New Net connection? Don't forget the freebies! (rediff.com) In past couple of days, as many as three new Internet firms have announced cash as well as gifts ranging from movie tickets to discount coupons to lure more customers to log on to their websites....more...Expedia, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Expedia, Inc. today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2007....more... Search Month: July 2007 Search News, In Review (Search Engine Land) Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It's also available by feed here . Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from July 2007, then a major story for various search topics along with other stories related to those topics since our last monthly newsletter through today. Click to ......more... Extreme telecommuting (CNN Money) Anthony Page stood on the beach of Malaysia's tiny Perhentian Kecil Island and marveled at the isolation. Around him were bamboo huts and miles of blue water. Much of the island was jungle, inhabited by coconut-hurling monkeys and giant monitor lizards. Yet he wasn't entirely cut off. At night, when the electricity came on, Page could pull out his laptop and hook up, via satellite link, to the ......more... Lazard Ltd Reports First-Half and Second-Quarter 2007 Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) NEW YORK----Lazard Ltd today announced financial results for the first half and second quarter ended June 30, 2007. Net income assuming full exchange of exchangeable interests increased to $116.5 million for the first half of 2007 from $115.4 million for the first half of 2006....more... Extreme telecommuting (Business 2.0 via Yahoo! Finance) Anthony Page stood on the beach of Malaysia's tiny Perhentian Kecil Island and marveled at the isolation. Around him were bamboo huts and miles of blue water. Much of the island was jungle, inhabited by coconut-hurling monkeys and giant monitor lizards....more... FCC Says Wireless Could be America's "Third Pipe" (AnandTech) The Federal Communications Commission believes the 700 MHz spectrum could save the U.S. from broadband duopoly, but it's apprehensive about Google's wholesale requirements......more... American gets 15-yr term for supporting LeT (Express India) Mahmud Faruq Brent has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for conspiring to provide material support to militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is committed to jihad against the US and its allies....more... Maryland Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Providing Material Support to Terrorist Organization (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) Mahmud Faruq Brent, also known as "Mahmud Almutazzim," was sentenced this morning to 15 years' imprisonment, the statutory maximum sentence, on charges that he conspired to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Lashkar-e-Taiba (roughly translated as "Army of the Pure") which is committed to violent jihad against the United States and its allies, announced Michael J. ......more... |