A Maryland man has sold the domain name "pizza.com" for $2.6 million.Chris Clark paid $20 to register the domain name back in 1994, hoping it would help his Internet consulting business get a contract with a pizza company. He never
The word "growth" pretty much sums up with global wireless data market's performance last year. Two key changes occurred as a result: India managed to overtake the U.S. in terms of subscriptions, and the U.S. passed Japan in terms of
Several of the big Internet companies - Google, Yahoo, and eBay - have lost important employees in the last week or so. And if it seemed like Microsoft was going to skate through, it's not - Vista blogger Nick White
Google has partnered with The New York Times to allow users to track the news geographically in a layer on Google Earth.Users can follow the news by location (city, state, country, neighborhood) and by section (U.S., Foreign, Sports, Travel). Items
Chinese search engines Baidu and Sohu face millions in penalties as Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music demand satisfaction over links to songs controlled by the labels.read more
Since the terms of the settlement remain unknown - and indeed, the settlement doesn't even seem to have occurred yet - it's hard to say which side won. But in any event, both Facebook and the founders of ConnectU appear
Companies' directors don't do much on a day-to-day basis; their departures don't, to be honest, cause any real-world cogs to stick. Still, it's not too encouraging that Philip R. Lochner, Jr. left Monster Worldwide's board of directors as the company's
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, who writes a blog about life in Cuba, has received one of Spain's major journalism awards, the Ortega and Gasset prize for digital journalism.Spanish newspaper El Pais, which gives out the award annually, said Sanchez won
The Internet will surpass television as the largest advertising medium in Britain by the end of 2009, according to a report from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the World Advertising Research Centre.The report says that Britain has
American Idol fave Clarkson wasn't especially pleased about four songs in the works hitting the Internet; we grabbed them during a stroll for bagels.read more
Well over two-thirds of the US search market's queries passed through the digestive tract of Google, while its next three closest competitors gave up share.read more
The European Interactive Advertising Association says that adults who live with children are more engaged online that those who don't, according to its new "Digital Families Report."The report found that 73 percent of people living with children are going online
I'm not sure the last time I saw a New York Times piece that failed to convince, well, anybody. It may be because Matt Richtel made the classic mistake of developing a thesis and sticking to it until he found
It was only a matter of time before Google got sued over Street View; the real question was which privacy group (or sympathetic person representing a privacy group) would be first to file. And now a couple with the last
The spread of a particular policy towards trademarks has some AdWords users in the UK worried. And if new data from Hitwise is accurate, they should be.read more
Tokyo, Japan, Apr 7, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced today that it will conduct a pilot test of its new Mobile Fragrance Communication (Kaori Tsushin Mobile) service, a mobile version of an existing service for
In their subscriber contracts, some Internet providers explicitly absolve themselves of obligations that, it seems, no one would imagine they had in the first place. For instance, Verizon Communications makes broadband subscribers agree that the company assumes no responsibility for
Thomas Weisel Partners upgraded Apple Monday, saying the company's current share price severely discounts long-term growth potential. The firm also said the risk that 2008 results will disappoint has faded. Analyst Doug Reid moved his rating to "Overweight" from "Market
