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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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