Business.com Sold To RH Donnelley; Beating DJ, NYT and News Corp; Price $345 Million
Updated: The official release is out, and the final price is $345 million. Business.com CEO Jake Winebaum will be appointed as President of RHD's interactive unit (RHDi), which will now include DexKn...
Taking a bite out of the big apple
First, Twitter was a fun side project, then it was cared for lovingly at Obvious until it was time to form Twitter, Inc. Today, we're excited to announce an important moment for Twitter. We've raised...
Apple F3Q07 (Qtr End 6/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Executives — Analysts — Presentation — Operator — Welcome to the Apple third quarter 2007 quarterly results conference call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time for opening remarks ...
MySpace Looking for the Next "Prom Queen"
MySpace had a great deal of success with their short form webisode, "Prom Queen". The heavily hyped ode to teenage drama drew over 15 million streams during its run and is gearing up for another seas...
Target to Promote Blu-Ray DVD Format
LOS ANGELES - — Target Corp., the nation's second-largest retailer, will start selling a Sony Blu-ray high-definition DVD player during the critical holiday shopping period and feature the player al...
Email Call to Action
Do you think email is important part of Internet life? Are you interested in seeing something interesting and exciting happen in the mail space? Believe that Thunderbird provides a much-needed optio...
Wagering In Second Life: New Policy
[UPDATE: Wednesday, July 25 4:47PM PDT] For those of you who find logging into the Knowledge Base to be sort of kludgy (and I know it is — we'll find a better way!), I've pasted the text of the policy...
Humans narrowly beat computer in poker battle
Two professional poker players narrowly beat a computer late Tuesday after four tense rounds that scientists called the world's first man-versus-machine poker championship. — Phil Laak and Ali Eslam...
Home cells signal mobile change
Standing in the corner of the room; being exiled to the bottom of the garden; or teetering precariously on a chair. — People will go to extraordinary lengths to find that elusive one bar of signal t...
Veoh names ex-Yahoo exec as CEO
Steve Mitgang led a project to better match advertisers with users. — Online video company Veoh Networks Inc. said Wednesday that it had hired former Yahoo Inc. advertising executive Steve Mitgang a...
Microsoft Offers a Web-Based Strategy
Microsoft executives said Thursday that they intend to respond to the growing threat to its software posed by new rivals like Google that offer Web-based versions of its applications. — The executiv...
Sprint, Google in pact for WiMax mobile Web
Sprint Nextel said on Thursday it would develop with Google a new mobile Internet portal using WiMax wireless technology to offer Web search and social networking. — Sprint's WiMax for high-speed wi...
Washington Post's survival fight
Newspapers are dying. At the Washington Post Co., CEO Donald Graham is banking on the Internet to save serious journalism. If he can't figure this out, nobody can. Fortune's Marc Gunther reports. ...
Comcast Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Highest level of second quarter RGU additions in Comcast history RGU additions up 94% to 1.6 million — Surpassed 3 million Comcast Digital Voice customers as the Triple Play powers record quarterly ...
The Teqlo Adventure
Few VCs admit to their misfires, though misses are more common in this business than hits. One of the reasons I write this blog is to add some transparency to an all too opaque business of private eq...
The Mobile TV Wars
Qualcomm's MediaFlo and MobiTV are set to duke it out in the battle for this emerging business — The mobile TV shakeout has begun: Modeo, a subsidiary of cellular tower operator Crown Castle Interna...