Hi everyone, Judy Chang with PayPal Nonprofits reporting live from SXSWi in Austin, TX!  This morning, to kick off the show, PayPal and Foursquare launched "Check-In For Charity," an innovative fundraising campaign benefitting  Save the Children's continuing work in Haiti.   Whenever anyone "checks-in" to one of the designated locations around .

The Hitwise report for search volume for Febuary shows Bing gaining ,2 percent market share (11.5) while Yahoo (16.8) dropped the equivalent amount. Google gained 0.1 percent that same amount Ask dropped.

Glass-half-full and glass-half-empty types, prepare to be split. New stats from Nielsen indicate that February of 2010 was a great month for the online video industry compared to February of 2009. Last month was a little bit rotten compared to January of 2010, however. The chart below shows how the big-picture data categories played out. "Unique Viewers" and "Total Streams" made the most progress year-over-year,

Its TV Portal is one of Yahoo's strongest verticals. I personally check it out to get my fix of entertainment news from time to time. So, it is but logical for Yahoo to try to maximize the potential of Yahoo TV to generate site traffic and engagement to its site. Enter the Yahoo TV Shortcuts right smack into your entertainment-related search results pages. So when you search for an entertainment-related topic on Yahoo Search,

Seems the Italian government is not finished investigating Google. Last month three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations and received suspended six-month jail sentences over a video showing a teenaged boy being bullied. Antitrust investigations over Google's impact of the newspaper industry were started in Italy last year, but this is the first announcement of the government's examination of Adsense.

Or while waiting for panels at SXSW - if you can get a signal. Click to read the rest of this post.

Credit Card debt had a large impact on the breakdown of the economy and causing many Americans into bankruptcy. Because of this, major reform hit credit card in February passed down from the government. Most consumers see this as change for the better, while banks and lenders are expecting huge financial losses due the impact from these changes. 2010 will be a rocky period for credit cards,

Austin, Texas - which already plays home to tech companies Freescale Semiconductor and Dell - will soon boast a Facebook office, too. A $1.4 million incentive package we reported on in late February has been approved, and Facebook's decided to establish a team in Austin as a result. Grady Burnett, Director of Global Online Sales and Operations at Facebook, said in a statement,

It's nicer, but not yet as comprehensive, as FriendFeed. Click to read the rest of this post.

I've been out talking to journalists and bloggers about SES New York 2010 , which gets underway the week of March 22nd. One of the questions that I'm frequently asked is: "What will be the top stories at the event?" Click to read the rest of this post.