LinkedIn's just launched its new platform to everyone interested in hooking up to the business networking site's APIs. Useful stuff, for some, but what it's really about is trying to usurp Facebook in the enterprise social networking space.READ»
American Express is joining the ranks of old-school credit card companies that have realized they need to embrace the future of digital transactions. Its new Serve platform enables novel digital payments that threaten PayPal and pave the way for NFC.READ»
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, talks about Salesforce's latest moves to build into the new Internet platform with a partnership with Google that'll be announced on Monday. He talks some smack about existing enterprise vendors ...READ»
Facebook wants you doing more stuff on Facebook. Earlier this week, users saw themselves Yenta'd back into stale relationships by Facebook's long-lost-friend algorithm. Now the site is trying to lure you deeper into its apps and ...READ»
Facebook has created its own Google Labs equivalent, dubbed "Facebook Prototypes," according to Mashable. The division released its first product last week, a desktop notifier for Mac OS X. The company has two more little apps ...READ»
Star bank holding firm Goldman Sachs has been getting its fair share of antipathy this month. First it was Rolling Stone's polemic against the bank; then it was BusinessWeek's sobering review of how the 140-year-old firm will be ...READ»
Google Wave, announced today at Google's I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, is a hybridized email system that will fundamentally change the way we think about electronic messaging. This is foreboding ...READ»
If you're a nerd, you have spent the last year explaining to your friends the virtue (or downfall) of Twitter and Facebook. In another year, you'll have a third prong to your presentation: Tumblr.
Tumblr is a little bit the ...READ»
It's called Gabble, and it's a free host for all your personal videos. Sound familiar? That's the same concept that made YouTube a massive success--and plenty of other companies have tried to compete in the space. The advantage of ...READ»
Wednesday Google [GOOG] announced it would begin using behavioral targeting in its online advertisements, renewing discussions about the probity of the practice. There aren't any laws that dictate what kind of information advertisers ...READ»
The executives at Facebook may be under a grand delusion: they seem to think that Facebook is a nation. And they're attempting to build it a government.
This is, of course, a tremendously stupid idea.
Sure, Facebook has ...READ»
It's been a tough year for Redmond: bricking Zunes, class-action suits, and the people-hate-Vista debacle. You'd think those three catapstrophes would be enough to make the PC giant shape up. You'd be wrong.
Microsoft [MSFT], it ...READ»
Longjump has built an enterprise applications
development platform (among other things, you'll see it does quite a
bit). We'll meet Longjump's CEO, Pankaj Malviya, who'll tell us what
he's learned about how ...READ»
