Google Inc will give its staff a 10 percent pay increase at the start of next year, according to website Silicon Alley Insider.
Chief Executive Eric Schmidt informed Google’s more than 23,000 employees of the raise by email, the Wall Street Journal later reported.
Silicon Alley Insider, citing a reader, earlier reported that Google is giving all its employees a $1,000 holiday bonus in addition to pay increases of at least 10 percent.
Retail giant Amazon.com was reported last week to be severely undercutting diaper and baby needs supplier Diapers.com. Parent company Quidsi also operates Soap.com. Quidsi previously declined several buy-out offers from Amazon in the past.
Amazon’s latest acquisition offer came in at $540 million in cash according to Fortune. During hard times, the co-founders reluctantly accepted the offer. There was a sentiment that the company believed it could do very well and expand on it’s own.
Continue reading Amazon Pays $540 Million for Diapers.com & Soap.com
A new global TLD, .Free is being proposed by Czech-startup company dotFree Group. The company sells software used to set up a domain registrar while offering free .cz.cc domain names themselves.
At the company’s existing free domain website, nic.cz.cc we can find information on what the .Free catch might be. This information is not mentioned or implied on the new DotFree website. With the goal of discovering just how they were making a profit, I explored the website and came across some interesting details.
Continue reading How .Free Plans to Earn a Profit Giving Away Free Domains
In this article I will share a simple, six-step process for selling domains. This quick guide should be useful to experienced and aspiring domain investors as well as those looking to sell their first domain.
The six-steps below will break down some important tips and techniques for evaluating your domains, finding potential buyers, and gaining exposure to your sales.
This first step is the most crucial and should be done before you register or purchase a domain. What good is a domain name with no potential?
You should have quality keywords that are relevant to a product or service. Alternatively you can find a quality name that would be attractive when used for small business, startup or personal branding.
I often recommend the keyword route as these domains have added search engine optimization benefits. I believe keyword domains are easier to research, valuate, acquire and sell.
Continue reading How To Sell Domain Names: A Beginner’s Guide
Facebook, Amazon and Zynga are committed to helping social startups taking investments from newly created $250 million fund. TechCrunch has the story.
“Major industries are just beginning to reorganize themselves around social, and that a lot of disruption is going to happen over the next several years.
If you don’t have a social strategy, get one.”
Continue reading A $250 Million Bet That Social Is Just Getting Started
Of all the people using the internet and browsing websites everyday, the domain name industry is still a mystery to the majority of people.
In this article I will do my best to educate you on the little known aspects of the domain industry and debunk some of the most common misunderstandings and myths about domain names.
According to the latest VeriSign domain industry brief, there are over 80 million .COM domain names registered. So, there is some justification for this prevalent myth, but I’m here to tell you it is far from being completely true!
It is still possible to use keywords to create great quality two and three-word domains. Additionally, millions of the domains that have been claimed are destined to expire and become available again. Tools for researching and filtering through expired domains will forever prove this myth false.
The United States could run out of unique Internet addresses to assign to new devices by the end of next year, a telecommunications official said on Tuesday.
Internet Protocol version 4, known as IPv4, provides the dominant architecture for the Internet. It requires devices to have unique identifiers, known as an IP address, but it only has space for 4.3 billion of those addresses.
The recent profusion of mobile devices like Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPad, and the expansion of Internet services to more homes have quickly depleted available addresses.
An upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol with more space, called IPv6, is available, but adoption in the United States has lagged behind Europe, China and other countries.
“We now face an exhaustion of IPv4 addresses,” Lawrence Strickling, administrator of the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said at a meeting of government and industry stakeholders.
Continue reading Mobile Device Boom Sparks U.S. Net Address Shortage
Facebook, the world’s largest online social network, is likely to go public sometime after late 2012, a board member said, satisfying investors’ appetite for a slice of one of the Internet’s biggest growth stories.
A stock market debut by a company valued in the tens of billions of dollars would be one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings of the decade.
But Facebook board member, venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel stressed on Monday that will not happen until after late 2012, and would depend on the company hitting certain revenue targets and how its business model develops.
“It probably will IPO at some point. The lesson from Google seems to be that you don’t go public until very late,” Thiel told Reuters on the sidelines of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Monday.
Palo Alto, California-based Facebook, the booming social networking site dreamed up by Mark Zuckerberg and his buddies in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, is privately held and has released only nuggets of financial information.
Continue reading Facebook IPO likely after late 2012: board member
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