Riya's Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search
Silicon Valley startup Riya, currently a photo search company focusing on facial recognition, is making a significant strategic and product shift this morning. Riya will continue as is, but the compa...
How do I get my company profiled on TechCrunch? Mike Arrington chats with Guy Kawasaki
Click To Play — How do I get Mike Arrington to profile my company on TechCrunch? How do I get his attention in the first place? — The answers to these questions and more were explored …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: We would never trap user data
John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly kicked off the industry heavyweight portion of the Web 2.0 Summit with a few remarks about Web 2.0 and the theme of the event, disruption and opportunity. — "Web 2.0 i...
Old Media and New Media: Friends, Not Foes
Search and advertising services from Google and Yahoo! are helping traditional media companies extend their content online and generate revenue — If content is king, then its queen is making money. ...
Skype 3.0: Transfer or no?
The jungle drums are beatin'... softly softly... but they're beatin'. — See, rumour has it that tomorrow at 8 AM EDT, the much anticipated Skype 3.0 will be released into beta. Wonder what's in it?...
'Enemies of the internet' named
A list of 13 "enemies of the internet" has been released by human rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF). — For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while Nepal, Libya and the Mald...
Lawsuit against Palm makes patent-infringement claims
Patent holder NTP has sued Palm, maker of the Treo e-mail phone, for infringement eight months after winning $612.5 million from BlackBerry creator Research In Motion (RIM) on a similar claim. — The...
Hacking the Web 2.0 Conference
There's an interesting little detail that's not readily apparent about the Web 2.0 Conference — I mean the Web 2.0 Summit! I keep forgetting that it's a Summit! — Even though the conference is fair...
what i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens
When i was a child, i used to get super excited when the postman came. Although i almost never got anything, those handful of letters from penpals were such joyous gifts. Email was the same at first...
Google positioning for move into U.S. radio
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Web search leader Google is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry. — Google spokesman ...
FTC: Policing online ads is 'daunting task'
WASHINGTON—As ads and marketing messages spread to a growing number of devices and with increased personalization, challenges lie ahead for authorities charged with policing deceptive schemes, a Feder...