Ouch! HBO's Vampire Show Bites Business Blog.
Here's a scoop from Silicon Alley Insider, published Saturday morning: “Gawker Media announced last night that it acquired BloodCopy.com. It's a blog about vampires. Really.” — No, not really. — ...
Facebook Announces Settlement of Legal Dispute with Another Former Zuckerberg Classmate
Facebook has just issued a Friday night press release announcing the settling of a trademark dispute with Think Computer Corporation, whose founder Aaron Greenspan created the houseSYSTEM student web ...
New Puzzles That Tell Humans From Machines
ROGUE programs try their best to register at Web sites and then wreak havoc, but a clever puzzle often bars them from entry: a set of distorted, squiggly letters and numbers that people can decipher a...
AMD says Intel-only deal struck at Apple in 2005
An Advanced Micro Devices executive claims that Intel and Apple cut a deal in 2005 that made Intel an exclusive supplier of processors to Apple, preventing AMD from gaining Apple business. — The cla...
ISP is back with some Pre goodies! Battery Life, Service Plans, Accessories.
We haven't heard from the crew at InsideSprintNow for a quite a while now, but they're back, and with some Pre goodness to share. They didn't say much this time around about the Pre, instead …
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
In the midst of financial apocalypse, the gadflies and gurus of the global marketplace are gathered at the San Francisco Hilton for the annual meeting of the American Economics Association. The mood ...
Pro-internet piracy party on course for EU seats
The Pirate Party, a single-issue Swedish group that campaigns to encourage internet copyright infringement, is on course to win several seats in the European parliament. — The pro-file-sharing party...
Copyright Meets a New Worthy Foe: The Real-Time Web
Copyright law wasn't written with today's content consumption in mind. The way online video copyright functions is based on a reading of the 10-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act that equates ...
Should Facebook ‘Just Buy Yelp’?
Matt Greitzer of Avenue A pens a provocative column (How to Solve Local Search, Once And For All) in which he argues that Facebook should buy Yelp: … There's also this related piece from AdWeek on use...
Official: NC considers Apple for massive tax break
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers are pushing to give Apple Inc. a multi-million dollar tax break should the company bring an East Coast computer server farm to the state — an estimated $1...