Myspace - the next Prodigy?
Over the last year, there's been a tremendous amount of focus on the "Widget economy". Newsweek has even dubbed 2007 as the "Year of the Widget." While the concept of a "widget" might seem trivial t...
Dotcom stars have designs on your home
THE founders of Lastminute. com, Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox, have teamed up again to form a new business. — Hoberman has already spent several months recruiting a team for Mydeco.com, which ...
Online poker goes mobile as Bwin signs up phone operators
The online poker craze is set to go mobile with network operators T-Mobile and 3 offering British customers access to Bwin's multi-player application PokerRoom.com. — Since it was launched in 2005, ...
E-Commerce Report: Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One
THINK you have a good handle on the Internet economy? Try this one. — What Internet business has raised $120 million in financing in the last year, owns 725,000 Web sites, and has as its chief exec...
Desktop Tower of Money: 3 tips to profit from casual games
So here's a couple ways to a create successful game online: a), Find an investor who's crazy enough to give you millions of dollars, or b), Put it on a distribution network and hope you get enough cus...
All Google, All the Time (Yikes!)
Over the past few years, I've adopted a non-Microsoft policy. Instead of IE, I use Firefox; instead of Outlook, I use Thunderbird; instead of Vista/XP, I use Mac; instead of Hotmail, I use GMail. Th...
Pirates still have all the best tunes
File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI? — On a blazing hot day in California five years ago, the boss of Yahoo, Te...
Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny
The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed o...