MySpace, the troubled social network with a giant "For Sale" sign planted on its front lawn, has a buyout offer from mobile community company MocoSpace. See how the names are similar, with the "Space" at the end? It's a... MORE»
Amazon isn’t the only one noticing an increase in book sales Last week, the company announced that it now sells more ebooks than print ones. For every 100 print books sold in 2010, Amazon sold 115 ebooks. Now the New York Times is getting in on the... MORE»
Crowd funding platform Kickstarter has been on fire recently, and today the site launched curated pages, allowing for another level of community involvement and social... MORE»
The crazy weather has to be good for somebody’s profit margin. And, not surprisingly, that somebody is weather.com. On January 31, weather.com cashed in on storm fatigue, setting the one-day digital record for traffic with 126.7 million page views. The Weather Channel for iphone app got 35.2 million hits and the Weather Channel for Android app got 23.7 million. Since ads on websites are sold by pageview, when websites get slammed with a blizzard of hits, they often don't have enough ad inventory to stock their... MORE»
Foodspotting, the company that encourages users to photograph their favorite restaurant food so that others may make better decisions about what to order, has partnered with SinglePlatform, a go-between for publishers and restaurants that want to promote their events and dishes. TheNextWeb... MORE»
New York-based Tremor Media, which provides in-stream video advertising services to clients, is buying up mobile ad firm Transpera, TechCrunch reports. Transpera, which is headquartered in San Francisco but has offices in New York's TechSpace, has raised $17.3 million from Flybridge Partners, First Round Capital, Intel Capital and... MORE»
SXSW Interactive is the big show for tech startups, and a natural milieu for the young entrepreneur who loves to mix business with pleasure. But for ad agency suits looking to spot the best emerging trends, SXSW can be a nightmare week of late night parties and missed... MORE»
Like many developers, Marco Arment was not initially a fan of the secretive review process for Apple's app store. But in a blog post today Arment says he's changed his mind, perhaps motivated by some of the problems he's been seeing in the Google app store. "Another day, another batch of Instapaper trademark infringers in the Chrome Web Store, with Google still doing nothing," he wrote on Twitter last... MORE»
Meetup.com launched a drastic and much-hyped redesign last week, and as with many sites that serve an extremely dedicated group of users, some Meetup power users were pissed off. And they were loud about... MORE»
"It's like your phone and your wallet had a beautiful baby," is the tagline for Venmo, a New York-based startup vying to be the next big thing in cashless... MORE»
Football fans can check in to the big game with Foursquare this Sunday, even if they're not lucky enough to score a ticket. The Superbowl will appear as a "Promoted Trending Venue" atop the list of trending places on Foursquare users'... MORE»
Whether it's Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr, email or any of the many usefuly web-based services that are all the rage now, users should keep in mind that terms of service can change, companies can be bought and mistakes can happen--especially if a service is... MORE»
The iPad was supposed to be the walled garden where newspapers could get back to writing news and readers could get back to paying for it. But just one day after the launch of The Daily a Tumblr has appeared, The Daily: Indexed, with links to all the paper's free content. As this Tumblr points out, there are still some items which can't be accessed without purchasing the iPad app, "If you like these articles, go... MORE»
There has been a surge in interest and activity around question-and-answer sites over the past six months, creating an opportunity for Answers.com to cash out with a private equity firm to the tune of $127... MORE»
SNAP Interactive -- the company that unleashed AreYouInterested.com on the world, amassed 35 million users, saw its stock price skyrocket and raised $8.5 million in a private placement -- has launched a beta version of its latest app... MORE»
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