We've officially acquired DoubleClick
I'm pleased to share the news that we completed our acquisition of DoubleClick today. Although it's been nearly a year since we announced our intention to acquire DoubleClick last April, we are no le...
How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring
New York Governor (for now) Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system-the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforce...
AOL “Disintegrating”; Also, Why Curt Viebranz Was Fired*
*UPDATE: AOL spokesperson Tricia Primrose strongly denies several assertions in this post. Specifically, she argues that AOL's business is strong and that Curt Viebranz's dismissal had nothing to do ...
20% Of Valley Startups Can't Get To Their Cash
The credit crisis is in full swing through most of the U.S. economy, but it has barely touched venture-fueled Silicon Valley. Until recently, that is. Up to 20% of venture backed startups may have b...
Guy Kawasaki Formally Launches Alltop. Wow, It's Bad.
Last year Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors on the cheap (he spent $13,000), which is at least pointing the right way on Compete.com. Today he follows up with a sequel, AllTop. It's a...well, it's a RS...
Sarah Lacy on Sarah Lacy and the SXSW Mark Zuckerberg Keynote
I spent time Sarah Lacy and we talked about Mark Zuckerberg and the SXSW keynote... I'm sure you heard about the infamous Mark Zuckerberg SXSW keynote hosted by well known author, Business Week colum...
U.S. In-flight Broadband Is A-gogo by Spring
If you're a frequent flier to New York from San Francisco or Los Angeles, or just like to jet down to Miami to get away from the bitter New York winter, then you're one of the lucky people who will ha...
What Does YouTube Have Up Its Sleeve? Guess Right, And Win An iPod Shuffle.
YouTube is making a big announcement tomorrow morning. Could it be live-streaming? (We're told not). High-definition video? A partnership with Hulu? (That would be so hot). A new Website design?
Six Apart Takes Aim At Wordpress Users; Wordpress Pissed
Anil Dash, Six Apart's Chief Evangelist, took aim at Wordpress users in a blog post today. Instead of upgrading to the new version of Wordpress, he says, consider moving over to their platform. — N...
Twine Disappoints After Semantic Web Hype
Twine is the most hyped semantic app of the season and recently opened up for some press previews. General availability of this smart, social bookmarking and research tool may come in a matter of wee...
iPhone SDK Bug Filing
The iPhone SDK announcement has come and gone and reality is beginning to set in. The SDK provides opportunity for lots of great new applications on the iPhone. However, there are also a great many ...
Bringing OpenID To The Masses: Clickpass
OpenID, a way to sign on to multiple web sites with a single set of credentials, has incredible promise. Large companies have signed up. Thousands of website take OpenID sign-ins. All is good, righ...
Mergers: Commission clears proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google
Mergers: Commission clears proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google … Google operates an Internet search engine that offers search capabilities for end users free of charge and provides online ad...
Searchme: A New Visual Search Engine
[Updated with correct funding of $31 million and note that Google has a similar effort in its labs.] — Today, Sequoia Capital, which has been a key investor of search giant Google (GOOG), as well as...
Testing Over, Hulu.com to Open Its TV and Film Offerings This Week
SAN FRANCISCO — Hulu.com, the long-gestating Internet joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox, emerges from limited testing on Wednesday to make its catalog of TV shows and video clips available t...
A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide
As you might know, WordPress 2.5 is about to be released, and we wanted to encourage WordPress users to upgrade. To Movable Type. — The truth is, there are lots of good blogging tools out there, an...
Hostility Has Its Rewards
MENLO PARK, Calif. — “It's crazy to say you will only grow through innovation,” Larry Ellison, the hard-charging chief executive of Oracle, was telling me last week. “It's bizarre that there's a stig...
Google's drop in paid clicks: Part of the grand plan
After ComScore reported a recent decline in Google's paid clicks, the Net ratings service followed up, noting evidence that the drop was due to “Google's own quality initiatives that result in a reduc...
MacPro, Mac Book Air get software updates
While we slept last night, Apple released two updates for two of their less common hardware offerings: the MacBook Air and select Mac Pros. They aren't terribly exciting and, as always, the descripti...
Firefox 3 Beta 4 Release Notes
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is a developer preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only. — These beta releases are targeted to Web develope...
CBSSports.com Opens March Madness On Demand Video For Easy Access From Any Site
Seeking more online viewers for games and ads, CBSSports.com and the NCAA are announcing a “developer platform” for March Madness on Demand. It's not the kind of developer concept where people are en...
The “Nuclear Disaster” At SXSW Was Nothing More Than A Witch Burning
Based on the Twitter messages and blog posts I saw yesterday emerge real time from the SXSW conference, it sounded like Sarah Lacy's interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was, truly, a career endi...
Microsoft admits big delay on Home Server bug fix
Alert! Data corruption causes domestics — Microsoft has admitted that it will not deliver a fix to a Windows Home Server 2008 data corruption bug it first discovered late last year until June at th...
Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 and Digital Media Keyboard 3000, WOW!
Microsoft continues to step up their design game with two keyboards to follow last month's good-looking mice. The Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 bundle includes a 2.4GHz wireless keyboard and the previo...
Murdoch won't battle Microsoft for Yahoo
One of Yahoo's potential white knights in its struggle to avoid being taken over by Microsoft just put his charger back in the stable. — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch told a Bear Stearns confer...