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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Mobile Social Network Mozat Makes Waves In Asia, Raises Funding	Mozat, the mobile social networking platform formerly known as Morange, is making strides in Asia and the Middle East. The eponymous company behind the app has just announced that it has surpassed 10 million registered users, predominantly based in those regions. The startup has also disclosed that it raised a Series A funding round led by JAFCO Asia earlier this year, although it didn’t disclose the size of the investment. Mozat is in the mobile social networking business, and markets fr...	December 16, 2009
Bing, Google Take U.S. Search Share From Yahoo In November, ComScore Says	Microsoft (MSFT) Bing and Google (GOOG) both appeared to take market share from Yahoo (YHOO) in November, according to new data from ComScore. Google had 65.6% share for the month, up from 65.4% a month ago, and 63.5% a year ago. Microsoft Bing had 10.3% share, up from 9.9% a month ago, and 8.3% a year ago. Yahoo’s market share dropped to 17.5%, down from 18% a month ago, and 20.4% a year ago. Ask.com (IACI) had 3.8% share in the quarter, down from 3.9% a month ago, and 4% a year ago. AOL...	December 16, 2009
Aol Falls Behind Facebook in the U.S.	Just last week, AOL (AOL) celebrated its re-emergence as an independently-traded company. But its one main advantage is that it still commands a large audience, and in fact was the fourth largest Website in the U.S.—until last month. ComScore data for November, 2009 shows that Facebook surpassed AOL with 102.9 million unique visitors in the U.S., versus 99.7 million for AOL....	December 15, 2009
Facebook Passes Aol In The U.S.	Just last week, Aol celebrated its re-emergence as an independently-traded company. But its one main advantage is that it still commands a large audience, and in fact was the fourth largest Website in the U.S.—until last month. ComScore data for November, 2009 shows that Facebook surpassed Aol with 102.9 million unique visitors in the U.S., versus 99.7 million for Aol. Although Aol’s unique visitors grew by nearly a million since October 2009, Facebook grew by more than 5 million. ...	December 15, 2009
Bit.ly Goes Pro, Tells Goo.gl To Suck.it	The short gloves are off. Earlier today, both Google and Facebook got into the URL shortening game with goo.gl and fb.me. Google’s move in particular is a direct challenge to bit.ly, the rising independent standard among link shortening services. Bit.ly’s response is in effect to ask publishers and consumers who they trust with all their data: Google or the rest of the Web? To that effect, it is rolling out a new service called bit.ly Pro, which allows Web publishers to bit.ly t...	December 14, 2009
AOL Spikes On ICQ Deal Talk; Credit Suisse Says Sell	AOL (AOL) shares are sharply higher today on reports over the weekend that the company is in talks to sell its ICQ instant messaging service for $200 million to $300 million - and that the company is shopping its Bebo social networking site as well. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company may sell ICQ to Russia-based Digital Sky, a group best known for its $200 million investment in Facebook earlier this year. While many analysts remain skeptical about the fundamentals at AOL, the comp...	December 14, 2009
Google, DST Make Play for Aol's ICQ	A number of companies are pursuing AOL’s ICQ instant messaging product, we’re hearing. Russian press is saying Digital Sky Technologies (DST) (a recent Facebook investor) is talking about buying the service. Our sources say they’re a relatively new bidder to the process, and others continue to show interest. One of those interested parties is Google. Another, at least at one point, was Skype. ICQ, which AOL acquired in 1998 for $400 million, has 33 million worldwide monthly use...	December 14, 2009
Demand Media Acquisition Rumors Heat Up Again. CEO Says No Way.	Los Angeles based Demand Media, a sprawling network of content sites (that was a big part of a post yesterday on the end of hand crafted content), is rumored to be shopping itself to the big Internet companies. A couple of sources have told us that they’ve recently been talking with Yahoo, AOL and Google about an acquisition, and would like to exit for $1 billion or more. Those rumors are false, says CEO Richard Rosenblatt via a phone call this morning. He confirmed that discussions have h...	December 14, 2009
Google, DST Make Play For AOL’s ICQ	A number of companies are pursuing AOL’s ICQ instant messaging product, we’re hearing. Russian press is saying DST (a recent Facebook investor) is talking about buying the service. Our sources say they’re a relatively new bidder to the process, and others continue to show interest. One of those interested parties is Google. Another, at least at one point, was Skype. ICQ, which AOL acquired in 1998 for $400 million, has 33 million worldwide monthly users, according to Comscore. ...	December 13, 2009
The End Of Hand Crafted Content	Old media loves nothing quite so much as writing about their own impending death. And we always enjoy adding our own two cents – the AP not knowing what YouTube is, the NYTimes guys reading TechCrunch every day, etc. Speaking broadly, I like what Reuters, Rupert Murdoch and Eric Schmidt are saying: the industry is in crisis, and the daring innovators will prevail. Personally, I still think the best way forward for the best journalists, if not the brands they currently work for, is to leave...	December 13, 2009