial results on Wednesday
AOL Profit Jumps
Profits for AOL Time Warner almost tripled to $1.1 billion for the second quarter of 2003, despite a bigger than expected loss of subscribers in its AOL division. [AtNewYork.com]
