Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution (Part 4)

SM: What percentage of your clients are mobile clients? CR: I would say the mobile phone platforms drive about 60% of our revenue base, 65%. SM: What about media? CR: Media is about 15%. One thing about our company is we only deal with larger media companies. So, it’s a model we’ve perfected over the

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: ResellerRatings.com, American Canyon, California

Today’s special Deal Radar returns to ResellerRatings.com, a company I covered in a 2008 interview with its founder, Scott Wainner. American Canyon, California-based ResellerRatings.com is a platform for consumer ratings and reviews of online retailers. It features 430,000 reviews of 24,000 retailers, and its reviews are syndicated to Google Product Search, Bing Shopping, Google AdWords

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The Microsoft–Yahoo! Deal

Last week I wrote Yahoo! Going Nowhere, “So far, I have seen absolutely NOTHING from Carol Bartz on a compelling strategy.”

Microsoft Needs Acquisition Spree

After positive quarterly results from IBM and Apple, it looked as though we could see the beginning of a tech stock recovery. But yesterday’s report from Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) cast a shadow on those hopes. The truth, however, is that Microsoft is making a grand display of bad products and bad strategy.

Demystifying Horizontal vs. Vertical Searches

By Guest Author Saad Fazil In an earlier post I argued that Google would benefit from acquiring search engines in verticals such as travel, jobs, and products. By doing so, Google can retain “rich” traffic which otherwise might directly go to those search engines for specific needs.