Yahoo Merges Ad Sales Units; Wenda Harris Millard Leaves To Join MSLO
Yahoo's chief sales officer Wenda Harris Millard is leaving the company. paidContent.org has learned that she is joining Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) as the [Chief Media Officer] President, ...
LinkedIn to open up to developers
I talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference about Facebook's rapid growth and potential incursion into his territory. He told me that over next 9...
A Spurned Parody of 'Die Hard' Returns to YouTube, Approved
The story seems familiar to online video users: fans create a parody video using pirated studio content and post it on YouTube, and the studio's lawyers quickly have it removed for violating copyright...
Free VoIP For Your Windows Mobile Smartphone
Fring, the free mobile VoIP service that works just like Skype, is now available for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 smartphones. Get ready for some free mobile phone calls. — Here is a look ...
VC Perspectives on the Facebook Platform: Andrew Chen, MDV EIR
Our Sand Hill interview series continues this week with Andrew Chen, Entrepreneur in Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. (Last week I spoke with Jeremy Liew, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, t...
Hollywood Seeks Ways to Fit Its Content Into the Realm of the iPhone
The iPhone doesn't go on sale until Friday, but Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, is already changing the perception of the mobile phone, from a quick way to call a friend to a hip, media-...
Revision3 Raises $8 million From Greylock
Online video site Revision3 has raised an $8 million second round of financing, according to a source close to the deal, bringing the total capital raised to $9 million. Our understanding is that Gre...
A Follow Up
Well, we certainly stepped in it, judging by the "blogstorm" over Nick's post this past Friday. Over the past 24 hours scores of highly respected voices have chimed in on Microsoft's campaign, and I ...
Lower prices ahead for Wi-Fi access?
MILAN: With the proliferation of Wi-Fi hotspots, it has become possible to open a laptop and connect to the Internet in just about any major airport as well as thousands of hotels, restaurants, cafes ...
New details about the iPhone
Remember the winning Engadget commercial, "The Long Arm of Steve Jobs"? We posted it after the break, but finding someone who's spent some serious time with a pre-launch iPhone and getting them to ta...
Defamation lawsuit seeks to unmask anonymous cowards
Server logs? what server logs? — They should've known better than to flame law students. — Two female law students at Yale University have filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Connecticu...
Xbox Live tries ads with McDonald's, New Line partnership
Free sponsored content aimed at attracting new download customers — Microsoft Xbox Live is partnering with McDonald's and New Line Home Entertainment to offer its first advertiser-sponsored movie, w...
When Computers Attack
ANYONE who follows technology or military affairs has heard the predictions for more than a decade. Cyberwar is coming. Although the long-announced, long-awaited computer-based conflict has yet to o...
What will Facebook look like in 40 years?
At the moment the generational difference means that the vast majority of users on sites like Facebook are the younger generation. But the other day, it crossed my mind that in the future, 40 or so y...
Real Evil: ISP Inserted Advertising
Texas based ISP Redmoon has implemented software that hijacks pages being visited by their customers by placing Redmoon's own ads on these pages. — The technology is provided by NebuAD, which boasts...