Amazon Sinks A9: "In a surprising retreat, Amazon.com is dismantling many of the features that helped make its A9.com search engine stand out from the crowd. Things like the A9 toolbar, intricate street-level mapping, and the Instant Reward program that gave active A9 users a 1.57% discount on Amazon.com purchases are all history."
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Amazon Sinks A9
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Experian acquires PriceGrabber.com
Experian Acquires PriceGrabber.com
Experian has acquired comparison-shopping site PriceGrabber.com for approximately ...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005
Fraud and skullduggery at Norbourg Asset Management
IFIC chairman steps down while his company, Norbourg, investigated by RCMP: "MONTREAL (CP) - The chairman of the Investment Funds Institute of Canada stepped down Thursday after RCMP and other police officers swooped down on several offices in Montreal and Toronto as part of a major fraud investigation against his company, Norbourg Asset Management Inc."
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Thursday, July 28, 2005
IndustryBrains bought by Seattle-based Marchex
The Kelsey Group: "Seattle-based Marchex, which is the parent of TrafficLeader, the SEM/SEO firm behind several YP (and newspaper) simplified search marketing programs, has announced the roughly $30 million acquisition of IndustryBrains, which operates a vertical/contextual ad network."
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Monday, July 18, 2005
MySpace goes to Murdoch's News Corporation
News Corp to buy Intermix for $580 million on Yahoo! News: "News Corp. on Monday said it would buy Intermix Media Inc., owner of the popular MySpace.com social networking site, for $580 million in a move to expand the media conglomerate's Internet offerings."
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Saturday, July 16, 2005
Orchard Park Mall suffers sans Wal-Mart
It appears, according to a published news report in Friday's Capital News by contributor Jason Luciw, that despite the continued spin from Orchard Park Mall administration, Kelowna's venerable mall is suffering. Two anonymous store owner-managers, who declined to be identified as they're trying desperately to renegotiate high lease rates because of the downturn in traffic in the six-month period without Wal-Mart as an anchor tenant, said their sales are down 20%.
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Friday, May 20, 2005
Ask Jeeves buys Excite Europe
Tiscali: Sale of Excite to Ask Jeeves: "Tiscali announces the sale of Excite Italia BV to Ask Jeeves Inc. for a total cash consideration of EUR 6.1 millions. The divesture of Excite Italia BV, which owns the Excite brand in key European countries, ratifies Tiscali’s focus of its portal activities under the Tiscali brand and represents another step of the announced strategy of disposing of non-core assets."
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