Google faces a brain drain as high-flyers it has made super rich fly the nest

But, apparently, lots of other stay because of the perks.

According to John Battelle Google is one of the people being mentioned as candidate interested in buying NBC John Battelle's Searchblog: Google -

It looks like Zunch Communications filed for bankruptcy:

Yesterday at AdTech, YouTube's head of advertising Suzie Reider announced that ads are coming to YouTube this summer and that they are experimenting with the precise length, form, and placement of tho

Honey Pot people filed what they claim to be the largest anti-spam lawsuit ever, check this out.

Lawsuit Against Spammers

Okay, so it isn't there just yet, but you know it's going to happen: Story on Motely Fool regarding another Google purchase

Looks like the big fish is hungry.

The WSJ has a story about slowing ad revenue growth on newspaper websites:

New York Times Co. warned Thursday that online advertising growth this year won't be as strong as the 30% it had projected. On the same day, Tribune Co. reported that the growth rate for first-quarter interactive revenue was sharply lower than a year earlier. Gannett Co. likewise said online revenue growth slowed in the first quarter from a year earlier.

sma-uk website no longer live and points to a holding page

http://www.sma-uk.org/

maybe one of the sma-uk commitee members would like to explain what has happened ?

John Andrews recently wrote an article about how consumer ignorance and carnival barkers lead to a market that is a self fulfilling prophecy

This was already noted on Threadwatch that Yahoo was blamed for the arrest and beating for handing info on bloggers to China, however now it's a lawsuit Full Story

Google's quarterly earning are in and profits are up:

Experian have acquired Hitwise for a reported £120m.

From the press release:

According to TechCrunch eBay has beat out two other potential suitors (AOL & Google) and has signed a term

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. reported on Tuesday an 11 percent fall in quarterly profit, missing Wall Street estimates as a new advertising system aimed at clawing back market share from Google has yet to take hold.

As reported by Reuters, Yahoo Inc.

Google has now confirmed it has a Powerpoint app that will be part of Google Office

The WSJ reports that Google is taking heat from competing companies:

Microsoft Corp., AT&T Inc., Time Warner Inc. and several other large Internet and media companies are hoping to encourage antitrust regulators to closely scrutinize Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion planned purchase of Internet ad services firm DoubleClick Inc.

AT&T and Microsoft are pushing the anti-trust issue? Funnier things have happened, though rarely.

CLEAR CHANNEL has an advertising deal with GOOGLE.... Developing...

This isn't recent news but it's been dodging around on my radar recently. I finally got time to have a look through it today.

Samsung has announced that their first quarter profit has fallen 15% on the same period last year, their worse earnings repo