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Expedia Takes Stock as TripAdvisor Gets Ready to Fly the Coop

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 9, 2011 at 9:44 am PT

Now that Expedia’s spinoff of TripAdvisor is imminent, the hard work begins to give investors a reason to stick with the online travel agency once its high-flying media business is gone.

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Google, Amazon Likely to Lead Black Friday's E-Commerce Gains

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 25, 2009 at 3:07 pm PT

Black Friday is expected to kick off a more upbeat e-commerce season this year, but heavyweights Amazon.com, Google and eBay are poised to make the biggest holiday gains, analysts said.

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Yahoo Lands on China's "Vulgar Content" List

Loretta Chao and Sue Feng, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 10, 2009 at 8:27 am PT

The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center has released the latest list of “vulgar content” offenders (in Chinese). This time, Google escaped mention–but Yahoo China and a popular real-estate portal, Soufun, did not.

Who Needs Big Music on YouTube? The Best Video of 2009 Is Homegrown.

Peter Kafka in Media on March 7, 2009 at 9:52 pm PT

The best music video to land on YouTube so far this year doesn’t come from any of the major labels–it comes from YouTube. Meet Kutiman, who makes music using other people’s video clips. Amazing stuff.

Social Networking's Advertising Dilemma: Which Came First, the Ad or the Consumer?

Kara Swisher in News on December 15, 2008 at 8:40 am PT

Another day, another article about how social-networking advertising has a steep uphill ride to get to any kind of decent pinnacle of profitability. This time, it’s the New York Times’s Digital Domain columnist Randall Stross weighing in on the allegedly troubled experiments going on between Facebook and the world’s largest advertiser, Procter & Gamble. But the article represents the high-water mark of the Facebook-Is-Dead theme, which was, of course, preceded by the Facebook-Is-Immortal story. BoomTown did not buy the latter, but I certainly don’t accept the former either.