Skype and MySpace have teamed up to make their instant messaging clients interoperate. This is part of a wide-ranging agreement between the two companies, the financial terms of which were not disclosed, and marks the first time Skype is interoperating with any outside IM clients.Sometime in November, MySpace will release MySpaceIM with Skype. The partnership [...]
Yahoo’s (YHOO) third-quarter earnings report offers a mixed picture of the company’s condition: much better than feared, but still not good enough to launch it back into the vanguard of Internet giants.Revenue in the quarter ended Sept. 30 rose 3 percent from the second quarter and rose 14 percent from the same quarter a year [...]
Instead of facing the wrath of the New York Attorney General and testing the legal system, Facebook has decided to settle a probe over child safety on the social networking site. This is a smart move, and one that may clear the way for the rumored equity investment by one of the tech giants [...]
Apparently the answer is…yes! According to a study by SearchIgnite and investment bank RBC Capital Markets:While marketer spend increased quarter over quarter by 1.8 percent, marketers in the third quarter were apt to put their increased budget in Yahoo. Spending on Yahoo increased by 7.8 percent from Q2 to Q3 while Google only [...]
As a big believer in real-time interactions, I was excited to read about TokBox, a new startup that just received $4 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and has the blessing of the very same people who were involved with YouTube (GOOG), including YouTube’s third co-founder, Jawed Karim. (Though that doesn’t ensure success!)By leveraging [...]
Kara Swisher got her hands on a memo sent out to AOL (TWX) employees earlier today from CEO Randy Falco. Here is a summary of what it says:The focus is advertising and the new venture, Platform-A.New web-based properties, including super-hot TMZ.com, are the focus; he calls it the “publishing business.”Not giving up on Access business [...]
FOX News says:Google, the Silicon Valley giant which has made (Al) Gore a multi, multi-millionaire, has denied Sen. Susan Collins the chance to run an ad on Google condemning MoveOn.org, which is spending fortunes targeting her by funding ads against her or ads for her opponent. Ms. Collins is a Republican. Google says her ad [...]
Update: Hey Michael when you say, “Om Malik says Facebook traffic is tanking” it is not quite true. As I said in my original Facebook-traffic post from late last night, I don’t quite buy it. My exact words, “It just doesn’t make any sense! Unless of course, the unthinkable is happening. I hope to [...]
In these irrational times, let me attempt to offer a rational explanation for why CBS bought DotSpotter. Unlike Matthew Ingram, I have actually heard of DotSpotter, and wrote about them a while ago, so I know a couple of things about this company. First, they have an awesome team of developers, the kind CBS [...]
Online storage start-ups are a dime a dozen. And yet, entrepreneurs don’t give up on this highly commoditized sector. Dominik Grolimund is one of them. He has started Wua.la, a Zurich-based company that is using principles of peer-to-peer networking and applying them to storage.The five-person company has been funded so far by Grolimund’s other start-up, [...]
