Online Marketing Buzz this week, latest updates

Latest buzz about SEO and internet marketing around the Globe:

Here is what is going on - online and offline as well in the arena of SEO / SEM / Internet and search marketing + promotion.
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Search experts from around the world will be come together in London on 19 Nov 2009 to discuss latest developments in internet marketing.

The link between internet marketing and social media such as Facebook has grown by 46 per cent in the last two years, new research.

Nimbuzz makes its WAP chat application available to Virgin Mobile customers in India.

TransMedia on Wednesday plans to tweak Twitter by introducing a new micro-blogging service called Glide Engage increasing 140 character limit.

Yahoo Delicious begins letting users tweet their bookmarks on Twitter, bringing social bookmarking service a real-time relevancy it lacked.

Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites.

EU (The European Union) says a third of Europeans never used Internet - Reuters

Ybrant Digital acquires ad network company Max Interactive - internet marketing news

Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Makes Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2009 Must-Attend Event for Search Engine Marketers

Google's Schmidt Resigns From Apple Board - Internet Marketing Business News
An attempt to avoid the conflict of common interest and business, as assumed.

Google Woos Business Users With Billboard Ad Campaign - for the first time the internet marketing giant ' Big G' is going for the traditional way of advertising via Billboards.

26% of Twitter users in US use it to find news and stay updated: Study

Newspaper by rural Indian women wins UN literacy award - Sify news

Yahoo CEO Salary worries shareholders

According to Mercury News,

At least two independent proxy advisory firms are urging Yahoo shareholders to protest Chief Executive Terry Semel's $71 million pay package with a symbolic vote against the re-election of three members of the board of directors who are responsible for executive pay.

Yahoo's annual shareholders meeting will be held Tuesday.

Last week, Institutional Shareholder Services noted that Semel is one of the highest-paid CEOs in America, despite a slowdown in Yahoo's revenue growth in 2006 and a 60 percent decline in net income compared with 2005. Yahoo's stock also fell 35 percent in 2006.

"It appears that CEO Semel is rewarded when times are good ... and when times are bad," ISS said. Separately, Proxy Governance said Semel's pay is more than 900 percent above the median paid to CEOs at peer companies like eBay or Electronic Arts.

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