INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES SURPASS $4 BILLION FOR Q3
Latest IAB/PwC Survey Finds 2006 Record Industry Growth and Largest Quarter Ever — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP today announced that Internet advertising r...
'Second Life' faces threat to its virtual economy
Groups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy. — The controversy...
Memo: Valleywag Gets Down to Business
Gawker Media, the collection of gossipy blogs that includes the New York-based, media-centric Gawker and its Los Angeles-based sibling Defamer, relies on the online public's thirst for cattiness. But...
Google Adds Public Event Search
Google has added public event search within its Google Calendar, a nice little piece of integration that overlaps with what a lot of startups are doing. — The event aggregation space has recently be...
Physics promises wire-less power
The tangle of cables and plugs needed to recharge today's electronic gadgets could soon be a thing of the past. — US researchers have outlined a relatively simple system that could deliver power to ...
Taiwan's Hon Hai wins Apple orders for mobile handsets, notebook PCs - report
TAIPEI (XFN-ASIA) - Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (2317.TW) has secured contracts from Apple Computer for 12 mln mobile handsets that also function as music players, the Commercial Times quoted in...
Huh? YouTube Sends TechCrunch A Cease & Desist
Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We've been accused of a number of things: vi...
NBC Official Is Expected to Join AOL
Randy Falco, the president of the NBC Universal Television Group, is in talks to leave his position as the No. 2 executive at the television group to take a senior operating role at AOL, Time Warner's...
Ten Spammers Create 80 Percent Of Spam
Email users in North America and Europe who find themselves plagued with the incessant bombardment of spam can blame ten spammers singled out by junk mail fighter Spamhaus for the unwanted messages. ...
AIM Gets A Major Makeover
AOL will on Wednesday make available AIM 6.0, bringing the largest instant messaging client up to speed with the rest of the web. It's been a long time coming; version 5.0 of the client was released ...
Low-profile HTC is a powerhouse
HTC may be the most successful cellphone company you've never heard of. — Like Motorola and Nokia, the Taiwanese company designs, builds and sells wireless devices to carriers around the world. But...
Qihoo raises $20M for new Web 2.0 search engine
Qihoo, a fast-growing but controversial Chinese search engine for Web 2.0 content, has raised $25 million more in a second round of venture capital from credible U.S investors. — This is significant...
Zune moving at slow tempo
SAN FRANCISCO—Though Microsoft's answer to Apple Computer's iPod juggernaut officially went on sale nationwide Tuesday, the Zune wasn't exactly flying off the shelves in downtown San Francisco. — At...
Happy Halo Day
Happy Halo Day! — Today marks the five-year anniversary of Halo and to commemorate this occasion, Microsoft just revealed a few tantalizing announcements for fans of the franchise. You may have alr...
Wireless Internet's new target: Seattle homes
At Seattle's 1962 World's Fair, the Space Needle stood as a symbol for what the future would bring. — Today, the landmark is signifying something no one would have ever imagined 44 years ago. — Cl...
Zuned Out
Last night when I came home, Roy, doorman of our building, handed me a big brown box. It was from Microsoft, and my best guess was that it was the new Zune device. One of the last media folks to get...
Google holds back stock in YouTube deal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. has set aside more than $200 million in its just-completed takeover of YouTube Inc. as a financial cushion to cover losses or possible legal bills for the frequent cop...
BLOGWORLD SET FOR LAS VEGAS, NOV. 8-9, 2007
Industry's first-ever trade show and conference will blend corporate and individual interests in this prolific form of new media communications. — Blogging, the increasingly popular form of online c...
Use of CopyBot and Similar Tools a ToS Violation
Second Life needs features to provide more information about assets and the results of copying them. Unfortunately, these are not yet in place. Until they are, the use of CopyBot or any other extern...
Quintura Search Engine gets backing from early Skype investor
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. — Russia-based Quintura Search Engine has received substantial backing from Mangrove Capital Partners of Luxembourg, an early-stage investor in...
Slide gets big VC round for its slideshow product
Slide, the San Francisco start-up that lets you create slide shows from your photos or other content, has raised a large third round of funding from Khosla Ventures and Mayfield Fund. — The amount r...
Report Murdoch Says MySpace Worth $6 Billion; Sees 200 Million Users By Mid-2007
Speaking with investors at a meeting in Sydney, Australia, yesterday, News Corp.'s (NWS) Rupert Murdoch reportedly said that the company's MySpace unit could now be sold for $6 billion, or about 10x …
OLPC nears low-cost Linux laptop production
The One Laptop Per Child project's onsite supervisor, Mark Foster, reported from Shanghai on Sunday that the first 10 prototypes of the Linux-powered OLPC XO-1 are up and running. This marks a key mi...
Confirmed: Microsoft To Reward Zune Song Sharing
When we last left off, the consensus was that Microsoft was still planning on rewarding song sharing with the Zune. Now we've got pretty much confirmation—unofficial, that is—that Microsoft is planni...
Microsoft Goes MuniFi with MetroFi
In the fight to unwire cities, Google might be one of the bigger names in the business, especially when it comes to the potential for location-based advertising. But Mountain View-based startup Metro...
Q&A: Microsoft Moving Forward on Key Server Technologies
At Tech •Ed: IT Forum 2006, Microsoft continues to show progress in development of Windows Server "Longhorn" and Windows Server virtualization, and announces availability of Windows PowerShell and th...