First Credible Reports Of Bin Laden's Death Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter
@keithurbahn — So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn. — about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite — According to the Twitter-sphere...
Sony Finds No Apparent Anonymous Link to PlayStation Attack
Sony said it has found no link between an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and Internet activist group Anonymous, which had earlier targeted its systems. — The online gaming a...
Facebook Numbers Feed IPO Outlook
Facebook Inc.'s business is growing faster than it forecast several months ago, raising the stakes for an initial public offering as early as spring of next year, said people who have seen Facebook's ...
Time Inc. in iPad Deal With Apple
Time Inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, has reached a deal with Apple Inc. to make all its iPad editions free for print subscribers, marking a break in the impasse between publishers and ...
Shuttleworth: Ubuntu's New ‘Unity’ Puts Users First
Hardly a day goes by in the tech industry without some software package or other getting updated, but the widely celebrated release of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” this week has been no ordinary miles...
News Corp.'s IGN Buys Hearst's UGO In Preparation For Game Site Spin-Off
News Corp., which is getting ready to part with MySpace, is now prepping a move for another one of its big Web properties. — The media conglomerate plans to spin out its IGN.com dudes-and-games site...
Yes, There's An Apple “Castle” In The Cloud
Yesterday, French site Consomac.fr did some digging into the latest developer preview build of OS X Lion and found something interesting. Buried in the code are references to a service named called “...
Sony Details PlayStation Network Revival, ‘Welcome Back’ Gift
Sony will turn on most features of the PlayStation Network within a week and offer its customers a selection of free downloads, it said early Sunday morning. — The PlayStation maker's online service...
The Future of Advertising will be Integrated
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. — Banner Ads. They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. They were very effective back then, with the original ad...
Wikileaks on New Zealand Copyright: US Funds IP Enforcement, Offers to Draft Legislation
This week I published multiple posts Wikileaks cables revelations on the U.S. lobbying pressure on Canadian copyright including attempts to embarrass Canada, joint efforts with lobby groups such as CR...
Village Voice Admits To Spamming Reddit, Begs Forgiveness
The power of a social news site comes principally from its community, so when users feel like their service is being manipulated, they take it very personally. — Two weeks ago a rag tag team of anon...
The Little Red (Face)Book
When I spoke at Facebook about In The Plex recently, rumors were swirling that the social networking giant was about to enter China, supposedly in a partnership with the search engine Baidu. So I mad...
How Like.com Shut Down A Competitor-And Broke Up Its Funding Round
Updated: The tech press is chock full of stories of benevolent companies and entrepreneurs helping each other out—"helping the ecosystem." This often results in venture funding, which is the outcome ...