http://www.cheasyy.com Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:30:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Local search site CitySquares has made a very cool acquisition. They've purchased an online retail directory, Yokel.com. Yokel is designed to help you find which local stores carry specific products or brands. It was the brainchild of Scott Randall and Don Zereski and launched in 2006. CitySquares has been one of the ... http://www.cheasyy.com/citysquares-acquires-online-retail-directory-yokel-com After years of speculation, Apple is finally expected to unveil its new tablet product at the end of the month. There is great anticipation over the new device, with rumors, predictions and punditry littering the blogosphere. Apple fanboys and girls can't get enough. They're turning to the search engines to gobble ... http://www.cheasyy.com/searches-for-apple-tablet-on-the-rise If you go to Google.com/news and scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll now see Fast Flip. This is a visual-based news platform that was launched into Labs last September. It's designed to enable users to read the news similar to how they would a print edition - there ... http://www.cheasyy.com/google-adds-fast-flip-to-news-homepage Before 2009 came to a close, Google provided a look (as always) at the most searched for terms of the year. It showed the top ten fastest rising and fastest falling terms on both a global scale, and in the U.S. Globally, "Michael Jackson" was the fastest rising, while "Beijing ... http://www.cheasyy.com/google-shows-how-people-have-been-searching Landing page optimization (#lpo) can be a powerful way to increase conversion rates and to get more people to complete online forms. What you do after the form-fill can be even more important. If your next step is to follow up over the phone, you are probably kissing away money and costing ... http://www.cheasyy.com/kiss-your-phone-leads-goodbye Germany's justice minister is less than happy about the direction Google's headed.  Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger thinks the search giant may become a monopoly, and she's not of a mind to sit by while that happens behind closed doors. Germany has often posed something of a problem for Google.  It never won the ... http://www.cheasyy.com/german-justice-minister-likens-google-to-giant-monopoly David Carruthers, the former director and CEO of online sports wagering firm BetOnSports, was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Friday, the Justice Department announced. Carruthers, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was hired by BetOnSports founder, Gary Kaplan, in 2000 as CEO of the online wagering company, which ... http://www.cheasyy.com/betonsports-ceo-sentenced-to-prison Symantec has put together its "State of the Data Center" report, which is the product of a survey of 573 businesses in 26 countries. "Although mid-sized enterprises tend to evaluate and adopt new technologies at a faster rate than larger organizations, they still face similar data center complexities that are compounded ... http://www.cheasyy.com/enterprises-seeing-increased-complexity-at-data-centers The French government is working on a tax plan to charge online advertising revenue generated from actions within their country, Clickz reported Friday. Just how they would determine the numbers will be interesting to see. " A report presented to the French government this week suggests that each time an ad ... http://www.cheasyy.com/french-govt-wants-to-tax-online-ad-revenue-generated-from-thier-country Arguably the biggest news in the tech industry so far this year, has been Google's launch of the Nexus One smartphone. The company rocked the mobile space when it announced that it would be selling the device on its own without the need of a carrier contract (although such contracts ... http://www.cheasyy.com/google-tries-to-carve-out-its-place-in-mobile