Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
TechCrunch:
At the beginning of 2009, during a now-famous strategy meeting, Twitter’s executives asked themselves, “Are we building a new Internet?” At the crux of that question was the realization that Twitter “introduced a new form of communication to the world.” Public micro-messages are now everywhere—on Twitter, Facebook, MySpac (Read More)
Mashable!:
Besides going into beta mode in December, social media-enabled media center Boxee has some other great news in store: it will be getting its own dedicated hardware device soon too.Right now in alpha Boxee runs on Mac, Linux and Windows systems — but a dedicated device likely means a far cheaper hardware option and will obvi (Read More)
Mashable!:
Technology powerhouse Hewlett Packard (HP) has just announced that it has struck a deal to acquire 3Com, one of the world’s leading networking hardware and software companies, for a giant $2.7 billion price tag. The deal, if it goes through, will bring HP into direct competition with Cisco and its networking business. 3co (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
This is a report from our premium subscription research service The Internet Analyst. The Internet Analyst is currently in beta, with a formal launch coming towards the end of 2009. To sign up for a free beta trial, please submit your name and email address here. Yahoo's near-term prospects should be good, as the company (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Matthew Garrahan, FT: News Corporation is paying more than $1m a month to rent an empty office complex in Los Angeles that it has been unable to sub-lease since scrapping an ambitious plan to move MySpace and its other digital businesses there.The company is locked into a 12-year lease worth about $350m that it signed in Au (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Mashable!:
The talks are preliminary according to AllThingsD, but they nevertheless reveal more of struggling social network MySpace’s strategy for re-inventing itself. And although MSN Music already has its own content network, executives are considering retooling it with MySpace’s help because of its lackluster performance. This fol (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
An all-star team is forming at StatusNet, the open microblogging service for businesses and communities. The newest addition is Jon Phillips, former community and business development manager for Creative Commons. Phillips joins Brion Vibber, who came from the Wikimedia Foundation where he served as chief technology offic (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Earlier this afternoon Fake Steve Jobs took one look at Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile commercial and wrote, “Dancing Twitter icons do not translate into cutting-edge advertising.”I don’t know. I think the commercial is pretty good, but only because it seems to me the strategy here was to turn Internet Explorer, Outlook, Mi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We're very pleased to announce the launch of ReadWriteWeb's third country channel: ReadWriteWeb Brazil. It joins our existing two country channels, France and China. ReadWriteWeb Brazil is written in the Portuguese language, one of the world's major languages with up to 230 million native speakers. Brazil has by far the lar (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's been a long and winding road for serial volunteer and social media philanthropist Sloane Berrent.Since her unplanned departure from an L.A.-based startup in 2008, Berrent has traveled through eight countries, documenting and publicizing the struggles of those in developing areas through her blog posts, tweets, images, (Read More)