AOL's Tacoda To Terminate Inventory Contracts With Publishers; Clarizio: ‘Expanding, Not Shuttering’
AOL (NYSE: TWX) behavioral targeting unit Tacoda will terminate the existing inventory contracts with web publishers within 30 days, the company said in e-mail to clients last week.
Yahoo! Announces Results of 2008 Annual Stockholder Meeting
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that, at the Company's annual meeting of stockholders held earlier today, stockholders re-elected all of Yahoo!'s nominees...
End of the Blog
I have decided to end the blog, after doing around 800 postings over about 4 years. I regret closing the blog and I owe readers an explanation. There are two reasons. — 1. The Inability or Refusal...
AOL is Getting Serious About Lifestreaming: Buys SocialThing
SocialThing, a lifestreaming/social aggregation site, has been acquired by AOL. We currently have no information about the final price of the acquisition, but given that SocialThing was still in priv...
Yahoo Is Still Searching for, Well, Yahoo
JERRY YANG, the soft-spoken chief executive of Yahoo, rarely becomes animated, at least in public. But ask him about his company's lackluster performance over the past year, and he will begin to poun...
Don't Want to Talk? New Service Sells Missed Calls
When Alexis Gorman, 26, wanted to tell a man she had been dating that the courtship was over, she felt sending a Dear John text message was too impersonal. But she worried that if she called the man,...
Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon
Big Microsoft Study Supports Small World Theory — Turns out, it is a small world. — The so-called small world theory, embodied in the old saw that there are just “six degrees of separation” betwee...
How “Janet” Fooled the Twittersphere She's the Voice of Exxon Mobil
The game is up, “Janet” is not an official Exxon representative — A few days ago, the Twittersphere was curious, interested, and excited to see a member of Exxon Mobil's employee ranks to join the t...
Apple bails on Black Hat talk
Engineering blames marketing department — IDG News Service) Apple Inc. has pulled its security engineering team out of a planned public discussion on the company's security practices, which had been...
People Want To Pay
Yes, everything will be free, but in my experience people want to pay. They really do! People, mobs of them, will grab stuff that is free. They will try stuff for free that they would never touch i...
Advice: Microsoft Should Invest Y Combinator-style
Former Microsoft employee and current founder and CEO of web startup Blist Kevin Merritt has some advice for Microsoft: rather than throwing around billions to try to acquire Yahoo! or buying unproven...
FCC's Comcast Ruling Inconsistent and Incoherent
After voting on the Comcast order today, Kevin Martin and his Democratic Party colleagues issued press releases telling us how they saved the Internet from Comcast's discriminatory practices, but they...