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Facebook Pages Eschews ‘Become a Fan’ for ‘Like’ Link

April 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Facebook said users will soon be able to join member brand pages by clicking like, arguing that users are universally more comfortable with the expression than the current become a fan option. This change will roll out in April on Facebook Pages. Altimeter Group founding analyst Charlene Li told eWEEK this should drive more people to engage, but will cause some confusion in the short term as the like of a brand, team, celebrity, etc., carries more weight than the like of an update status inside the News Feed.
– Facebook confirmed that users will soon be able to join member brand pages
by clicking quot;like, quot; arguing that users are universally more
comfortable with the expression than the current quot;become a fan quot;
option.
This change will roll out in April on Facebook Pages, those Facebook
…

Global Yellow Pages enters into licensing agreement with MediaCorp

March 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Global Yellow Pages Limited (GYPL), the publisher of directory services and leading search engine, today announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with MediaCorp Pte Ltd (MediaCorp), allowing it to reproduce and use GYPL’s data on MediaCorp’s Mocca.

The licensing agreement is significant for mainboard-listed GYPL as it marks a step in GYPL’s efforts to license its valuable and vast database to third parties.

Global Yellow Pages posts net profit falls by half to $9.4m for 9M09

February 11th, 2010 | No Comments

Global Yellow Pages, the publisher of telephone directories and provider of classified directory advertising reported group revenue for the nine months ended Dec 31 2009 (9MFY2010) of $31.2 million, a decrease of $25.2 million compared to the corresponding period last year due to the revised publication dates for the Singapore Phone Directories Consumer and Chinese editions and also the impact of the economic recession.

Google Caps First Click Free at Five Pages to Appease Publishers

December 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Google Dec. 1 is letting publishers limit the number of articles readers can view for free on its search and Google News site to five per day. The move came the same day News Corp. founder and publishing mogul Rupert Murdoch lashed out at online aggregators for raking in ad revenues from content without compensating publishers. Murdoch, who threatened last month to de-index the Wall Street Journal and other paid content from Google, is reportedly working on a deal that would make Google rival Microsoft Bing’s fledgling search engine an exclusive host partner of Journal and other News Corp. content.
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Google Dec. 1 extended an olive branch to newspaper
publishers by letting them limit the number of articles readers can view for
free on Google News to five per day.
The move came the same day News Corp. founder and
publishing mogul Rupert Murdoch, speaking at a Federal Trade Commi…

Facebook Cedes Content to Twitter for Facebook Pages, Not Profiles

August 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook allows administrators of Facebook Pages to post Facebook photos, events, links and status updates to Twitter. However, this sharing feature won’t work for individual users who want to take Facebook content to Twitter. So, users can still bring tweets into Facebook, but can’t bring content stored in Facebook out.
– Facebook Aug. 20 said it is allowing administrators of Facebook Pages to
automatically post Facebook updates to Twitter, building a narrow bridge to its
microblogging rival.
Facebook Pages are special profiles public figures, musicians, businesses
and organizations use as marketing tools, or to …

House Health Care BIll (Pages 101-150)

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

House Health Care Bill (Pages 101-150)

P. 101

coverage, for the period of time beginning on
the date of birth and ending on the date the
child otherwise is covered under acceptable cov-
erage (or, if earlier, the end of the month in
whic…

House Health Care BIll (Pages 51-100)

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

House Health Care Bill (Pages 51-100)

P. 51

covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to
personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of
high quality health care or related services.
(b) IMPLEMENTATION.–To implemen…

How Newspapers Abdicated the Front Pageâ€™s Influence and How They Can Get it Back By Linking

September 22nd, 2008 | No Comments

The front page of the newspaper used to set the news agenda. Extra, Extra, read all about it! But that influence has steadily waned through the TV and Cable News era, and the web now threatens to obliterate it entirely.
So who sets the news agenda now? One significant influence is a guy with nothing but [...]