Glam Snaps Up AdaptiveAds
9:19 pm PST • January 28, 2009
Glam Media has acquired AdaptiveAds, a startup based in Mumbai, India that serves display ads targetable by the demographic characteristics brand advertisers understand (such as “Women 24-40, Fashionista, Beauty”). It…
Google Gobbled Up 90 Percent Of All U.S. Search Growth In 2008
8:15 pm PST • January 28, 2009
Google ended the year with 63.5 percent market share of all search queries performed in the U.S., estimates comScore. And that market share has inched up steadily from 58.5 percent…
ComScore Report: Fastest-Growing Sites And Top-Ten Advertising Magnets
8:14 pm PST • January 28, 2009
Of the top 100 sites on the Web, which ones grew the fastest in 2008? In a report it is preparing to release tomorrow, The comScore 2008 Digital Year In…
Can Viral Videos Be Repeated?
3:52 pm PST • January 28, 2009
The nature of viral videos is that they are usually quirky and come out of nowhere. They somehow capture the zeitgeist of the Web and often involve dancing. But can…
The Canary At The New York Times Grows Larger As Internet Advertising Keeps Dropping
9:48 am PST • January 28, 2009
The advertising situation at the New York Times is not getting any better. Today, the company released its fourth quarter earnings. Total advertising revenues were down 13.1 percent in the…
The Privacy Dilemma
8:10 am PST • January 28, 2009
The more of our lives that we put online, the less privacy we have. It is as simple as that. And this is a problem that will just get worse…
Digg Poaches New Head Of Sales From Yahoo
4:31 pm PST • January 27, 2009
After not being acquired by Google last year and announcing some cutbacks last week, Digg is rolling up its sleeves and getting to work. The company has hired Tom Shin…
Gmail Goes Offline With Google Gears
4:00 pm PST • January 27, 2009
Until today, one of the biggest drawbacks of Gmail is that you could not go through your emails when you were offline. Today, that changes. Gmail is finally going offline.…
When Apple hired away Mark Papermaster from IBM as its new senior vice president of hardware engineering for devices, IBM struck back with a lawsuit attempting to bar him from…
Yahoo CEO Bartz: "This Is Not A Company That Needs To Be Pulled Apart For The Chickens."
2:32 pm PST • January 27, 2009
Yahoo released its fourth quarter 2008 earnings today. Its non-GAAP EPS came in at $0.17 a share, above the $0.13 consensus. (Yahoo lost $0.22 a share on a GAAP basis…
Websense Acquires Spam Blocker Defensio
1:20 pm PST • January 27, 2009
Website security software company Websense has acquired Defensio, a comment spam blocker used by blogs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Defensio competes with Akismet, the spam blocker that…
Apple And IBM Resolve Employment Dispute; Papermaster Can Now Get To Work
12:17 pm PST • January 27, 2009
When Apple hired away Mark Papermaster from IBM as its new senior vice president of hardware engineering for devices, IBM struck back with a lawsuit attempting to bar him from…
Facebook Users Are Becoming Big Fans of Masturbation, And Other Page Stats
8:36 am PST • January 27, 2009
If you want to track the most popular fan pages on Facebook, AllFacebook pushed out a new Facebook Pages Tracker last night that keeps stats on 611,213 fan pages on…
The Kyte Dashboard: Like Google Analytics For Your Cell-Phone Videos
10:43 pm PST • January 26, 2009
Mobile video service Kyte is trying hard these days to please its biggest (paying) customers: music labels and their artists, primarily. Performers such as 50 Cent and John Legend use…
FIM Trims About 100 Jobs, Mostly At Photobucket And Corporate
8:55 pm PST • January 26, 2009
Fox Interactive Media is eliminating more than just free lunches. News Corp’s digital arm is trimming nearly 100 jobs across several business units, including Photobucket, MySpace, Scout Media, Rotten Tomatoes,…
Mozilla Gives $100,000 Grant Towards An Open Video Format For The Web
3:24 pm PST • January 26, 2009
The Mozilla Foundation is putting its weight behind an effort to create an open video format on the Web. It is doing this by giving $100,000 in grant money, to…
Clerkdogs Has Your OscarMatch: Quirky Movie Recommendations You Won't Find On Netflix
1:14 pm PST • January 26, 2009
After watching your share of this year’s Oscar nominees, you might find yourself following the time-honored tradition of renting every tangentially related film in the hopes of finding something else…
Make aMap Of Your Best Arguments
10:59 am PST • January 26, 2009
Sometimes the easiest way to convey an argument is with a diagram. UK-startup Team Rubber has come out with a nifty embeddable widget called aMap that lets you make a…
Are cell phones no longer a growth business? At least in the fourth quarter, cell phone shipments actually declined. According to Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff, shipments from the top…
FriendFeed Hits Nearly One Million Visitors; Grew Tenfold In The Past Six Months
7:40 am PST • January 25, 2009
While 2008 was Twitter’s hockey-stick year, Twitter’s little brother FriendFeed is also beginning to show hockey-stick tendencies in its growth. According to comScore, FriendFeed attracted 950,000 unique visitors worldwide in…
Video: Steve Jobs Giving His First Big Demo
11:57 am PST • January 24, 2009
Twenty five years ago today, on January 24, 1984, Steve Jobs gave the first on-stage demonstration of the Macintosh computer to a packed auditorium. The technology was much different then,…
VC Dollars Dropped 33 Percent In The Fourth Quarter, Down 8 Percent For All 2008
8:59 pm PST • January 23, 2009
Venture capital firms tightened their purse strings in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the latest MoneyTree Report released by the National Venture Capital Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The total…
Against All TOS: Guy Tries To Sell His "YouTube" Digg Account On Craigslist For Rent Money
2:24 pm PST • January 23, 2009
How bad is the economy? In an effort to raise money for his rent, one man named Victor is trying to sell his Digg account on Craigslist for $650. It’s…
Beta Invites For Ridemakerz Virtual World
12:00 pm PST • January 23, 2009
If you know a boy between 6 and 12 who likes cars, check out the beta for a new virtual world designed by Ridemakerz, the build-your-own-car toy store. We have…
ComScore: Internet Population Passes One Billion; Top 15 Countries
10:16 am PST • January 23, 2009
The number of people on the Internet surpassed one billion in December, according to comScore. The actual number is probably higher than that (Internet World Stats counted nearly 1.5 billion…
Tech Layoffs Come Back With a Vengeance: 80,000 In January, Approaching 200,000 Total
8:59 am PST • January 23, 2009
After layoff activity in the tech industry quieted down around the holidays, it’s come back with a vengeance in January. According to our Layoff Tracker, 80,076 job eliminations have been…
Liveblog: Google Takes $1 Billion Charge To Write Down AOL And Clearwire Investments
1:13 pm PST • January 22, 2009
Google just released fourth quarter earnings. Net Income was down a whopping 68 percent to $382 million (compared to $1.2 billion a year ago), primarily because of a $1 billion…
As Growth Flattens, Digg Downsizes
12:03 pm PST • January 22, 2009
On a day when Microsoft announced 5,000 layoffs, the 7 or so people losing their jobs at Digg may seem like a drop in the bucket. But that represents about…
Innovid Launches New Form Of Video Advertising: The Clickable Canvas
8:52 am PST • January 22, 2009
A lot of experimentation with video advertising on the Web is going on these days. Today, an Israeli startup called Innovid (see earlier coverage) is doing its part to help…
Microsoft Lost Nearly $500 Million On The Web Last Quarter
7:35 am PST • January 22, 2009
Overall, Microsoft’s quarterly net profits declined 11 percent to $4.17 billion for the fiscal period ended in December. Operating profits were down 8 percent to $5.94 billion. If you drill…