Last November, Google announced that it had acquired leading mobile ad network AdMob for a whopping $750 million. Today, less than a year after the d... read more »
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Sites like I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, and The Daily What may seem frivolous (because, well, they are), but theya4ぎa4ёe just attracted $30 mil... read more »
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When AOL bought us a month ago, we were promised a lot of things: autonomy, resources, inappropriately long corporate meetings, and fame. So far, AOL ... read more »
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In the past few months, Twitter appears to have finally found a business model, and that model is advertising &8212' chief executive Dick Costolo said... read more »
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A squabble occurred between Microsoft and the Finnish game house Rovio, maker of the incredibly popular mobile game Angry Birds. Microsoft used the An... read more »
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We&'ve gotten word this morning that online streaming video service Ustream has laid off 9 people from its 200 person staff. With social news site Dig... read more »
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Books are becoming electronic like every other form of print media, but they still lag in their social skills. A startup called Rethink Books wants ... read more »
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MySpace and Facebook held a joint online press conference today where they announced a new integration using Facebooka4ぎa4г social data. Prior to th... read more »
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As with many cellphone manufacturers trying to figure out how to make the leap into superphones, LGa4ぎa4г bet on Google&'s Android operating system ... read more »
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Today&'s funding announcements include ways for artists to produce content and engage fans online:Cloudpic grabs $6M to help artists collaborate from ... read more »
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Glam Media is one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, with a total reach of 90 million people a month in the U.S. Over th... read more »
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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is receiving treatment from the Stanford Cancer Center, according to reports in the tabloid National Enquirer and cel... read more »
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If you&'re an Uber, previously UberCab, user you&'re used to getting door to door car service simply by ordering it up on your iPhone. But only when ... read more »
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Back in the old days B4ぎB4拌4sあsay, 2004 or soa4sあB4ぎB4拌4sあthe only way to get computer games was from retail outlets. Then Valve&'s digita... read more »
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Yesterday, both the New York Times and Robert Scoble unveiled publicly for the first time what a company called Kiha Software has been working on for ... read more »
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Oracle and Intel are in a high-stakes spat over the future of Intel&'s Itanium chip. Oracle announced last night that it had stopped all development o... read more »
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There&'s a gold rush going on in security investments, and Lookout Mobile Security is cashing in on it. The smartphone security company is announced t... read more »
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Back to the Future may have been right: The cars of tomorrow will be powered by capacitors (they will not, presumably, be able to time-travel).At leas... read more »
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Location-based chat startup Yobongo is opening its iPhone app beyond its private test today &8212' now any user in San Francisco, New York, and Austi... read more »
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The buzz over Nokia&'s potentially risky new partnership with Microsoft continued to rise this week, as the market worried talent would flee Nokia in ... read more »
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