Msnbc.com acquires Newsvine
First acquisition in 11-year history moves company in new direction — Newsvine.com pays users for their stories and displays articles based on user rankings. — REDMOND, Wash. - Msnbc.com is diving...
SAP agrees 4.8-billion-euro buyout of Business Objects
PARIS (AFP) - Germany's SAP, a world leader in business software, announced late Sunday that it had agreed with France's Business Objects on a buy-out worth just over 4.8 billion euros (6.8 billion do...
Breaking: Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC.com
Social news site Newsvine, which launched in March 2006, has been acquired by MSNBC.com, a fifty-fifty joint venture between Microsoft and NBC. This is MSNBC.com's first acquisition. — The deal, wh...
A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky
IF you know what you're looking for online, Google and other Internet search engines do a pretty good job of helping you find it. But what if you don't know exactly what you want? — Say you are a s...
Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Popular Video Game at Church
First the percussive sounds of sniper fire and the thrill of the kill. Then the gospel of peace. — Across the country, hundreds of ministers and pastors desperate to reach young congregants have dr...
From The Information Age To The Connected Age
Jason Calacanis launched yet another discussion of the future of the web with his official definition of web 3.0, in which web 2.0 cake is spread with a liberal frosting of people, but not just any pe...
Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google
More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links. However, Google's generally never penalized sites for link sell...
TorrentSpy Traffic Plunges After US Ban
TorrentSpy founder Justin told TorrentFreak in a response to the censorship: "Whatever future awaits, the innovations of peer-to-peer technology and the jobs and opportunities it creates will take pla...
OK, you're right, it IS a bubble
When I first started this blog four months ago, one of the first substantive posts I wrote was called "Bubbles on the brain". — In it, I attempted to use "logic" to explain the reasons we are most l...
California man seeks class action lawsuit over iPhone bricking, lock-in
A California resident on Friday filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple over its controversial policies regarding the service of modified iPhones. Filed by the Law Office of Damian R. Fernandez on...
Novell wants SCO's bankruptcy protection lifted, objects to "forced loans"
Last week Novell filed a motion requesting that the court lift SCO's bankruptcy stay so that Novell can obtain UNIX licensing royalties wrongfully retained by SCO. Novell has also filed a motion requ...
Sony announces PCM-D50 handheld flash recorder
I went to the AES show this afternoon with my mind almost made up. My next field recorder would be a Fostex FR2-LE. On paper it's the next step up from my Zoom H4. It has decent preamps, combo XLR/...
Mint Rakes It In
Since launching and winning the top spot at our TechCrunch40 conference three weeks ago, personal-finance startup Mint has been on a roll. On Friday, Mint was named Best of Show at the 2007 Financial...
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer - Episode 43
Shelly Palmer and Ray Beckerman, Esq., partner at Vandenberg & Feliu LLP, discuss the RIAA's judgment against a Native American woman for $222,000. Running Time 16:46 minutes (File Size: 15.5 MB)
Thoughts on Amazon's Internal Storage System (Dynamo)
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has a blog post entitled Amazon's Dynamo which contains the HTML version of an upcoming paper entitled Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store which describes a...
The Big News About Yahoo!
Much of the news about Yahoo! recently has involved missed earnings, missing executives and missed opportunities. But there is good news—the Internet company's news service itself. — Over the past ...