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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 ...
October 25, 2009
Sure, you're up on Android smartphones and perhaps other Linux-based phone platforms, but the freewheeling world of open source includes many hugely useful telephony ...
October 22, 2009
If you're a BlackBerry (RIM) or iPhone (AAPL) user (see: addict), then you are partly responsible for the great Internet buildout. Those cute apps that look up ...
October 22, 2009
Booming sales of e-book readers and material to read on them brought early holiday cheer to online retailer Amazon.com (AMZN) in the third quarter. And judging from ...
October 21, 2009
Google and Microsoft have more than each other to contend with in the lucrative market for Internet advertising. Increasingly, when Web surfers want information ...
October 20, 2009
While revenue from time-shifted TV distribution can account for only part of a monetization strategy, the economics of television are changing for the cheaper. This ...
October 20, 2009
Gray letters on a gray screen. A keypad that some users found lacking. With the Kindle e-book reader, Amazon.com (AMZN) simply didn't set the bar that high. On Oct. ...
October 19, 2009
Editor's Note: This is the second in a two-part series about the potential hazards of storing personal and business data with online services. The first article, ...
October 19, 2009
Facebook has been hit with public outcry over some of the changes it has made to the social networking site over the years, but the real risk, according to comments ...
October 18, 2009
I was recently at a Silicon Valley conference where one of the debates that raged into the wee hours centered on Silicon Valley's increasing aversion to risk: Is it a ...
October 18, 2009
Amid a tough economy, free or low-cost Web-based e-mail services such as Google's (GOOG) Gmail or Google Apps, Microsoft's Hotmail, and Yahoo! (YHOO) mail are hugely ...
