ITV has finally bitten the bullet and sold ‘Friends Reunited’ for £25 Million. In total they paid £175 Million for the social network, so in little under four years the value of this online property has dropped by £150 Million. Ouch. That’s got to burn a hole in anyone’s wallet.
Despite this sale, Friends Reunited does [...]
Category Archives: Microsoft
Friends Reunited - £25m - Deal or no deal?
August 7, 2009 – 3:00 pm
Microsoft pay users to search. Bruce Forsyth would be proud…
October 2, 2008 – 4:05 pm
The latest attempt for Microsoft to gain traction in the search market comes in the shape of SearchPerks. Like [bust] ad models of days gone by [Alladvantage, bepaid.com etc.] SearchPerks encourages users to sign up and earn credits based on searching behaviour.
The programme, limited to 25,000 people installs a small tracking device [Internet Explorer only [...]
Can Social Networks Improve Productivity?
July 18, 2008 – 11:23 pm
Social networks are having an increasing impact upon behaviour at work. For well over year now, we’ve been seeing press reports about one corporation after another banning the use of social networking sites such as Facebook. Yet we’ve also seen many reports of management using information found on social networks to make decisions to hire [...]
Microsoft Launches Charity Search Engine
June 24, 2008 – 9:45 am
Microsoft has entered the charity space with a new US search engine called Search and Give. www.searchandgive.com. The premise is simple, sign up to the service [using your MSN/Live account details], nominate your chosen charity and start searching. Microsoft tracks the searches for the year and then delivers a cheque to the nomiated charity at [...]
