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Welcome to the Wednesday, January 7 SearchEngineWorld Daily News Tracker featuring news of AOL losing executive Kevin Conroy and parent Time Warner writing down $25 billion, Otalo launches vacation home rental search engine site, video ad service SpotMixer lands $9 million funding and gets in with Google, and more.


Lane R Ellis      
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 3:16 pm on Jan. 7, 2009 (utc 0)

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Time Warner to Report Loss for 2008 After $25 Billion AOL, Cable Writedown

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=ajvu.gXU.AwQ
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-time-warner-warns-of-lower-growth/
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/time-warner-oops-our-2008-guidance-was-off-by-370-million-twx

AOL executive Kevin Conroy departs for Univision

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/06/aol-exec-departs-for-univision/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/aol-exec-kevin-conroy-out-after-product-empire-dismantled/
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/aol-boss-kevin-conroy-bolts-for-univision

Google Trends Falls Victim to Disturbing Stunt

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/google-trends-falls-victim-to-disturbing-stunt/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/%e2%9c%88-%e2%96%8c%e2%96%8c-unpleasant-google-trends-subversion/

Baidu finance chief Jennifer Li puts focus on discipline at China's leading search engine

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123127057608158203.html

China's Baidu, SINA and NetEase.com apologize for lewd online content

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE5040F120090107
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/china-vulgar-websites-apology

Hoping to continue its Flash dominance in the face of Microsoft's Silverlight challenege, Adobe signs deals

http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/01/06/adobe-strikes-back.aspx

Flash memory card maker Eye-Fi to Support Video Uploads to Google's YouTube

http://www.pcworld.com/article/156349/eyefi_to_support_video_uploads_to_youtube.html

Otalo launches vacation home rental search engine site

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/use-otalo-to-search-for-vacation-rentals/

Artiklz Launches Public Beta Of Conversation Search Engine

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/artiklz-launches-public-beta-of-conversation-search-engine/

Wibe7.tv: Visually Oriented Search for YouTube

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wibe7tv_visually_oriented_search_youtube.php

Read Write Web asks: Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in Search Results?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_semantic_data.php

Search Ad Industry Won't Go On Hiatus: MediaPost

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=97850

Video ad service SpotMixer lands $9M, gets in with Google

http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/06/video-ad-service-spotmixer-lands-9m-gets-in-with-google/

Checkout Icon Makes Ads 10% More Clickable to Checkout Users, Google Says

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-01-07-n80.html

Google Disallowing Crawling of Their LIFE image hosting

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-01-06-n79.html

WEB / OTHER

One of India's top outsourcing firms Satyam chief admits giant accounting fraud; chairman resigns

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/worldbusiness/08satyam.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123131072970260401.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32ea8364-dc85-11dd-a2a9-000077b07658.html
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/07/satyam_boss_quits/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aSR2iC3g2LAQ
http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/careers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212701008
http://clusterstock.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/how-to-announce-a-multi-billion-dollar-fraud
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D95I9T9G0.htm
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/01/07/satyam-founder-raju-resigns-admits-financial-fraud/

Data Analysts Captivated by programming lanuage R’s Power

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html

Apple to Lift Copy Limits on iTunes Music, alter pricing to include DRM removal fee

http://mashable.com/2009/01/07/apple-charging-drm-removal/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/the-price-of-going-drm-free-apples-hidden-18-billion-music-tax/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/live-blog-the-apple-keynote-speech-at-macworld/
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/apples-itunes-drops-drm-adds-tiered-pricing-3g-downloads
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123126062001057765.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE5055EY20090107
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7813527.stm
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2009/01/06/apple-labels-both-win-with-drm-free-itunes-tiered-pricing
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bccbeed0-dc1f-11dd-b07e-000077b07658.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/itunes_goes_drm_free.php
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2009/01/macworld_2009_-.html
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=97846
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/06/record_companies_surrender/index.html

2009 “Leap Second” software glitch hits Oracle

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/06/leap-second-hits-oracle/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/07/oracle_leap_second/

Orbitz Names New CEO, Plans More Cost Cuts

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE5063F720090107
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123133284306060657.html
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D95IAI5O0.htm

Online Applications coming for Social Security

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123128119708758775.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-socialsecurity7-2009jan07,0,5943319.story

How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web

http://slate.com/id/2207912

Judge: video transcoding doesn't block Veoh "safe harbor" defense

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090106-judge-transcoding-doesnt-block-veoh-safe-harbor-defense.html
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=97851

Sun acquires cloud company Q-layer

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10134162-92.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11385

Cisco helping large media firms build social networking Web sites

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10133792-93.html

Yelp community review site user faces lawsuit over negative review

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10133466-93.html

Researchers poke holes in Intel's Safer Computing Initiative anti-tampering tech

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/07/intel_vpro_hack/

Peer39 Shuts Down “Semantic Ad Network,” Concentrating on Technology

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090106/one-less-ad-network-peer39-shuts-down-semantic-ad-network-concentrating-on-technology/

Widget distribution start-up Clearspring lays off 20 percent

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/06/clearspring-lays-off-20-president-and-coo-jay-rappaport-leaving/

Conversation tracking service Co.mments shutting down operations later this week

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/comments_bites_the_dust.php

Popular German Blog Basic Thinking to be sold on eBay

http://www.centernetworks.com/german-blog-basic-thinking-ebay-auction

blip.tv Partners With ActiveVideo Networks on TV Distribution

http://www.centernetworks.com/bliptv-active-video-networks

Researchers Aim to Fortify CAPTCHA Against Spammers

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Spammers-War-Against-CAPTCHA-Requires-New-Approaches/

Facebook Changing: Enter Video

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=97767

 


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