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Twitter Takes $35 Million Third Round Funding
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:35 pm on Feb. 13, 2009 (utc 0)
San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. has raised $35 million in third round funding to help expand its popular free micro-blogging service, in an agreement with Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital that closed Thursday, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.
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Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone Sees Business Account Fees Ahead
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:58 pm on Feb. 10, 2009 (utc 0)
San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. envisions a future day when its popular free micro-blogging service will begin imposing usage fees for commercial businesses, according to company co-founder Biz Stone.
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WebmasterWorld's 2008 PubCon Conference Shines Brightly In Las Vegas
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:10 pm on Jan. 7, 2009 (utc 0)
WebmasterWorld's PubCon, one of the most historic of all webmaster conferences, successfully concluded its biggest grand celebration yet of all things search-related on November 14, 2008 under the bright lights of the conference capital of the world that is Las Vegas, where the leading search and Internet marketing gurus gathered for four exciting days amidst throngs of live-bloggers feverishly trying to Twitter and blog as much of a PubCon-record speaker agenda that topped 85 sessions and six simultaneous tracks as was humanly possible.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Browser Used By 10 Percent Fewer During 2008
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:49 pm on Jan. 2, 2009 (utc 0)
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the most popular Web browser since 1998, has lost more than 10 percent of its market share since December 2007, while Mozilla's rival Firefox browser gained 27.3 percent during 2008, according to new figures from Net Applications.
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Growing OpenID Single Sign-on System Elects Community Board
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:57 pm on Dec. 29, 2008 (utc 0)
The OpenID Foundation, a legal entity set up as the steward for the OpenID Web identification system that seeks to make it easier for people to manage usernames and passwords for multiple online destinations by using a single sign-on, has announced the names of seven newly elected community board members.
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Google, Apple And Microsoft Face File Preview Patent Infringement Lawsuit
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:05 pm on Dec. 26, 2008 (utc 0)
Google, Microsoft and Apple have been sued by Cygnus Systems for allegedly infringing on the company's patent covering preview images of computer files, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the United States district court of Arizona.
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PubCon Concludes Successful 2008 Las Vegas Conference
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:37 pm on Nov. 17, 2008 (utc 0)
WebmasterWorld's PubCon conference successfully wrapped up Friday in Las Vegas after four days of more than 85 sessions. SearchEngineWorld presents a selection of links to a variety of PubCon 2008 coverage.
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PubCon Conference To Take Place November 11 Through 14 In Las Vegas
Lane_R_Ellis, 6:54 pm on Nov. 6, 2008 (utc 0)
WebmasterWorld's PubCon, the historic grand-daddy of all webmaster conferences stands poised to kick off its biggest grand celebration yet of all things search-related beginning next Tuesday, November 11.
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Visa Banking On Google Android Mobile Phone Tie In Plan
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:38 pm on Sep. 26, 2008 (utc 0)
Visa, the largest payment network in the United States, will provide certain online banking features to users of mobile phones using Internet search giant Google's Android operating system and certain phones from mobile manufacturer Nokia beginning this year.
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AOL Seeks To Improve Portal With More Third Party Content
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:26 pm on Sep. 10, 2008 (utc 0)
In an effort to draw more consumers and advertisers, Time Warner Inc.'s Internet services group AOL has refashioned its homepage to pull in information from third party sites including email previews from Google and Yahoo.
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Google Urges Consumers To "Free The Airwaves" With FCC Push
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:14 pm on Aug. 18, 2008 (utc 0)
Google has launched a public information campaign called "Free The Airwaves", enlisting the help of consumers to pressure the Federal Communications Commission into approving a "white-space" plan that would allow high speed wireless Internet access on unused spectrum.
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Yahoo Geo-Location Platform Fire Eagle Takes To Flight
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:10 pm on Aug. 13, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo hopes to spark a movement of online applications that know where people are and provide new services to them and to friends, with Tuesday's public launch of a geographical location platform for users and developers called Fire Eagle.
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Microsoft Health Record Effort Adds Kaiser To Online HealthVault
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:30 pm on June 9, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has entered into an online health record partnership with Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente, the biggest health-maintenance organization in the United States, that will see Kaiser's existing personal Web-based health record system connected with Microsoft's HealthVault program.
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Microsoft Joins Cloud Computing Race At Back Of Pack With Live Mesh
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:04 pm on April 23, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft, the world's largest traditional software company, has begun testing a so-called cloud computing Web-oriented software platform, called Live Mesh, that combines a person's digital information such as pictures, music and application documents, and makes them manageable online.
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Yahoo Joins Google and MySpace in OpenSocial Alliance
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:14 pm on Mar. 26, 2008 (utc 0)
Yahoo announced Tuesday that it will join an alliance, formed by competitor Google in October 2007, to try making it easier for programmers to popularize their applications on multiple social networking and other Web sites.
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Microsoft Workspace Brings Office Users To Web
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:51 pm on Mar. 4, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft brought users of its popular Office application suite the ability to work online with documents from programs including Word and Excel, using a new service called Microsoft Office Live Workspace that entered into a global public test Tuesday.
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Google Research Finds Security Risks in Web Ads and DNS
Lane_R_Ellis, 1:47 am on Feb. 14, 2008 (utc 0)
The risk of suffering a security breech while browsing the Web has gone up due to compromised Domain Name System (DNS) servers and malicious syndicated online advertising networks, according to reports released this week authored by a researcher at search giant Google and others.
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China Moves Towards Overtaking U.S. as Most Wired Nation
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:50 pm on Jan. 18, 2008 (utc 0)
In addition to being the world's most populous country with an estimated 1.32 billion citizens, China is headed towards overtaking the United States during the coming months as the nation with the most Internet users.
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Yahoo Announces News Video Partnership With Belo
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:54 pm on Jan. 9, 2008 (utc 0)
Sunnyvale, California-based Internet portal and search engine company Yahoo announced an agreement Wednesday with Dallas-based Belo Corporation, one of the nation's largest media companies, that will see local news video from 13 of Belo's television stations exclusively shown within the respective local news pages of Yahoo News.
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Top UK Social Site Bebo Brings in Broadcasters
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:43 pm on Nov. 14, 2007 (utc 0)
ESPN, MTV, CBS Among 22 Partners to Provide Content to Bebo's 40 Million Users. San Francisco-based Bebo, the world's third most popular social networking Web site, has partnered with twenty-two major media companies including ESPN, Turner, MTV, CBS and BBC, and will allow them to add music and video content to its site and to keep any advertising revenue generated while still retaining copyright.
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Skype Adds Free Calls to MySpace
lane_r_ellis, 3:59 pm on Oct. 18, 2007 (utc 0)
The leading Internet social network MySpace announced Tuesday a joint effort with top online phone service provider Skype to offer free Internet calling services to an existing user base of more than 330 million people.
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$300M Buys Majority Stake in The Generations Network
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:32 am on Oct. 18, 2007 (utc 0)
The Internet's most popular family history Web site Ancestry.com and its parent company The Generations Network will sell a $300 million majority interest to Spectrum Equity Investors, a private equity firm $4 billion in invested capital, the companies announced yesterday. The Generations Network is a privately held company that includes a group of properties which combined has more than 900,000 paying subscribers, and last year the company had revenues of roughly $150 million. The properties attract 8.2 million unique visitors each month according to August, 2007 figures from Web usage tracking company comScore.
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Startup TokBox Offers Video Chat Using Only Browser
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:49 am on Oct. 15, 2007 (utc 0)
For a Web start-up business scarcely six months old, TokBox has the rare combination of both high hopes of competing with popular rival companies such as Skype, and the financial backing to make it happen. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital announced today that it has invested part of $4 million in the company, and seeing how the same backer has funded such Web successes as YouTube, TokBox may be in a good position to compete with its traditional application-based video chat competitors.
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Review Site ConsumerSearch.com Acquired for $33 million by New York Times' About.com
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:27 am on May 7, 2007 (utc 0)
The New York Times Company announced today that it's popular information and reference web site About.com, has purchased ConsumerSearch.com, an on-line publisher of consumer product reviews, for the sum of $33 million. ConsumerSearch.com utilizes freelance writers who research product reviews both web-based and in traditional print sources, for thousands of consumer products in over 600 categories.
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