Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

The US publication Time Magazine honored Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg with the title of Person of the Year 2010. He has connected more than half a billion people and has expanded their social relationships, according to the publication. With the invention of a new system for information exchange, the 26 year old has revolutionized the lifestyles of countless individuals worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft’s Bing has been using free map material from the community project OpenStreetMap for their local offering with Bing Maps for a while now. The data exchange is now being intensified due to Steve Coast’s, OpenStreetMap’s founder, new job at Microsoft. Coast, as a leading manager, will be responsible for the integration of the Open Source Maps (OSM) to Bing Mobile, according to the Bing Blog. In return, OpenStreetMap will have access to the high-resolution aerials from Microsoft as well as a supporting software which would help simplify the mapping process through OpenStreetMap. Read the rest of this entry »

Oh goodness…Google’s deal with Groupon was pretty much as good as signed and sealed according to media reports (we report), but now it seems as if the deal has fallen through. US media reports reported this weekend that the negotiations were indefinitely interrupted, unfortunately without success. Read the rest of this entry »

Because some of the competition felt as if they were disadvantaged by list placement in searches, the European Commission has began investigating cartel allegations against Google. If the antitrust authority declares the search engine giant guilty of monopolistic practices and for breaking the European laws against cartels, Google may face a fine of up to ten percent of its profit. That would mean a penalty of 2.4 billion dollars. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, Nicaraguan soldiers began to excavate the Rio San Juan, to build a tent camp on the island of Calero, and to hoist the Nicaraguan flag because the island, according to the map data of Google Maps, clearly belongs to Nicaragua, which has rekindled a conflict between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Read the rest of this entry »

The first German places and sights, as well as some small towns, can now be seen online at Google Street View. With just a few clicks on the homepage, users can now access the controversial 360 degree pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

The European spin-off of the tech-blog TechCrunch is impressed from a true guerilla campaign in Germany. Just in time for the launch of Facebook Places in the country, the advertising agency Jung von Matt (JvM) captured the position of competitors in a pirate-like matter. But how? Read the rest of this entry »

The German Facebook community can as of today use the new location-based feature Places. With this, people can let their friends know where they are and find out if anyone else is coincidentally in the area. Read the rest of this entry »

The phonebook publishers Greven and Müller have something to celebrate: this year’s meeting of the EADP (European Association of Directory Publishers) in Venice resulted in Greven’s online portal www.online-coupons.de being honored in the innovation B2C category. The Müller Publishing firm was recognized in the category B2B for the portal www.lokale-internetwerbung.de. Read the rest of this entry »

We now have sufficient knowledge to know that the online-coupons business is very fertile, especially since the providers of coupon service are cropping their services to even more local levels. Exactly how fertile the couponing industry can be on the local level is displayed by the mother of all promotion hunters, Groupon: the service is now sponsoring users who are getting a baby. Read the rest of this entry »