Nicholas Carlson

EBay plans to turn off its main auctions Web site in China after years of heavy investments. The company will partner with Beijing-based TOM Online to replace the site in 2007, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter. One analyst called the news a “cautionary tale” for American Internet companies planning […]

E-commerce makes holiday shopping easier –- that is if you get around to it. ComScore estimates of consumer online non-travel (retail) spending at U.S. sites for this 2006 holiday season show that e-commerce makes it easier for Americans to uphold one of the season’s most venerable traditions: procrastination. Online spending has broken records all season […]

Google bought European Internet mapping company Endoxon today, characterizing the move as part of its effort to improve Google Maps and Google Earth in European markets. Prior to the acquisition, the Lucerne, Switzerland-based Endoxon provided Internet mapping solutions, mobile services, data processing, cartography and direct marketing products. The acquisition covers only Endoxon’s Internet, mapping and […]

Google is partnering with GoDaddy.com and eNom to add domain registration services to its Google Apps for Your Domain product. GoDaddy President and COO Warren Adelman told internetnews.com he had to take the fifth on whether Google will make a cameo appearance in any Super Bowl commercials this year. In the meantime, Google said in […]

Google today rolled out a new search to add to the pile. In a blog post, the company said Google Patent Search is a natural extension of its mission to make public domain government information more easily accessible. And you can use it to find patents for historic inventions such as adhesive tape or contact […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Hey, somebody grab a calendar and help me out. Has it really been 15 months since eBay boughtSkype for $2.6 billion? Has it really been six months since eBay began a pilot program to allow vendors in two-dozen or so categories to add “Skype Me” buttons to their listings? And is it really […]

Yahoo’s new search marketing system is finally open for new business. Code-named Panama, the long-awaited and often delayed system is built to monetize Yahoo search with sponsored links. It is meant to compete with Google’s AdWords for search engine advertising dollars. And while the news might mean an end to company re-organizations, leaked memos and […]

It didn’t take too long for Google to put YouTube to work. A white-label version of the recently acquired video-sharing platform figured prominently in British Sky Broadcasting plans to provide a Sky-branded version of Google’s search, advertising, communications and video products to its broadband customers. In what the companies called a “wide-ranging set of multi-year […]

Google began a beta test of Google Audio Ads yesterday, inviting a small group of AdWords advertisers to place 30-second radio ads on hundreds of radio stations across the U.S. According to a post on Google’s Inside AdWords blog, advertisers will be able to target their ads by location, station type, day of the week […]

On Tuesday, the news hit the wire: Yahoo had finally shaken up its corporate structure. COO Dan Rosensweig was out, CFO Susan Decker moved over, and the search began for a leader who can help Yahoo develop products and keep, engage, and grow its audience. Almost immediately, industry watchers began calling the shake-up a result […]

Yahoo , facing intense scrutiny after a senior executive wrote a detailed memo criticizing the company’s operations, is reorganizing the company. Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig will be leaving Yahoo at the end of March. John Marcom, senior vice president of international operations, and Lloyd Braun, head of Yahoo’s media and entertainment group, are also leaving […]

Of all the searches Nielsen//NetRatings has tracked recently, 49.6 percent were performed on Google, 23.9 percent were on Yahoo, 8.8 percent were on Microsoft, 6.2 percent were on AOL and 2.8 percent were on Ask.com. Each but Ask.com offers searchers a local option. Until today, that is. Because today, IAC/InterActiveCorp launched a new local search […]