They predicted the “electronic frontier” of the Internet, Prozac, YouTube, cloning, home-schooling, the self-induced paralysis of too many choices, instant celebrities, and the end of blue-collar manufacturing. Not bad for 1970.READ»
Serious about starting a tech company? It used to be that Silicon Valley was the only place to go. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In this series, we talk to leading figures in those communities about what makes them tick.READ»
Yahoo's advertising war with Google and AOL has stepped up a notch with the purchase of Israeli-American firm Dapper for a reported $55 million. The move suggests that Sunnyvale is looking to hit Google where it hurts: Right in the customized ad pocketbook.READ»
AOL's just revealed it's launching its own clone of the Web shared discount service Groupon, dubbed "Wow!" It's definitely a technology trend at the moment, but will AOL risk falling into the same holes Groupon did? And why's it even trying this experiment?READ»
Fed up with trying to interpret those meaningless distorted CAPTCHA word-pictures? New York-based startup Solve Media wants to turn your irritation into ad dollars. READ»
A is for AOL. B is for Bank of America. C is for Craigslist. Say what? Presenting the default search results of New Google -- in rhyming couplets.READ»
Paul Allen: billionaire, philanthropist, industrialist, Microsoft co-founder...litigator. Today Allen, who rocketed to fortune with Bill Gates, filed suit against Apple, Google, AOL, eBay, Facebook...breathe, breathe...Netflix, ...READ»
After being bought three times in ten years, Lycos is a shadow of its former self. Take our quiz and match the optimistic company statement to the purchase date.READ»
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan's famous challenge to the Russian leader became a rallying-cry to end the Cold War. Now, decades later, Reagan's son is taking up the torch, albeit for a more important cause: ...READ»
Today, Yahoo launches The Upshot*, a news blog that uses search queries to determine its content. Staffed by a couple of editors and six writers (no robots as yet, though) it is, as James A. Pitaro claims--he's the VP of Yahoo ...READ»
Wesabe, a personal finance competitor to Mint.com
that emphasized its community features, ran out of money. CEO Mark Hedlund wrote in his farewell message that the site had been operating on starvation rations recently, which is ...READ»
News aggregator site Huffington Post has just made its first acquisition: Adaptive Semantics. It's a tech firm whose systems will help HuffPo with is main business of bringing together content, and comments from readers. Most ...READ»
I have been thinking quite a bit about WordPress lately, because I'm preparing a speech about "The Business of Wordpress" to give at a conference by the same name in Atlanta next week. And in looking through my own blog and ...READ»
While you were dreaming of lounging by the pool, BP and AOL continued dog paddling, College Humor jumped into the gaming content deep end, AT&T got deluged, and Portland surfaced as a Fast City. 1. Portland, Oregon mayor Sam ...READ»
AOL's been having a tough half-decade or so, but are looking to turn things around with a new content partnership with none other than the tween obsession of the moment, the Jonas brothers. READ»
Abandon hope, all ye traditional journalists who enter here: AOL has plans to be the "world's largest producer of high-quality content" and is hiring "hundreds" more content-generators to fill up its 17 new "super networks" of ...READ»
Facebook, fresh from its partial privacy revamp, is straight back to business as usual--which means expansion. It's just bought a small startup called ShareGrove, a group chatting client. Is Facebook planning to break into the IM ...READ»
