Benjamin Edelman of Harvard Business School recently co-authored a paper entitled “Measuring Typosquatting Perpetrators and Funders”. In the paper, he concluded that Google makes US$497mil a year from typosquatting on the top 100,000 websites.
Driving along Malaysia’s North-South highway, one cannot help but be distracted by the many colourful billboards. Among the advertisers are mobile network providers - all of them claiming to have the “widest coverage”, “fastest 3G download” and “best quality”. Fortunately, this may soon change with the formation of an ads monitoring panel.
Microsoft’s 10-year partnership with Yahoo is now official. The news first broke out 6 months ago, after an aborted US$47 billion takeover by Microsoft in 2008. Last night, the company announced that they have obtained the green light from both US and European regulators.
Good God, I can’t believe we’re almost at the end of 2009 - time really flies! The last 2 months were pretty hectic for me, where I spent quite a bit of time and attention to help Locus-T prep their SEO and Google Adwords services. But I’m glad that things are moving quickly - we’ve recruited a handful of new staff, registered a company in Singapore, got an office and even managed to get the guys from Google to conduct some training.
