Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed
It no longer is about Data Portability or Social Graph Portability, if you will. — I'm hearing these rumors too that John Furrier (my ex-boss) is reporting. That Microsoft will buy Yahoo's search a...
AOL-Bebo: $850M Deal Closes; AOL Combines Bebo, AIM, ICQ Into People Networks Headed By Shields
It's official—AOL (NYSE: TWX) now owns Bebo, closing the $850 million acquisition roughly two months after making it public. The social media network will not stand on its own; instead …
Apple Wants More Mobile Music From Labels
As part of Apple's efforts to improve on the shortcomings of its popular iPhone, the company has approached some of the major music labels to try to expand the variety of ringtones and other musical f...
Opening our content network to third parties
Today, we're announcing that Google is accepting third-party advertising tags on the Google content network in North America. This will empower advertisers to work with approved third parties to serv...
Facebook CEO wants to talk with Google on Friend Connect
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to sit down with Google and work out the privacy issues that caused Facebook to block Google's Friend Connect last week, he said Monday. — “We want to talk to Goog...
Will Gmail Get Themes?
A source is telling me that Gmail will get themes - custom layouts to personalize Google's web mail client. According to the source, the launch of this may happen within the next months. There will ...
Blogging 2.0 Causing Friction With 1.0 Bloggers
Duncan Riley is on a roll. After a multitude of posts from around the Web this weekend once again debating whether comments away from the blog were a good thing, or if new Web services like Twitter a...
Mobile software Monday: Opera Mobile 9.5
One of the primary functions I perform on my mobile devices is web browsing, but until now there have always been limitations with these browsers. The iPhone had the best current browser for strictly...
Wii Gets Fitness
Like a late-night infomercial, Wii Fit sells itself as an all-in-one home fitness solution that will get the whole family exercising on a regular basis, no matter how lazy. With a menu of yoga, aerob...
Best Buy: FCC has no power to fine us over analog TVs
The nation's biggest electronics retailer has told the Federal Communications Commission that the agency lacks the authority to punish Best Buy for screwing up its digital transition TV selling rules.
Dell deepens executive bench
Dell (DELL) named former GE Plastics chief Brian Gladden as its new CFO replacing Don Carty. — The move makes Gladden the No.2 executive under CEO and founder Michael Dell and a likely successor to ...
Joost: New hires, lots of video, still no Web-based version
Some critics declared video service Joost kaput when big-network rival Hulu debuted last spring, far exceeding expectations. — But Joost, founded by the team behind Skype and Kazaa, wants you to kno...
Why I called Mozilla's change to the Firefox install process “sneaky”
Seems like some of you objected to my use of the term “sneaky” to describe the change made to the install routine of Firefox 3.0 RC1, while others thought I was being too easy on Mozilla. — Two emai...