Cables Shine Light Into Secret Diplomatic Channels
WASHINGTON — A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the...
For DecorMyEyes, Bad Publicity Is a Good Thing
SHOPPING online in late July, Clarabelle Rodriguez typed the name of her favorite eyeglass brand into Google's search bar. — In moments, she found the perfect frames — made by a French company calle...
Google's “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story
The New York Times has a great, detailed story out today about a merchant with an unusual marketing strategy: be mean to customers. Any publicity, even negative publicity, means a win with Google's r...
Is Facebook Preparing to Launch Video Chatting In a Partnership with Skype?
While working on the Green Any Site facebook application, and digging around facebook, I noticed a curious little object in their code which wasn't there a few days ago. — The object, which is simpl...
Comcast internet down across parts of the eastern seaboard, fix on the way
Twitter's abuzz with angry Comcast customers tonight, as internet service is down in Boston and parts of the eastern United States, a situation the company's since confirmed at its official Twitter ac...
Black Friday Boasts $648 Million in U.S. Online Holiday Spending, Up 9 Percent vs. Year Ago
Thanksgiving Day Surges 28 Percent to $407 Million as Consumers Increasingly Use Day for Online Shopping — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
Now a Giant, Google Works to Retain Nimble Minds
When a product manager at Google told his bosses this year that he was quitting to take a job at Facebook, they offered him a large raise. When he said it was not about the money, they told him he co...
George W. Bush to answer live questions from Facebook HQ tomorrow
Former US president George W. Bush will be live from Facebook headquarters tomorrow answering questions about his new book “Decision Points”. — Facebook announced the news this afternoon and after j...
Amid economic doldrums, Apple has a spectacular year
As 2010 draws to a close, much of the tech world is struggling to regain its footing after a difficult recession. Then there's Apple. — Never before has this venerable company, which at age 34 is a...
When businesses attack...their customers
Get Satisfaction is better known these days for providing a platform for companies to “love their customers,” but at times it's also a channel for consumers to make their voices heard to companies tha...