Is Amazon Entering the Display Ad Business?
Amazon already offers display advertising opportunities on its own website. But the company may be preparing to be a much bigger force across the web as it looks to become a major player in the onlin...
Facebook's Open Compute Project
Facebook just released Open Compute Project, their now-public datacenter and server design, optimized for situations in which hundreds or thousands of servers are needed such as the biggest websites a...
Israeli parody details the rise and fall of Apple's iBoy, humanity as a whole (video)
For those unaware, Eretz Nehederet is effectively the Israeli equivalent to The Onion, and on the 1st of April, they covered the hardest-hitting piece of Apple news to cross their news desk in quite s...
Apple poaches top UK games PR from Nintendo, Activision
Apple is apparently making a serious play on the UK games PR space by hiring top men from both Nintendo and Activision. — MCV reckons Nintendo UK PR head Rob Saunders, who announced his departure af...
Larry Page's first blunder
The Google founder is now CEO, and already he's taken a wrong turn on social networking — Computerworld - Eric Schmidt is out at Google. Larry Page is in. I miss Eric already. — Page, who starte...
SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism
This is significant. While talk doesn't necessarily lead to action, a significant shift in capitalism could be coming. — On Wednesday US SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro sent a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa...
Ad.ly Versus Facebook: Something Doesn't Add Up
Earlier this week we heard whispers that Facebook was clamping down on Ad.ly and Crowdrally — two services that let users post sponsored updates to their Facebook Pages. This is important, because th...
‘Anonymous’ Plans Sony Boycott on April 16
Say you're a hacker trying to cripple a major electronics company for suing its own users: how do you launch a cyberattack without harming the people you're trying to protect? — In the case of hacti...