eBay entered China through a $180 million purchase of Shanghai-based EachNet. Expedia owner InterActiveCorp paid $168 million for 52 percent of Chinese online travel agent eLong. Online retailer Amazon.com purchased Joyo.com for $75 million, and online job search leader Monster.com bought a 40 percent stake in ChinaHR.com for $50 million. Now, according to CNET, Yahoo is prepared to pay 1 billion dollars for a 35 …
Google Not Talking To CNET
New York Times: Google says its mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." But it does not appear to take kindly to those who use its search engine to organize and publish information about its own executives. CNETNews.com, a technology news Web site, said last week that Google had told it that the company would not answer any questions from CNET's reporters until …
Take A Rest, Pal
Robert Novak walked off the set during a live segment on CNN yesterday. He also cursed his nemesis on the left, James Carville. According to the New York Times: About two hours later, a spokeswoman for CNN, Laurie Goldberg, released a statement saying that the network had "asked Mr. Novak to take some time off." Asked later in a telephone interview whether Mr. Novak was being suspended from his work at the Cable …
Target’s Manhattan Air Show
PR Newswire: Target turned the runway upside down during an electrifying Vertical Fall Fashion Show in the city that shares its love of style: New York. This event took place at Rockefeller Center, Wednesday, July 27, 2005 which featured a troupe of world-class athletes who leapt off the roof of a 9-story tower on the Plaza, then strutted down the building's side modeling the Target Fall 2005 women's and men's …
High Praise For Randomness
Rohit Bhargava, of Ogilvy PR has some great things to say about the power of randomness. What makes random such a powerful marketing tool? …
Phishing Wreaks Havoc With Banking Industy’s Online Strategies
Boston Globe: It was any banker's worst nightmare. Shortly after Wachovia Corp. sent an e-mail inviting recipients to go to a new log-in page as a result of its merger with First Union Corp., some savvy customers swamped Wachovia's call center to inform officials that criminals apparently were attempting to steal the financial information of Wachovia's customers through a bogus hyperlink. One problem: The e-mail was …
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Pigs Endure Logo Treatment
Yahoo: Pigs tattooed with the logo of French luxury brand Louis Vuitton rest in a farm in the rural area of China's capital Beijing July 14, 2005. The pigs are owned by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, who has a staff of local farmers and tattoo artists raising sows to use them as canvases for skin art. According to Time, Delvoye's controversial art seems perfectly aligned with Europe's current indigestion over what it …
Stay Funny
Stay Free! is a bi-annual magazine with a blog component. Unlike Adbusters, the culture jamming subversives at Stay Free! are funny. And funny is good. I like funny. Don't you? …