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...imaginary businesses in initial public offerings. If an idea seemed as if it might make money someday (remember Pets.com?) that was good enough. Today's upstarts are more fully formed and are often led by wealthy veterans of the first boom. They know Google's not the only shopper. Yahoo! has spent close to $100 million for start-ups Flickr and Jumpcut, among others. Facebook may be next, with Yahoo! said to be mulling a $1 billion offer. With investors on track to inject $500 million into new Net firms this year--twice last year's total, according...
Zillow's buyers and sellers, on the cusp of a major transaction, would be a gold mine for Yahoo! or Google, either of which could capitalize on the lucrative real estate ad space. Founder and CEO Rich Barton, who made a fortune creating Expedia, concedes that Zillow has had lots of conversations with the big Web players but says he's not selling...
...screen is bright and has great resolution, and there?s even a notepad program for free typing. Its feel, clearly derived from the PSP, is natural, though like a game controller it takes some getting used to at first. My biggest complaint is it?s got Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger, but it?s missing the big one: AOL Instant Messenger. My hope is that this will come along with version 2.0 of the software, and that anyone who buys it will be able to upgrade. Skype users may be upset that it doesn?t have a built-in speakerphone...
...your primary competitors at this point? Well, today we compete with Yahoo all the time because they are the other company that has a targeted advertising network. And Microsoft continues to claim to enter the market, but we really haven't seen them yet, they're just getting started. I'm sure eventually Microsoft will be a competitor. So it's really those three companies, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft...
...repel the Redmond threat--not to mention Yahoo!, yapping at its heels--Google has executed a rash of acquisitions and product launches tied to its powerful website. From spreadsheet software to online word processing and a digital payment service, the company seems to offer new stuff every day. Free, for the most part, the offerings are dumped onto Google's "more" or "labs" page, in seemingly random order. Mayer wants to streamline that process, helping return Google to its roots in simplicity. "Users aren't going to remember our 50-plus products. They'll remember three to five. We need...