–Google U.S. display-ad sales expected to top Facebook’s next year
–Facebook overtook Yahoo in U.S. display-ad sales last year
–Google seen reaching about $4.8B in U.S. display-ad sales in 2014
(Updates with Google and Yahoo declining to comment.)
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)–Google Inc.’s (GOOG) display-advertising business is growing faster than anticipated and is on track to surpass that of Facebook next year, according to research published Wednesday.
According to data …
Originally published: February 22, 2012 9:31 AM
Updated: February 22, 2012 3:45 PM
By
GENE JOHNSON (Associated Press)
Quick ReadFederal judge: Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell emergency contraceptives
(AP) — Washington state may not force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the state’s true goal is to suppress religious objections by druggists — not to promote timely access to the medicines for people who need them.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton heard closing arguments earlier this month in a lawsuit that claimed state…
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By
Sean Poulter
Last updated at 1:05 PM on 22nd February 2012
For many cash-strapped families, buying full-price clothes has become a costly luxury.
So they will no doubt welcome news that Marks Spencer has launched an online version of its outlet stores – outlet.marksandspencer.com – allowing customers to buy clothing reduced by as much as 40 per cent all year round.
MS already has 50 such outlet stores across the country, which sell heavily discounted clothes from past seasons, but it has not previously offered these reductions online.
Discount: Marks Spencer has launched an online version of its outlet stores ¿ allowing customers to buy clothing reduced by as much as 40 per cent all year round
The website, which opened yesterday, will offer a selection of more than 1,300 womenswear, menswear and childrenswear products.
They include a Per Una giraffe print dress for £29.50, down 40 per cent from £49.50, and a pair of Autograph peep toe shoes reduced to £33 from £55.
MS will hope to attract shoppers who might normally buy clothes from cheaper high street rivals or the supermarkets, which now control a large and growing share of clothing and fashion sales.
But the retailer may risk reducing its own sales if customers switch from its mainstream website to the cheaper outlet option, taking advantage of timeless items such as a men’s wool suit reduced from £199 to £119.
The company has made it clear it is keen to expand its online sales, which are the one area of growth across the retail sector.
Marks Spencer opened its first three MS Outlet stores at Ashford, Cheshire Oaks and Livingston in November 2000.
New video attempts to accuse Google of Googlighting. Should you be unfamiliar with this term, it allegedly means an ad agency selling productivity software in its spare time.
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Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
There is little lovelier than large corporations accusing each other of sleaziness.
One of the current spats for spiritual superiority involves Microsoft targeting Google for being a low-down, sniveling operator that works around privacy settings just for the sheer evil of it.
Redmond seems to be warming to its knife-skills. For it has just released a long ad, accusing Google of Googlighting.
Yes, this advertising company dares to sell enterprise software to unsuspecting businesses who then are caught in Google’s endless need to change that software and leave businesses in a dizzy tizzy.
This rather poorly made specimen of a film is a stylistic follow-up to Microsoft’s “GMail Man” video, one in which Google was presented as someone whom no one at the country club would dare to like.
In this Googlighting film, we can delight in a lady business owner saying to the Google Apps salesman: “You want us to be your lab rats?”
This is, of course, a question that is both naive and redundant. We are all Google’s lab rats and we mostly delight in the experience, being too ignorant to imagine we might have a choice.
Why it should suddenly be a novelty might be beyond sentient beings.
However, Google is surely miscast as this rather greasy, slick man in a white suit and multicolored tie. The problem is that he’s so venal, so crude and so ill-dressed. This is deeply inauthentic, as we know that senior Google employees are dapper and sometimes wear cashmere sweaters.
Still, as Microsoft grapples toward higher moral ground, I am sure that some will enjoy this rather crude (even if somewhat believable) retelling of Google’s underbelly.
Microsoft, on its own blog, declares that “Google Apps accounts for merely 0.5% of the ad company’s revenue.”
Some might wonder why, in that case, Microsoft needs to bash it.
However, Redmond concedes: “The folks at Google are smart. Without any experience in developing business tools, they rebranded their consumer e-mail and embedded it with a few web applications, and ‘Voila!’ there was a ‘business’ offering.”
A further stab is taken into the Google’s solar plex(us) with these words: “We store your data only for your use, while Google reserves the right to use your data.”
Which tech company can you trust these days? Could the answer be none?
Originally published: February 21, 2012 7:34 AM
Updated: February 21, 2012 11:52 AM
By
KAREN MATTHEWS (Associated Press)
Quick ReadNYC art sale to feature Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’; auctioneer says price could exceed $80M
Photo credit: AP | This photo provided by Sotheby’s shows “The Scream” by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. The work, which dates from 1895 and is one of four versions of the composition, will lead Sotheby’s Impressionist Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Sotheby’s)
(AP) — One of four versions of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream” will be sold this spring in New York, Sotheby’s auction house announced Tuesday.
Sotheby’s estimates that the work, which has become a modern icon of human anxiety, will sell for $80 million or more.
The 1895 drawing of a man holding his head and screaming under a streaked, blood-red sky is being sold by Norwegian…
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Cash Bullets review has been released to the public. Who is the creator behind this product and does this it deliver as promised?
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