Slide: The $500 Million Widget
After cashing in big with PayPal, Max Levchin could be at it again with his social network tool. The latest funding values Slide at a half-billion.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

The "Google Generation" Not So Hot at Googling, After All
A new UK report on the habits of the "Google Generation" finds that kids born since 1993 aren't quite the Internet super-sleuths they're sometimes made out to be.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Digital Media

Facebook Faces Privacy Questions
Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Jupiter: Local Online Advertising Will Be Worth $8.9 Billion In 2012
There are now a range of local forecasts in the market, some more bullish and some more conservative. But all generally agree that locally targeted ads in search...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

A Follow-up To Our Referrals Announcement
You may have seen our recent post about the upcoming changes to referrals promoting AdSense. Since we made this announcement, we've received a number of ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Apple's Methodical Moves Show It Takes Time to Change The World
Up or down? That's what this week's Macworld show came down to for most news organizations. Would the new Apple products make the company's shares go up or down?
eBusiness News | Posted 01/19/2008 | Digital Media

Sprint to Cut 4,000 Jobs
Sprint Nextel , the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, said on Friday it will cut about 4,000 jobs and close about 8 percent of its stores, predicting further pressure...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/18/2008 | Digital Media

Seesmic Killed The YouTube Star?
It's not often you are presented with a vision of the future of online video in a pub in London. But that's exactly what I was shown last night by celebrated French blogger...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/18/2008 | Digital Media

Digg's Secret Editors
Why do some stories abruptly disappear from Digg? Duncan Riley of TechCrunch suspects "super users." But there's a much simpler explanation: Digg's ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/18/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

YouTube’s Traffic Continues to Snowball
More content begets more viewers, which, in turn, beget more content. That’s the virtuous cycle — the network effect — that has propelled Google-owned YouTube...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/18/2008 | Website Analytics

Deal Of the Day: CNN Pays $750,000 For Web Address
CNN just made self-styled "Domain King" Rick Schwartz a happy man. The network paid $750,000 to acquire urls ireport.com and i-report.com from Schwartz, ...
eBusiness News | Posting 01/18/2008 | Domaineering

Yahoo Puts Its Heft Behind OpenID 2.0
Yahoo said Tuesday that it plans to support the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework and bring its 248 million users to the Web’s interoperability party.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Website Design & Development

Time Warner to Test Internet Billing Based on Usage
Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday it is planning a trial to bill high-speed Internet subscribers based on their amount of usage rather than a flat fee, ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Digital Media

Has AT&T Lost Its Mind?
Chances are that as you read this article, it is passing over part of AT&T's network. That matters, because last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Digital Media

Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook's Ass in Traffic
While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/17/2008 | Website Analytics