Archive for January, 2010
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Russian venture capital fund Bioprocess Capital Ventures has agreed to invest $18 million for a 50% stake in the Incuron joint venture with Cleveland BioLabs, the companies announced on December 30, 2009. The joint venture, Incuron is going to develop the Curaxin compounds for cancer applications. Cleveland BioLabs agreed to ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Since release of Avatar in Russia last December, I have watched the movie twice, both in 3D. I shall also go to IMAX movie theater in Moscow to watch it again. According to industry sources, Avatar has broken Russia box office records.
Avatar Russia box office reached over $62 million in ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Russian private equity firm UFG Private Equity together with Shari Redstone has bought out Rising Star Media that operates Kinostar De Lux chain of movie theaters in Russia from National Amusements, Inc and Soquel Ventures of Paul Heth.
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
The Google Maps team has been working hard with partner GeoEye to push out an updated imagery of Haiti. The update includes imagery taken at 10:27 am EST on Wednesday, January 13 - approximately 15 hours after the earthquake hit.
You can download the KML file to view in Google Earth ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Real estate search site Trulia is now offering the ability to purchase a percentage share of advertising on their site in order to target markets geographically. Dubbed simply Trulia Local Ads, the offering includes both display ads on the site and search listings.
"The Trulia Local Ads platform has completely opened ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
One of the best things I find about international SES conferences is just how much you can learn about the cultural and political differences in attitude to marketing. As a formal marketing student you learn very quickly about performing an environmental scan. This is not specifically about whether ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Google and AOL are up while Yahoo!, Bing and Ask.com are down from November in Nielsen's December 2009 search rankings. But let's face it, AOL is fueled by Google, so pretty much all of the gains belong to Google.
When you compare year-over-year numbers, things are pretty much abysmal for everyone ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
If you are running an AdWords campaign for a website on a shared domains, then you'll want to be aware of a new policy for displaying those URLs in your ads. From now on, the ad must show more clearly the destination a user will be heading to should they ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Bing has updated its health search results to assist in navigating to specific information that you'll find useful.
If you're curious about a medication, you can get quick info and search filters in a box that appears at the top of the results:
When you search for a disease, you'll find a ...
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
For the citizens of Haiti, real-time search may have arrived just in time. The 7.0 earthquake that shook the poverty-stricken nation hit just 5 hours ago, but you can easily find information about the disaster, and, most importantly organizations to donate to.
On each of the top four search engines, searching ...
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