Clint Boulton

While the financial experts wait on tenterhooks to learn how the Yahoo-Microsoft bid will shake out and how the Internet company will fare in its quarterly earnings announcement April 22, Yahoo’s programmers continue to crank out new software. BrowserPlus is the latest tool to slip into beta from the company’s secretive Brickhouse incubator unit, according […]

Six Apart on April 21 acquired Apperceptive and launched a community development service and advertising group, a move that signals the blogging tools provider is ready to become a full-fledged media player. San Francico’s Six Apart has succeeded in creating blog publishing services but needs to build out its offerings to avoid stagnation in an […]

Voice-over-IP provider and Ebay property Skype began offering unlimited long-distance calling for landline numbers in 34 countries, an effort to increase the division’s footprint to a third of the world’s population. As of April 21, users can make calls whenever they want wherever they want to landlines for $9.95 per month. The countries include most […]

Mess with Google’s mind share, and feel the backlash. That’s the lesson ComScore learned Thursday after Google handily beat first-quarter financial expectations by announcing a 31 percent profit and paid click growth of 20 percent. No one is disputing Google’s paid clicks are down–they grew 30 percent last quarter–but ComScore foreshadowed something worse than what […]

With Microsoft’s SharePoint software experiencing explosive growth in the last year or so, it’s important for IBM’s Lotus Software Group to keep up its product cycles to facilitate sales growth. The competitive motivation has clearly kicked in. IBM posted 17 percent growth for its Lotus division in the first quarter, marking the 14th consecutive quarter […]

Google swatted aside concerns about weakness in paid clicks by reporting a 31 percent profit for its first-quarter 2008 earnings April 17. The Mountain View, Calif., search vendor reported net income of $1.31 billion on $4.12 per share, from $1 billion on $3.18 a share in the first quarter of 2007. Google tallied $5.19 billion […]

IBM quietly promoted Lotus Software Group General Manager Mike Rhodin two weeks before his division reported a 17 percent year-over-year increase in first-quarter earnings April 16. An IBM spokesperson told eWEEK that the Armonk, N.Y., company made the change April 1, handing over the Lotus reins to Bob Picciano, previously vice president of worldwide information […]

A lot has happened in Web analytics this week. Less than a week after Yahoo bought Web analytics software maker IndexTools, Yahoo made IndexTools Web Analytics software free to better compete with the free Google Analytics and Microsoft’s AdCenter Analytics tools. Also, Google released its Website Optimizer tool and version 6 of Urchin. Web analytics […]

Vegesna said Salesforce.com is spending too much on marketing and not enough on R&D. Salesforce.com’s fortified integration with Google could bolster both companies’ strategies to tackle Microsoft in the applications market. But the deal might not have happened if Salesforce.com acquired Zoho two years ago. That’s what Zoho Evangelist Raju Vegesna told eWEEK in a […]

U.S. representatives feel that they let Google manipulate the 700MHz spectrum auction. Electronista and other blogs are reporting that three U.S. representatives lamented the fact that Google bid for 700MHz spectrum to ensure the winner must open up access to all devices and applications. Republicans Cliff Stearns and John Shimkus and Democrat Eliot Engel complained […]

Google’s search share increased a half percent in March compared with February, but that’s not what has financial analysts flapping their gums a day before the search giant announces first-quarter earnings. Google, whose Internet query market share was 59.8 percent in March, also posted only a 2.7 percent gain in paid clicks from March 2007 […]

Blog software maker and host Six Apart has joined the raft of rabid programmers looking to use Facebook as a springboard for new user and, ultimately, financial opportunities. Six Apart on April 16 launched Blog It, a service that allows users to post to their blogs or microblogs from within Facebook. Ideally, users who ceased […]