At least 20,000 without power in downtown S.F.
(07-24) 15:12 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — At least 20,000 customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in downtown San Francisco lost power this afternoon, the utility said. — Brian Swanson, a spokesman for th...
AOL HAS AN EYE ON YOU
TO BUY AD TARGETER — After acquiring its way into the video and mobile ad-serving marketplace, CEO Randy Falco is moving AOL into the behavorial-targeting ad market with a deal to purchase Tacoda, T...
Google joins hands with Band of Angels
Google Inc, the $-10 billion Internet major, is set to lead the angel investing scenario in India. — The company, which has been acquiring mature companies across the world, is doing something diffe...
Nokia acquires Twango to offer a comprehensive media sharing experience
Share photos, video and other media through virtually any connected device — Nokia and Twango today announced that Nokia has acquired substantially all assets of Twango (www.twango.com).
There UGO
On Tuesday morning, Hearst Corp. was expected to announce the acquisition of UGO Networks, a collection of Web sites targeting young men interested in video games, sports and pictures of hot girls. U...
TiVo Targets the Mainstream
The DVR pioneer hopes to gain customers with its price-slashed TiVo HD, but subscription costs and shrinking market share remain concerns — Can a low-cost, high-definition digital video recorder cle...
Is Xbox 360 is doomed
We're still a few months from holiday shopping season, but I'm making this prediction now: The Xbox 360 is this year's PS3. Last year, of course, was when Sony's over-priced, under-delivered next gen...
Developers on Unreal Engine 3 and the Silicon Knights Lawsuit
Last week the internet—or at least the video game-related parts of it—exploded when Epic Games quietly announced that it had been sued by developer Silicon Knights. That quiet announcement quickly tu...
Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google
I got to enjoy Matt Cutts live and in person on Saturday speaking to the WordPress bloggers and fans at WordCamp 2007. Matt was in top form, witty as ever. The session was blogged by numerous folks.
Surprise: Facebook apps may help grow home sites
Slide, Rockyou and HotorNot, three companies with the largest number of users on Facebook, are showing continued traffic growth on their own sites. — The finding, reported by Quantcast, a service th...
Earnings: AT&T Q2 Profits Grow 61 Percent; Revs Up 86.7 Percent
Citing growth in wireless and internet subscribers, as well as sales of the iPhone, helped AT&T (NYSE: T) hit its ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit earnings growth, as Q2 profit rose 61.1 perc...
Is Radio Bad For Music? Not Really, But The RIAA Will Say So
Remember a few months back when the RIAA started asking the government to get radio stations to pay up for promoting their music? This seemed pretty ludicrous (especially when you add in the fact tha...
Credibility called into question
Will SunRocket's failure jeopardize Net phone firms? — Internet telephone provider SunRocket's sudden closure last week not only surprised and disappointed subscribers, it also cast a shadow on the ...