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The Worst Malware Ever (and What It Teaches Us About Malware of the Future)

The Realtime Report

In 2003, experts estimated that the worm caused between $950 and $1.2 Unlike the major malware that came before, Operation Aurora was a targeted malware attack in 2009 on tech giants including Google, Adobe and Yahoo. billion in damage, globally. Operation Aurora.

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The Worst Malware Ever (and What It Teaches Us About Malware of the Future)

The Realtime Report

In 2003, experts estimated that the worm caused between $950 and $1.2 Unlike the major malware that came before, Operation Aurora was a targeted malware attack in 2009 on tech giants including Google, Adobe and Yahoo. billion in damage, globally. Operation Aurora.

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Domain Names, Developed Domains, and Expired Domains

Bill Hartzer

So, before 2003 or so, if you had your main keyword in your domain name and your site was about that subject, then you had a good chance of ranking well in the search engines for that main keyword. Nowadays, after 2003, having your keyword in the domain name really started to not be as significant. This search at Yahoo!

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A Pinteresting Story

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Delicious was created by Joshua Schacter in 2003 as the notion of tagging (or labeling) content to make it findable by others begun to take hold. Delicious got acquired by Yahoo in 2005 and became the defacto destination to share one's bookmarks online. business column. chad hurley. conversation. digital object. engagement. smartphone.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The launch of Geocities by Yahoo marked for some the beginning of a new revolution in the online media called social networking. Launched in 2003, MySpace concentrated on the music niche. This is a guest post by Babu M. The Case Study of a Full Life Cycle. I think most of us agree that MySpace is dead.

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Search + Social = Online Reputation

Socialmedia.biz

I have been doing online reputation management (ORM) for clients since 2003. What of Bing and Yahoo!? Well, if you can make Google dance then Bing and Yahoo! Generally-speaking, the richer the mogul, the more élite the individual, the more likely they’ve tried to keep off Google’s radar, keep out of the index.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

The two companies were created six months apart; Myspace was founded in August 2003 and by July 2005 was bought by News Corp for 580 million dollars. In 2006, Facebook turned down two large offers, the first from Viacom for 750 million dollars and the second from Yahoo at one billion dollars. Facebook has never been boring.

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