MerchantCircle Answers lets small businesses show off their expertise
MerchantCircle creates and manages profile pages for small businesses, and it says it has built a sizable user base and reached profitability earlier this year.. Now it’s trying to offer those businesses more ways to attract customers online, with new services called MerchantCircle Answers and… Continue Reading
When Google fails, the Internet fails
Here are eye-catching illustrations of why GoogleFail, this morning’s slowdown/outage of numerous Google services, was a Very Big Deal. Above, you can see how much data was transferred by 10 different internet service providers monitored by security company Arbor Networks. Below, you can see traffic… Continue Reading
Web too busy for business during Obama inauguration?
People flooded to the Internet this morning to watch President Barack Obama get sworn in. Social networking site Facebook saw 4,000 status updates per minute during the inauguration, while Twitter users made five times the normal amount of “tweets” per second. GigaOm wondered if the… Continue Reading
Citysearch, Merchantcircle connect their local business services
Citysearch, an online guide service about local US businesses, has partnered with MerchantCircle, in an effort to hold their own in the increasingly competitive area of local reviews.
The move comes as Citysearch is under attack from newer, fresher sites like Yelp, which offers reviews about… Continue Reading
MerchantCircle, helps small businesses market online — aggressively
Online advertising remains hot. But with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo fighting to serve advertising to large companies and publishers, smaller business clients are left neglected.
MerchantCircle, a controversial Silicon Valley company helping thousands of small businesses market themselves online, has raised $10 million in financing to… Continue Reading
Roundup: Bombs, don’t do Delaware, MySQL IPO & more
The latest Silicon Valley round-up:
Correlation between bomb building and entrepreneurship? — Former PayPal chief executive Peter Thiel reportedly says four of six founders of the online payment service built bombs while in high school. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson designs rockets.
MyYearbook.com, a social networking… Continue Reading