All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Internet

Some authors are $60 per scanned book richer. That's better than nothing. But Google gets to monetize all that content for a pittance. Some wealth gets re-distributed, which is probably a good thing.

Google has potentally created another new industry around books that were mostly only gathering dust. A cornucopia of information is being made available, and it's only small change for Google.

Yahoo faces a miserable head wind entering this holiday season.  Retail marketers, those likely to drop big bucks around Turkey Day, are having a very bad Fall and may not chase the ghost of Christmas Future.  Yahoo's dependence on online display ad revenue could be disastrous for their holiday...

Google will see slowing search business domestically, of course, but they continue to expand in other arenas that take advantage of their competitive positioning.  Like Amazon.com and Apple, they make moves based on the opportunity, even if the opportunity may not be apparent to the investment...

The internet and specifically search engines are where people go today for deep discounts, low costs, answers, information, and new jobs... Each and every year, the rotation (when feasible) more consumers find comfort within Internet properties.

Google increases in profitability in direct correlation to the global economic crisis.  The internet and specifically search engines are where people go today for answers, information, and new job listings.     

As I have discussed in previous notes, corn needs ethanol like ethanol needs corn.

Google has locked down the strongest online video share with their Youtube offering.  Are they headed toward locking down customers via landline fiber, where they can act as ISP, Service Provider, and major advertising power on the net?

Two or three years ago MySpace Music‘s latest initiative would have been just what the market needed to connect with disillusioned fans. Today it is nothing special. Imeem, Last.fm and iLike (which is partnered with Facebook) all offer the same or very similar offerings. Furthermore, unlike its competitors,...

1. Zenith Optimedia, Universal McCann, WPP, BMO Capital Markets, Oppenheimer, Lehman Brothers and eMarket all have announced downward revision of overall Ad spend for 2008           2. Nielsen Monitor-Plus: first-half U.S. ad spend declined 1.4 percent,...