Nicholas Carlson

Call it YouTube envy — or perhaps another example of the continued rise of the Web as a video medium to challenge the broadcast ways of yore. Just don’t forget the local angle. Yahoo said today it would syndicate local news from 16 of CBS Corporation’s television stations. CBS and Yahoo plan to share revenue […]

Ask.com wants to extend its growth to the mobile search market. Today, the wholly owned business of IAC/InterActiveCorp introduced Ask Mobile, a new service for searching the Web from mobile devices. Ask announced the new product at DigitalLife, a consumer event in New York City. According to a statement, the product’s key differentiators are features […]

Might Google have another copyright problem? Some say yes; some say no. It started Monday with the YouTube acquisition. Analysts think Google’s best bet to monetize YouTube is through contextually oriented, click-to-play video ads. But those same analysts say big-money brand advertisers won’t buy those video ads till they can be sure the ads won’t […]

Google is scheduled to officially launch Google Docs & Spreadsheets later today at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Docs is a Web-based word-processing and spreadsheet that Google said is designed to make it easier for people to create, manage, and share documents and spreadsheets online. Google Spreadsheets had been in beta testing since […]

With its $1.65 billion YouTube purchase, Google bought a site with user stats that marketers drool over, and a phenomenon at the epicenter of the video on the Web explosion. Market research firm ComScore said the YouTube streamed 649 million videos in July. YouTube claims viewers watch over 100 million videos on its site daily. […]

Former Intermix Chairman and CEO Brad Greenspan is back on his soapbox, claiming that News Corp.’s MySpace acquisition burned shareholders. In a report issued today, Greenspan claims Intermix Media dealmakers sold the company cheap for personal gain. Greenspan goes on to call for further investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Department […]

As industry narratives go, the imminent demise of old media brands is a popular one, nearly canonical. But today there is another new data set, this one from National Newspaper Associate (NAA), citing Nielsen//NetRatings. It suggests that traditional media brands from the New York Times to the Toledo Blade might not be on their last […]

Facebook will tell you that its most valuable asset is its deeply engaged, Web-savvy user-base. But sometimes you have to wonder if the company didn’t wish those users were just a tad less engaged or just a tad less savvy. Take the latest efforts of another passionate Facebook user, John Arrow. He’s a sophomore at […]

Yahoo Web search was already available for Internet-connected mobile devices, but now Yahoo is trying to make money off it. Today, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced the beta launch of sponsored search results for its Mobile Web service. Yahoo spokesperson Nicole Leverich told internetnews.com the beta offering will go live in the U.S., U.K. and […]

Today, AOL launched its first major product upgrade since the company began to refashion itself as an advertising supported portal last summer. Historically, AOL has relied on consumer’s monthly subscription fees, in addition to ad revenue. AOL’s new OpenRide combines access to email, instant messaging, Web browsing, search and an all-in-one digital entertainment media center […]

Qchex.com, an Internet-based check creation and delivery service, has agreed to a temporary restraining order to halt what the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) calls unfair business practices. The FTC said Qchex creates and sends checks drawn on any bank account identified by a Qchex customer without verifying that the customer has authority to write checks […]

Zecco.com, an online financial portal, today announced it will begin offering free online stock trading next week. The site is already open for user registration, though it will remain in beta until the launch of free- trading, Zecco spokeswoman Shellee Smith told internetnews.com. Smith said Zecco can afford to offer zero-commission trading because it plans […]