Tag: BUY

How hip are you? Are you on the cutting edge of what's being talked about by those in the know? You know, the "twitterati"? (Sorry, I just gagged a little there.) If you enjoy stock market-based games, and tracking the trending topics on Twitter, you might want to have a look at Pretweeting. Pretweeting is a virtual stock market where the commodities that you buy and sell are trending words on ...

iLike, the popular social music service that took Facebook by storm, has always featured free 30-second preview clips of songs, but now they're getting into the business of selling full-length mp3 files. Prices are comparable to what we're used to from iTunes: songs range from 89 cents to $1.29. Songs that are available for purchase will have a "buy" button next to them in your profile. The ...

Google is all about buying companies. Not just any company, companies that help with their mission to organize all of the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Well, they have done it again with a site we profiled late last year, Panoramio. Panoramio was built as a Google Maps mashup that lets users map photos based on geographic locations. The company is based in ...

Could Google possibly buy another company? You bet, there is always room inside the what seems to be the hollow halls of the Googleplex. Rumors are getting passed around about a purchase of SimplyHired, the job search engine. SimplyHired, who just raised $13M from NewsCorp has over 2 million monthly uniques, which is a perfect traffic amount to make a sizable income from Google's AdWords. Can ...

It's heartening to know that money isn't everything when deals are on the table. Some interesting new discoveries have come out of the Google DoubleClick deal, and it seems as though Microsoft may have put more money on the table than Google did. John Battelle discovered that Microsoft did offer to match the $3.1 billion that Google paid for the company, and was willing to pay more to ensure that ...

Are you a digital photographer? Like to bring your camera wherever you go and snap like crazy? Why not enter the world of buying and selling your stock photos? Lucky Oliver is a community of photographers, designers and artists who all buy and sell stock photos. The images and illustrations in Lucky Oliver are high enough quality for both web and print work, and are pretty affordable and ...

There have been lots of rumors and buzz circulating the past few weeks on whether or not Google was pursuing Adscape, a startup -- only officially launched in February 2006 with $3.2 million in funding -- that specializes in in-game advertising. After a brief quiet period, details are starting to emerge about an agreement to acquire Adscape Media for $23 million. Could this be the next big thing ...

Flipped is a very unique idea. The site brings users new ways to shop online for all sorts of items. Users post what they want, and sellers bid your price down creating a buyoff, getting you a great deal for the item you want. Buyoffs do have a time limit, at which time the buyer can reject or accept any offer from any seller. Not only is Flippid a buying site, but sellers can also stop by, ...

MySpace is making the unsurprising move of launching its own online music store, which will enable artists to sell their music directly from their MySpace pages. The service will be powered by Snocap, the content licensing venture from Napster creator Shawn Fanning, and will allow recording artists to set their own prices, according to BusinessWeek. You can see the service in action at the ...