MySpace President Tom Anderson posted a blog last week detailing a bunch of recent changes to the site. The new features lead me to believe that the company is finally starting to realize that Facebook, with its anti-spam features, clean-cut layout, and growing traffic figures, might be on to something.One of the most annoying things [...]
eBay (EBAY) finally has a desktop application. Built with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) technology, the eBay desktop beta — until recently known by the code name San Dimas — is a pretty sweet little app that can help you monitor your auctions, bid, and whatever else you want to do on eBay. It is clean [...]
Everyone wants a piece of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Office suite. Google (GOOG), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), IBM (IBM), dozens of start-ups and now, Adobe Systems (ADBE). The company today bought Virtual Ubiquity, a Waltham, Mass.-based start-up behind Buzzword, an online word processing software offering. I guess this is one way to respond to Microsoft Silverlight [...]
Small- and medium-sized businesses are the hot target markets right now, whether it’s voice and broadband or web services. The biggest opportunity, however, seems to be in hosted email, as Yahoo’s (YHOO) $350 million bet on Zimbra and Google’s (GOOG) Apps initiative demonstrate.Rackspace, a San Antonio, Tex.-based managed hosting company, today made its own [...]
Greg Linden, the founder of news aggregation service Findory is shutting down the service on November 1, 2007, according to a blog post on his personal blog. It is a shame!Findory was riding the “information personalization” trend that is only going to gain importance in coming years. The excessive amount of content is making [...]
As Apple (APPL) and Amazon (AMZN) duke it out in the MP3 price war, music publishers are still trying to figure out how to cash in on a crowd that will go to great lengths to get its music for free.Imeem, a San Francisco-based music discovery startup, said it has signed a content [...]
There is supposed to be a big meeting today at Yahoo (YHOO) headquarters today, where the entire management will meet and discuss the company’s “grand plan.”About 300-odd folks with titles that say vice president or something equally elevated will get into a room and listen to Jerry Yang (CEO and co-founder) talk about the [...]
Google (GOOG) is acquiring certain assets and technology of Zingku, a mobile social network startup that helps users organize their social life via the web and text messaging. Zingku wrote about the deal on its site, and a Google spokesperson confirmed the plans. Zingku, a Boston-based startup was co-founded by Sami Shalabi. The service [...]
All these rumors about Facebook getting a massive investment from one corporate behemoth or another have got to make you wonder: Why would a company that is expecting revenues of $150 million, and profits to boot, need fresh capital? Why would a company whose dominance of the social networking space is being touted as some [...]
Like mushrooms after a monsoon, Facebook-specific ad networks keep sprouting everywhere. Latest to join the Facebook gold rush is Appfuel, a San Francisco-based start-up that has developed a way to target ads inside Facebook apps using keywords.The five-person, angel-funded company says it is less a network, and more a platform that allows better [...]
