Microsoft have placed a bidding for the Norwegian search company Fast. The amount is 6,6 billion NOK which is about 835 000 000 Euro! Their plan is to integrate Fast technology into Sharepoint server: They want to keep the research team and says it should be a great effort for
There will be a lot of activity around web and search in Sweden this autumn. Below I list all the conferences that are coming up and hope to see you on some of them! I will update list if I find out of more as we move along… September Webanalytics
As SEMPO is a fairly unknowned brand in the region it was not many that thought the SEMPO Scandinavian event was going to be as big as it turned out to be! The group managed to attract 120 people to the event where 4 search engines, Eniro, Yahoo, Microsoft and
So, finally we will see a Google maps section in Sweden! Great to see it launching but It will probably not be a big difference from the big Google map we have already seen apart from local content. The local search engines Eniro and hitta.se will now be facing competition
SEMPO’s overall efforts this year is to focus on three main objectives: launching and expanding a search marketing training program, expanding SEMPO’s global presence, and continuing to build on its industry-leading research. For SEMPO, global expansion starts with individual members forming a Working Group in a given country or region.
SMX just launched that they will do an event in Stockholm 30th of Oct and 1st of Nov. this will be right after the emetrics two day event, so I am sure people might be able to buy a ticket for all four days if they are really eager to
Johan Kinnander, Manager of the Swedish office for Google, has resigned after two years. (Very common for Googlers.. for some reason..? :-)) He says he needed to move on and is happy with the results he has achieved during his time with Google. Best of luck to him!
Eastpoint has bought MIG in Sweden and is now moving towards the US market with a new entity in Miami under their entity Getupdated. They will service the US market with the same services as the Swedish market: search marketing and banner advertising.
Workey hasn’t launched their services yet but its a fascinating technology that will enable the users to see all the work applications on the web on one site. It is voted as nb 3 of the most interesting innovations to be launched soon on the web, in the Internet World
Eniro has bought 48.1 % of Netclips who owns the video clip community bubblare.se.
They want to strengthen their position in the market and have a more vertical approach and of course the ability to compete with more videorelated content in the fields of search. With the recent new