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November 20, 2009
Imeem's expected fire sale to MySpace shows that the plight of ad-supported streaming music services is worsening. News Corp.'s (NWS) social networking site MySpace is...
November 19, 2009
Salesforce.com (CRM) Chief Executive Marc Benioff has never been shy about trying to piggyback on other companies' momentum. On Nov. 18, he did it again through the ...
November 19, 2009
By Juan Carlos Perez Miami - AOL, which will be spun off from parent company Time Warner next month, wants to cut its staff by about a third, and is giving employees a...
November 18, 2009
Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part Valley Girl series on entrepreneurs in China. The second three of six types of businessmen are featured below. When I ...
November 18, 2009
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony need a new game plan. Amid growing evidence old marketing strategies aren't working and concerns by some analysts that holiday sales may ...
November 17, 2009
Cheaters beware. In late October, Indonesian developer Sheran Gunasekera released mobile-phone software that can help someone eavesdrop on your conversations. A ...
November 16, 2009
Videoconferencing may finally be headed for the mainstream. The technology that lets people around the globe hold face-to-face meetings electronically has been around ...
November 15, 2009
Speculation arose this past week that News Corp.-owned MySpace Music (NWS) is considering moving to a paid model, since the cost of free streaming is making its ...
November 11, 2009
Gray is the new black. Just as trafficking in black market goods has eroded sales of consumer electronics, a burgeoning "gray" market for cheap look-alike cell phones ...
November 10, 2009
At home, Peter VanRysdam rocks out to Guitar Hero on Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox 360. But while he's on break at work, the 31-year-old marketing executive from ...
November 9, 2009
In a move likely to give a big boost to the mobile-phone ad market, Google announced on Nov. 9 that it's buying AdMob, a provider of mobile ad technologies, for $750 ...
November 6, 2009
Months of legal wrangling over the fate of Skype ended Nov. 6. That's when parties sparring over the technology at the heart of the Internet-calling service reached a ...
November 5, 2009
In 1997 a a publisher of genealogical reference books and magazines launched a Web site, Ancestry.com, to complement its other offerings. More than a decade later, the...
November 4, 2009
In the formative days of the Internet economy, Microsoft (MSFT) put a high priority on its Microsoft Network, MSN. Time and again it repositioned the service, morphing...
November 4, 2009
During last year's bleak holiday shopping season, fashion designer Lauren Merkin greatly overestimated the number of handbags she'd sell in upscale retail stores such ...
November 3, 2009
It was the shake heard 'round the world. On Aug. 27, 2009, überblogger Robert Scoble uncovered a hidden software feature buried within an iPhone application that ...
November 3, 2009
Wise Foods wanted to make its Cheez Doodle brand appealing to a broader market. The snack food is typically purchased by parents for kids, but Wise Foods set about ...
November 1, 2009
The innovation coming out of the cloud computing market has, in many ways, made infrastructure startups interesting to venture capitalists again. Despite our ...
November 1, 2009
Tom Johnson is no engineer. But that didn't stop him from creating software that helps him market his wedding-video business. Johnson crafted an application, ...
November 1, 2009
By Yardena Arar San Francisco - With so many Web sites offering capable—and free—personal finance management tools, why would you pay $30, or significantly...
October 30, 2009
In response to questions by U.S. regulators, Google (GOOG) handed over information about the number of users for its Google Voice communication service and a list of ...
October 29, 2009
When entrepreneur Mike Cassidy wanted a meeting with Google's top brass recently, he knew who to call. Cassidy was advising a startup that was in talks to be sold to ...
October 27, 2009
Think back to the age of telecom before the breakup of AT&T, before the Internet, before Facebook or Twitter. That's about how antiquated America's system for ...
October 26, 2009
An Oct. 26 earnings report by Tellabs (TLAB) is the latest sign that the worst of the telecom spending slump may be ending. The seller of products that can boost ...
October 26, 2009
By Tony Bradley Facebook gave its homepage a makeover…again. Last Friday the social networking site quietly rolled out some fairly significant changes to the ...
