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LCD Companies Plead Guilty to Price Fixing
LG, Sharp and Chunghwa have pled guilty to charges of fixing the price of LCD panels in defiance of the Sherman Antitrust Act and have agreed to pay $585 million in fines, the Justice Department said Wednesday. LG will pay $400 million, the second-highest criminal fine ever imposed by the DOJ's Antitrust Division. Sharp will pay $120 million and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd, a Taiwanese manufacturer, will pay $65 million.read more
search.sys-con.com Thursday, November 13, 2008Google to let businesses generate more search pages (Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said on Thursday it is launching a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service to instantly incorporate and update new Web pages in the latest phase of its expansion into business services.
yahoo.com Thursday, November 13, 2008Cassatt to Transform Data Centers Into 'Internal Clouds'
"Cloud computing offers great promise by having third parties deliver the computing resources needed to run applications as an on-demand service, with a lot of the IT infrastructure invisible to the user," said Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of Cassatt Corp. "However, at this point most IT professionals are not comfortable outsourcing the mission-critical parts of their sensitive internal applications to an external cloud provider. They are concerned about availability, vendor lock-in, not having the control they need, and having to rebuild these applications from scratch with proprietary tools running on provider-specific platforms."read more
search.sys-con.com Thursday, November 13, 2008Google Adds On-Demand Indexing to Site Search (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In another move to gain traction in the enterprise, Google on Thursday launched a new feature to help businesses that use its Site Search service instantly add and update Web pages.
yahoo.com Thursday, November 13, 2008Microsoft says rebate program draws new searchers (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that paying people to use its internet search engine is attracting new consumers, although there is little evidence that those people are making a habit of it.
yahoo.com Thursday, November 13, 2008Google Expands 'Site Search' Service (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Google on Thursday launched an on-demand indexing feature in its Site Search hosted platform that will allow customers to index their Web sites at any time.
yahoo.com Thursday, November 13, 2008Sina.com quarterly profit up 28 percent (AP)
AP - Sina.com Corp., a popular Chinese Web portal, said Thursday its quarterly profit rose 28 percent on strong advertising revenue and coverage of the Beijing Olympics despite slowing Chinese economic growth.
yahoo.com Thursday, November 13, 2008YouTube channels Google with search-driven ads (AP)
AP - Facing more pressure to profit from its huge audience, YouTube is letting advertisers promote their commercial clips alongside the search results at the internet's most popular video site.
yahoo.com Thursday, November 13, 2008SearchDay | Travel Brands Walking a Social Media Tight Rope
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Travel Brands Walking a Social Media Tight Rope; SES Chicago 2008 Invitation and Primer ; Ballmer Says No to Yahoo Acquisition, Maybe to Search Deal; and more.
Search Engine Watch Thursday, November 13, 2008SearchDay | Suing Google over Yahoo
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Suing Google over Yahoo; Social Media Link Building: From Fantasy to Reality; Google and Yahoo Search Ad Deal Canceled; and more.
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