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Excite UK has 30 days to avoid closure
News It is unfortunate that the global downturn in media advertising has negatively affected Excite UK's financial performance," said Rebecca Miskin, managing director of Excite UK, in a statement. Company executives blame the downturn in the technology...
[November 13, 2001, 15:46]
Microsoft invests in business ads, multitouch
News Microsoft's view is that business leaders who maintain a long-term perspective — even as they take short-term steps to adjust to the current economic realities — have the chance to emerge from a downturn in a better position than they were in before.
[January 13, 2009, 7:31]
Yahoo! hits two million mark
News has determinedly chased subscription revenues after seeing a continued drop in advertising throughout the dot-com downturn. Web portal Yahoo! has provided an upbeat start to 2003 with news that it has now signed up two million paying subscribers to...
[January 7, 2003, 16:03]
AOL beats lowered estimates
News The division was hit hard this quarter by the downturn in advertising, a trend that is unlikely to improve in the near future. We believe this sudden drop may be the result of the rolling off of long-term contracts priced at the height of the...
[October 17, 2001, 15:48]
Yahoo! beats Street's target by a hair
News However, there were few signs that the company would soon overcome the advertising downturn. said it expects advertising to make up about 80 percent of its revenue for the full year, with the remainder made from corporate and premium services.
[July 12, 2001, 9:26]
Sites aim to get around ad blockers
News MediaBeam's announcement highlights fears among publishers of a consumer backlash against the moneymaking efforts that many sites see as necessary for survival amid a downturn in the advertising market.
[October 11, 2001, 9:05]
Yahoo! to clip divisions, lay off 400
News The Web portal has been hammered by a steep downturn in advertising spending, which accounts for about 80 percent of its revenue. offered details of its long-awaited turnaround strategy on Thursday, hinging its future on advertising, exclusive paid...
[November 16, 2001, 9:15]
UPDATE: First-e takes the slow road
News First-e downplayed the influence of the dot-com stocks downturn in its decision, revealed Monday, to scrap an expensive television advertising blitz. Industry observers agree that banking, unlike retail, requires an ongoing relationship of trust...
[October 26, 2000, 11:48]
Business 2.0 closes European editions
News Publishers worldwide are suffering from an economic downturn that has seen companies tighten their marketing and advertising budgets. The Future Network, the parent company of Business 2.0 publisher Imagine Media, said the closures result from the...
[July 3, 2001, 11:43]
Sony brings Screenblast to shops
News In February, Sony laid off 30 percent of the staff working on the Screenblast site as the result of a prolonged downturn in advertising sales, the company said at the time. The site does not display advertising now, however.
[October 30, 2002, 8:19]
Yahoo!'s chief reaches out to Hollywood
News struggles to reverse a string of setbacks brought on by the sudden downturn in the online advertising market. stem a steep decline in online advertising. Despite his distinguished career as the longtime Warner Brothers studio chief, analysts have...
[June 27, 2001, 12:27]
Ads to pop up on eBay
News Such sites began adopting the pop-up ads, as well as other, larger ad units as a result of the downturn in online advertising and the criticism of the effectiveness of banners ads. Third-party advertising on eBay contributed 8 percent of the...
[May 13, 2002, 10:38]
Online job ads keep sliding
News Olivier points out that the figures reflect other industry measurements, and as such do not show a turn away from online advertising, and although he concedes they latest downturn is at to a certain extent seasonally effected, the Index does not...
[January 7, 2002, 12:25]
Novell's Schmidt joins Google at critical time
News Despite the sharp downturn in the fortunes of online companies in general, Google has been steadily gaining traction for its search technology and is now poised to post its first profit, according to executives.
[March 27, 2001, 9:13]
AOL Time Warner likely to cut 1,000 jobs this week
News But advertising covers 25 percent of the entire company's revenue, leading Wall Street to question AOL Time Warner's immunity to the economic downturn. However, the souring economy and the collapse of advertising dollars seem to have affected the...
[August 21, 2001, 9:00]
Adobe ships new Photoshop
News The downturn in advertising spending is the biggest hurdle they have," he said. The new Photoshop is expected to provide a significant boost to Adobe's earnings, which have suffered in recent quarters as a weak advertising market undermined...
[April 16, 2002, 14:42]
Google's profits double year-on-year
News Even a seasonal downturn was muted this year as a result, Google CFO George Reyes said. Reporting for the first time as a publicly traded company, Google recorded a third-quarter profit of $52m that more than doubled on booming online advertising...
[October 22, 2004, 13:10]
The Industry Standard to stop publishing
News The weekly tech magazine ultimately became part of the Internet zeitgeist it covered, taking off with the Internet boom and landing hard when the downturn dried up advertising dollars and put hundreds of companies out of business.
[August 17, 2001, 9:41]
Yahoo plans jobs cuts as profit falls
News Yahoo is not immune to the ongoing economic downturn, but careful cost management in the first quarter allowed our operating cash flow to come in near the high end of our outlook range," Bartz said. Yahoo's first-quarter net income dropped 78...
[April 22, 2009, 8:23]
Time Computers denies tales of woe
Talkback However in the stores business was slow, our managers could not explain the downturn, and they recognised it yet were impotent to correct it. Shockingly Tiny disguised its losses by telling staff that profits were lower as the cost of advertising...
[July 28, 2005, 3:34]
