Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
At the age of 40, King Gillette was a frustrated inventor, a bitter anticapitalist, and a salesman of cork-lined bottle caps.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/25/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

Online Auction Listings Down 13% in Boycott of eBay
The biggest boycott by eBay sellers concludes Monday, capping a week of acrimony after the online-auction site raised fees and changed its feedback policy.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/25/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

YouTube Outage Blamed on Pakistan
Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube have been blamed for a near global blackout of the site on Sunday.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/25/2008 | Digital Media

Ad Spending Moving from Portals to Search, Entertainment Sites
For online advertising, the word is that portals are out, but search, entertainment, and social network sites are in.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/25/2008 | Advertising & Affiliate Sales

Getty Images Selling To PE Firm Hellman & Friedman For $2.4 Billion
Stock photo firm Getty Images, which was known to be shopping itself around, has agreed to sell itself to PE Firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion or $34.00 per share.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/25/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Mixx, Social News Competitor to Digg, Raises Another $2 million
Many startups have tried to take on social news site Digg. Mixx is one of them, but it has a few additional features that lets users fine-tune what stories they see...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/25/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Microsoft Launches Private Beta of Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft has sent out a letter to a select group of beta testers offering a chance to participate in a technical preview of Internet Explorer 8 beta 1.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/25/2008 | Website Design & Development

Maybe Microsoft Should Stalk Different Prey
OVER the years, Microsoft has pummeled countless rivals, including the superheavyweight I.B.M. But it has never faced a smaller foe as formidable as Google.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/24/2008 | Digital Media

Super-speed Internet Satellite Blasts off in Japan
Japan launched a rocket Saturday carrying a satellite that will test new technology that promises to deliver "super high-speed Internet" service to homes and businesses...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/24/2008 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Comment of the Day: "Google Docs is Chock Full of Fail"
In his post Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office, Bernard Lunn argued that the collaboration features in Google Apps are good enough to take on Microsoft.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/24/2008 | Digital Media

Mininova: Serving Billions of Torrents and Buying Bugattis
Mininova has evolved quite a bit since it has started three years ago. Within a year it was one of the most visited torrent sites on the Internet...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/24/2008 | Digital Media

Digg, Wikipedia, and The Myth of Web 2.0 Democracy
It's getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater. The user-generated and -edited online encyclopedia—which doesn't even require contributors to register—somehow holds...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/23/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Digital Downloads Will be Blu-ray's Downfall
With the fall of HD DVD, Blu-ray has assumed the throne as the next format of choice, but its reign will be short-lived.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/23/2008 | Digital Media

Social Slowdown Hitting Piczo Hard
Life is getting more difficult for social-networking sites. At the same time Facebook's traffic appears to have reached a plateau, News.com has learned that Piczo...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/23/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Yahoo Sued for Spurning Microsoft
Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft Corp.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/23/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Creating Customized Social Networking Applications For Business
I wrote a while back that Facebook is not for business, i.e it’s not clear how an application designed for socializing among students could be used — without any...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/23/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Facebook - Back to The Kids?
Facebook - it's so over. That's been the tenor of most of the commentary since Thursday's figures showing a slight dip in Facebook's UK users.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/22/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Why Google Apps is a Serious Threat to Microsoft Office
This is the perspective of a “skeptical, later early adopter”; the sort of person who Microsoft needs to retain and should have been able to retain easily.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/22/2008 | Digital Media

Google Founder Spooked by Microsoft Bid
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. an "unnerving" maneuver that threatens innovation on the Internet.
eBusiness News | Posted 02/22/2008 | Venture Capital & Acquisitions

Whitehall Gives ISPs Piracy Deadline
The government will on Friday tell internet service providers they will be hit with legal sanctions from April next year unless they take concrete steps to curb illegal...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/22/2008 | Web Hosting & Domain Names

Firefox Crosses 500 Million Download Mark
It's an arbitrary but interesting milestone for the open-source Web browser, whose development is overseen by Mozilla but that's also developed and extended by a large...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/22/2008 | Website Design & Development

Microsoft Launches New Open Standards, Interoperability Push
In a press conference this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and chief software architect Ray Ozzie announced a new initiative designed to open up its products...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/21/2008 | Digital Media

Google Launching AdSense for Video - Minus the Video
After nearly a year in closed beta, Google is expected to announce tonight that its AdSense for Video program is now open to publishers.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/21/2008 | Adsense & Other Context Ads

Google Ventures Into Health Records Biz
Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about...
eBusiness News | Posted 02/21/2008 | Content Sites & Blogs

Ask.com Binoculars Adds Compete.com Stats
Ask.com has announced that they have added site statistics from Compete.com to the binoculars feature in the search results.
eBusiness Information | Posted 02/21/2008 | Search Engine Optimization