TechCrunch:
Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the exec’s lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine’s 2009 Women of the Year. Joining Mayer on the (Read More)
TechCrunch:
I’m in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we’re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we’re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture has gone global and I’m resear (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
It was one of the most sought after applications on the Internet until it was leaked earlier today. And now that it’s out there—and it is all over the place, easily findable by anyone able to use a search engine—we can all move on with our lives. Yes, Microsoft COFEE, the law enforcement tool that mystified so many of us (i (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
When news of the Litl Webbook broke out on Wednesday, I was pleased to learn that the company is located here in Boston since there aren’t nearly as many people in this area making actual hardware devices as opposed to software and web companies. I got a chance to sit down with CEO John Chuang for a thorough overview of the (Read More)
SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources:
With all the changes in Google AdWords and the increased competition these days, organic SEO looks more and more attractive to most of us.The key is for your website optimization to out-perform your competition, without over spending with an online marketing consultant (or without taking up too much of your time if you’re g (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Media companies beat earnings estimates left and right this week. How did they do it? In large part, thanks to their television divisions, where cable networks grew.With two noticeable exceptions, the television segment of these media companies was up, while the overall companies' revenues dropped.It's the dual revenue stru (Read More)
TechCrunch:
eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Index Ventures, a historical investor (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Earlier this morning, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis settled their lawsuits with eBay and a syndicate of investors in return for a 14 percent stake in the company they founded. The lawsuits were complicating the spin-off of Skype from eBay because the Skype founders still controlled the service’s underlying peer-to-peer (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
NYC-based Boxee will release the long-awaited beta version of its Web video-watching software on Dec. 7, MediaMemo's Peter Kafka tweets.
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Crunch Gear:
Yesterday’s trip down memory lane with the Gopher protocol got me thinking about all the other protocols I used to use, and those that I continue to use on a regular basis. There’s little doubt that hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is one of the most widely used protocols on the Internet today. But there are a host of oth (Read More)
ProBlogger:
By Johnny B. TruantI’m going to go out on a limb and say that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online. You don’t have to create a product or develop a service, you don’t need huge amounts of focused traffic the way you do with AdSense, (I started using AdSense a year ago and just recently passed the $100 (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Android: Slacker Radio, the customizable internet radio service that's previously landed on iPhones, offers an Android app that offers the same on-the-go streaming tunes, but with the big bonus of background music playing. The app apparently arrives customized on the new Droid and Droid Eris phones taking their bow today, b (Read More)
Shoemoney:
Difference Between is a very unique site that focuses on just what the name says, the difference between two things, usually two that are often confused with each other. The have articles in many categories including business (difference between GNP and GDP), Health (vegan vs. vegetarian diets), Internet (http vs. https), a (Read More)
Wired: Gadget Lab:
Quirky’s, erm, quirky approach to product design and marketing seems to be working. The company’s latest crowd-sourced gadget is the Beamer, which is not a German car that turns its owner into a boorish prig but an iPhone case with its own built-in flashlight.And like its Powercurl cord-winder and Kickster Nano case, the Be (Read More)