Facebook Announces New Chief Financial Officer

Facebook has named David Ebersman, the former executive vice president and chief financial officer of the biotechnology company Genentech, its new chief financial officer (CFO). Ebersman will report to Facebook’s Chief Executive Officer and Founder Mark Zuckerberg.

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Websites and News Aggregators Struggle to Handle Traffic Related to Jackson’s Death

After the first reports of Michael Jackson’s demise surfaced online last week, the Internet struggled to keep pace with the record number of queries and traffic as people sought out the details.

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Websites and News Aggregators Struggle to Handle Traffic Related to Jackson’s Death

Mother’s Day Gift and Coupon Sites Top Websites in May 2009

After April 2009′s focus on swine flu and social networking, U.S. consumers shifted their attention to purchasing Mother’s Day gifts and finding coupons in May 2009, comScore’s latest analysis of consumer activity shows.

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Mother’s Day Gift and Coupon Sites Top Websites in May 2009

Readers Track Favorite Journalists with New Google News Feature

Google News recently launched a new feature that allows readers to follow the work of their favorite journalists. Clicking on the name of a specific journalist will bring up a list of all articles associated with him or her.

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Yahoo! Announces Easy Display Ad Solution

Originally an extension of a program that Yahoo! and AdReady offered to select Yahoo! Small Business customers last year, Yahoo! has announced that its display ad solution My Display Ads is now available to help small and medium-sized businesses easily reach their target audience.

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Bing Continues to Burgeon

After claiming a fraction of the search market in the first week of its launch, company-ascribed “decision engine” Bing continued to burgeon and see gains during its second week as well, according to comScore.

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Bing Continues to Burgeon

Memorial Day, , and Obama Top List of Blog Topics in May 2009

Holidays, movies, and politics were at the forefront of bloggers

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Memorial Day, , and Obama Top List of Blog Topics in May 2009

Facebook Revamps Search-Still in Testing Phase

In an effort to provide its users with a chance to participate in its product development process, Facebook is testing new versions of Facebook Search with a small portion of its users.

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Facebook Revamps Search-Still in Testing Phase

Google Adds Local Businesses to Product Search Results

Last week, Google began to experiment with incorporating local businesses into its product search results. This feature, which is intended to benefit both local businesses and consumers who want to purchase products locally, is now open to all participants.

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New Common Tag Format

A group of web companies–Yahoo!, AdaptiveBlue, DERI (NUI Galway), Faviki, Freebase, Zemanta, and Zigtag–have created a new tagging format for Web pages called Common Tag.

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