VeriSign [ http://www.verisign.com ] has announced its almost-annual price increases for .com and .net domain names. The wholesale cost from VeriSign for .com domain names will increase from $7.34 to $7.85 on January 15, 2012 and the registry fee for .net domain names will increase from $4.65 to $5.11. The VeriSign fee doesn’t include
Google has been ramping up its transportation search features for desktop and mobile, but now it is shifting into full on travel mode with its Hotel Finder experiment. The Next Web reports that the utility is “designed to help users find the perfect hotel.” Easier said than done, of course, but maybe something that Google
There’s a general anxiety that has settled over much of the IT profession in recent years. It’s a stark contrast to the situation just over a decade ago. At the end of the 1990s, IT pros were the belles of the ball. The IT labor shortage regularly made headlines and IT pros were able to
Online greetings card retailer Moonpig.com has been sold to online digital photo service PhotoBox for £120 million in a merger that will create one of Europe’s largest personal publishers, the companies have announced. Nick Jenkins, the founder and chairman of Moonpig, is set for a multi-million pound windfall after agreeing to sell the business, including
SEO is critical to your website’s success, but if your site is targeting the wrong keywords, you are doomed for failure. Keyword Research Background Info Keyword research revolves around finding the perfect keywords (or key phrases which refers to the same thing as keywords) for your website to target. For example, one of the key
According to a study released Friday by web-tracking firm comScore, the web search giant’s new social networking tool, Google Plus, has amassed 20 million users in just three weeks since its launch on June 28. While that figure is still far from the 750 million registered users of Facebook, it is still enough to make
An online entrepreneur says that poor spelling is costing the UK millions of pounds in lost revenue for internet businesses. Charles Duncombe says an analysis of website figures shows a single spelling mistake can cut online sales in half. Mr Duncombe says when recruiting staff he has been “shocked at the poor quality of written
– Citrix announced on Tuesday that they were buying startup Cloud.com, adding to their portfolio a market that could bring $8 billion in sales by 2013. The deal also brings more competition to Amazon’s Web Services, which targets a different market. Web Services allows companies to run programs on Amazon servers instead of their own.
Just after Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced plans in May to buy Skype, he and Skype Chief Executive Officer Tony Bates had one more order of business. “The day we announced, we definitely came to see Mark,” Bates said, talking of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, at a press conference today announcing Facebook’s
Google has apparently killed off its Realtime search feature, or disabled it for a while, at the very least. Google’s recently unveiled social network, Google+, brought a host of changes with it, including a cleaner-looking user interface. An unexpected casualty of these changes may be Google’s Realtime search, developed to integrate real-time data from Twitter
PALO ALTO, Calif. — With more than 500 million members, Facebook is hugely attractive to small businesses as a place to market their wares. By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY Emily White is director of Local at Facebook, where she works with businesses to help them reach customers. But tips on how small businesses can best
How to Be a Great Link Builder Writing by Nick Stamoulis Link building is one of those things that is a complete learning process if you are trying to perform your own link building campaigns. It is important to realize that link building doesn’t always deliver direct traffic, so using the right measurement tools to