Yahoo may be putting 50 of its properties on the chopping block as new CEO Scott Thompson looks to make the once-dominant internet portal a little leaner and more nimble, but apparently small businesses are important enough to Yahoo that it will create new products. Today, Yahoo did just that by launching an online dashboard...Read More
If you’re an SEO, chances are you’re familiar with SEOmoz. The Seattle-based company is a brand name in the SEO space, and the company’s CEO, Rand Fishkin, a highly-visible figure in the industry. For all of the company’s success, however, growing SEOmoz hasn’t always been easy. Last year, for instance, Fishkin revealed on his blog...Read More
Arguably Jeff Dachis is most known for co-founding the interactive marketing and design agency, Razorfish, in 1995. A two person operation which started in Dachis’s bedroom in New York, blossomed into a 2200 strong company worth more than six billion dollars. With the dot-com crash, Razorfish fell with it. Its shares plunged to $ 1...Read More
For social sites, the graph points ever upwards. But will they always be cool enough to attract young users? It’s an exciting time in digital. As the giants of the internet jostle for pole position, it feels like we’re moving into some sort of endgame. Or, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Facebook is clearly...Read More
Entrepreneurs dream of building at least one successful, multi-million dollar company in their lifetime. Gurbaksh Chahal has already built three, and he’s still only 28. He sold his first online advertising startup, ClickAgents, for $ 40m to ValueClick, followed by his second company, BlueLithium, for $ 300m to Yahoo. His third venture, RadiumOne, has achieved...Read More
