small business sentiment improved last month on hopes that the worst of the country’s recession was over, an industry group said on Tuesday, but conditions remain very weak.
The National Federation of Independent Business said its optimism index improved by 2.1 points to 88.6 in August, thanks to improved expectations for future business and real sales [...]
Google has introduced Google Domestic Trends on Google Finance. This is a feature that tracks search traffic (on Google) across specific sectors of the economy.
“The changes in the search volume of a given sector on google.com may provide useful economic insight,” Google says. “We have created 23 indexes that track the major economic sectors, such [...]
Google has added a “contact chooser” to Gmail, which allows users to simply click the “To:” link (or Cc/Bcc:) when composing a message to get a list of contacts from which to choose recipients. Previously, users just had to type the names/addresses in, although there has been an auto-complete feature, which made the process more [...]
Gannett’s PointRoll announced today it has joined the Yahoo Smart Ads program to help marketers focus on creating rich media ads and improve campaign performance.
As a member of Yahoo’s Smart Ads program, PointRoll will use Yahoo’s reach and targeting capabilities to provide more customized, relevant and scalable rich media campaigns. PointRoll will also use its [...]
