Top News - WebProNews Updated : PurchasePro Founder Gets 9 Years The founder and CEO of PurchasePro, Charles E. "Junior" Johnson has been sentenced to nine years in prison for stock fraud. The sentence was less that what federal prosecutors were seeking, who recommended Johnson spend 16 to 17 years in jail for defrauding investors in his now defunct software company in 2001. read more Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:55:07 -0500 Amazon Launches New Content Delivery Service Amazon Web Services has launched a new pay-as-you-go content delivery service, Amazon CloudFront aimed at making content delivery more efficient for developers and businesses. read more Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:42 -0500 What Google’s Matt Cutts Sees In 2009 WebProNews' Mike McDonald caught up with Matt Cutts of Google at the Hofbrau House in Las Vegas during PubCon to get his views on a number of topics.  Is Ranking Dead? read more Publ.Date : Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:00:00 -0500 Utilizing Match Types Can Save Your SEM Dollars Google's been offering some great AdWords tips lately. Specifically, they recently discussed the advantages of using the broad match option and the negative keyword option. Mike McDonald also spoke with Ken Jurina of Epiar about the negative keyword option in the following interview at PubCon. read more Publ.Date : Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:11:13 -0500 Mark Cuban Accused Of Insider Trading Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, and HDNet, has been accused of insider trading.  The SEC claims that, following a private conversation with the Mamma.com's CEO, Cuban sold his entire stake in the company and thereby avoided at least $750,000 in losses. read more Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:33:39 -0500 Google Finance Gets Text Ads Google has released details of its recent trials with new ads on some of its properties. Users in the U.S. may have noticed new text and image ads Google is experimenting with on the results page of its Image Search. Google has also introduced "Sponsored Videos" on YouTube that the company says is "a great example of matching ads to content." read more Publ.Date : Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:24:02 -0500 eHarmony Settles Lawsuit, Starts Gay Site eHarmony is releasing a new same-sex matching service starting by the end of March. This service is the product of legal problems the company has been dealing with out of New Jersey and California. A gay man in Jersey sued the company for not catering to same-sex relationships as a violation of his rights in the state of New Jersey, and earlier in the year, a gay woman from San Francisco filed a suit against the company for being denied access to eHarmony's service because of her sexuality. read more Publ.Date : Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:00:36 -0500 TypePad's Blogger Bailout For Laid-Off Journalists TypePad has introduced a "bailout" program for journalists who have been laid off or expect to be. read more Publ.Date : Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:30:04 -0500 Matt Cutts Defends Google Docs Google Docs has been the subject of some not-great press over the past week or so; a ClickStream study, in particular, suggested that the productivity offering has been ignored by a lot of people.  But Matt Cutts has stepped forward with some new statistics, and it seems that the market share of Google Docs may not be quite so slim, after all. read more Publ.Date : Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:54:05 -0500 Iran Blocks Millions Of Web Sites The Iranian government is currently blocking in excess of five million Web sites for hosting content that it deems as unethical and anti-Islamic. During a conference in Iran, the Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khoram Abadi said most of the sites were blocked because they "contained unethical content" such as pornography and anti-Islamic sentiment. read more Publ.Date : Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:07:53 -0500 Automated Blog and Ping Add RSS Feeds To My Web Pages

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