Archive for June, 2009
Ifbyphone today made another major announcement as they launched their new service, the Call Distributor. The service would enable small and medium sized business an easy way to build their own call centers. This would include all the technical facilities found in call centers but removing the need to spend on finding equipment or software. The virtual center would enable access from any where and from any phone. The Call Distributor includes the following capabilities:
Here comes a new CFO at Facebook, as the social network names David Ebersman to take the position. David had been a former CFO at Genentech and will take place of Gideon Yu, who was relieved off his duties almost three months back. With more than decade and a half of experience, David comes equipped with all the skills to boost Facebook’s ever expanding empire.
Google is making moves to make itself the leading source of everything, from information, videos to news. Presently the search giant is inviting publishers to upload their video content at YouTube. YouTube news manager, Olivia Ma says anyone who has their site indexed at Google can register as a news partner. These videos will be featured at YouTube’s news channel, like wise the advantage with doing so will be that publishers will be able to share revenue generated via the videos, unlike how things happen at Google News. Whatever the case be and no matter how big a reach that YouTube has, it will take quite some time before publishers actually start migrating from the platforms they usually use like Brightcove, etc. Especially given the fact that they are allowed to sell their own ads at the same time expanding their reach to various other networks. However the attempt by Google is definitely worth a mention as it continues to focus more on professional content.
LNK.LY is a new URL shortener. That’s it, I don’t want to extend this description anymore save that like quite a many out there it also keeps track on the URL you have shortened and shared. Drag its bookmark button to your browser so that you can simply hit the button and generate the short URL of any page you are on or take a longer and more tiring route of copy/pasting the URL on the Homepage and then shortening it. You can even keep a track on the number of hits the shortened URL has received as well.
Microsoft has finally decided to sell off its interactive ad portal, Razorfish. Reports state that its current worth is in the range of $600 Million to $700 Million. WPP Groupe had shown interest in acquiring it for as much as $800 Million but eventually took a bow when recession hit the economic market, however it is possible that the same group may acquire it but probably at a lower price than it had offered. Let’s see what price is fetched for the ad firm and who actually throws the bid for its acquisition.
