Steve Bryant

Yahoo launched a new personal finance site today. They’ve got licensed content from the Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, Consumer Reports and the Motley Fool. For those of you who don’t understand the difference between a Roth and a regular IRA, or need how-to guides for tax planning, budgeting, etc., this looks like a pretty comprehensive […]

googlephone.jpg Engadget is running two supposed photographs of the still-mythical Googlephone–which has been a rumored Google project for at least a year–but skeptics say it’s just a Photoshopped video iPod. I couldn’t agree more. Google is certainly interested in mobile phones–it began testing mobile AdWords last year in eight countries, launched a real-time traffic data […]

Yahoo Answers recently added a feature–similar in appearance to Google’s Gmail stars–that allows you to “star” individual answers. Those starred answers are then added to your public profile page, and you can view what other members have starred that answer. Most importantly: “Starring questions lets the Answers community surface the best questions on the site. […]

JPMorgan released findings from a recent survey of consumer spending behavior, including consumer adoption of Google Checkout and PayPal. Loren Baker at SEJ has the details, and you can download the research here. The salient points: Google has 6 percent adoption among online consumers, and those Checkout users are likely affluent and twice as likely […]

Google filed a patent application in December that hints at its plans to place contextual advertising on billboard displays. The application for a “network of electronic display devices” covers a technology that would let local stores tie their stock-control computers to a Google-powered ad network. If a store does not have an item in stock, […]

(via Andy Beal) Pete Abilla built an AJAXified timeline of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft acquisitions. It’s a pretty neat tool, though sometimes hard to interpret, but check it out. Notice how the pace of acquisitions for all companies increased significantly in 2005. In 2002, Microsoft seems to be the only company making moves (I assume […]

Google’s been suffering some security issues of late, which may cause some of you to be anxious about how much of your data is on Google’s servers. While you’re waiting for the G Poppa to fix the latest vulnerabilities, you can at least make yourself feel a little more secure by managing those old Google […]

Google is considering a move to Lenoir, N.C., a small blue-collar town primarily known for its failing furniture industry. State and local governments have offered Google more than $100 million in tax breaks, estimating that a Google facility in Lenoir could bring in over $600 million in new investment, equal to half the city’s tax […]

This has nothing to do with search engines, but it seems to be so incredibly absurd I thought it deserved a honored spot in the “Today in Stupid” category. Paramount Music Corporation, Warner Bros., and several other publishing companies are suing Washington-based Guiseppe’s Italian Restaurant for hosting public performances of popular jazz tunes by the […]

Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using Google Earth images to pinpoint their attacks, according to the Telegraph. “Documents seized during raids on the homes of insurgents last week uncovered print-outs from photographs taken from Google.The satellite photographs show in detail the buildings inside the bases and vulnerable areas such as tented accommodation, lavatory […]