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...Which famous name was the most-searched-for term on Yahoo! in 2006? A Britney Spears...
...deals with Yahoo and Monster.com will boost papers' digital classifieds...
Newspaper ads still generate $48 billion a year, three times the amount spent for online ads, which is why ad-driven Net companies like Google, Yahoo and Monster.com have spent the past few months setting up partnerships with print publishers. Yahoo signed 176 papers for a deal to post classifieds online, and Google is helping an additional 50 use the Web to sell their ad space more efficiently. That's a crucial development because the recent stagnation in print-ad revenue has been aggravated by the industry's archaic sales system, which has made it difficult for small businesses...
...private, venture-backed start-up companies in the U.S. are founded by Indian immigrants, according to a study released this month by the National Venture Capital Association. Many of Silicon Valley's high-tech leaders are of Indian origin, among them Prabhakar Raghavan, 45, head of Yahoo!'s research division. After finishing college in India, Raghavan migrated to the U.S. and earned a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining IBM. "Indians are looked upon not only as technical wizards but, beyond that, as people who can make things happen," he says...
...launching a platform at any given time, the Zune enters a field already littered with MP3 players. Nearly every MP3 player that's not an iPod can connect to a monthly subscription service: any new flash player from Samsung, iriver, SanDisk or Creative will synch with Napster, RealNetworks' Rhapsody, Yahoo's Y! Unlimited or MTV Urge. In fact, even Samsung's newest Cingular phone, appropriately dubbed the Sync, can do this...