Nobody is safe in the House of Murdoch, especially on the Internet side of the house. Yesterday, News Corp’s online games business, IGN Entertainment, announced layoffs to its staff. Cuts were pretty even across all parts of the company, and we’ve been able to learn that about 65 people in total lost their [...] [...more]
FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour says she doesn’t believe consumer privacy played any significant role in Google’s thoughts when [...] [...more]
Ash Patel, a senior Yahoo exec and one of the company’s longest serving employees, will shortly be stepping down. His last day will be next Monday. Patel was one of Yahoo’s first sixty employees, and joined shortly before the company went public in April 1996. There are just six current Yahoo employees who joined before Patel, [...] [...more]
Yelp has been hit with another lawsuit, the third in a matter of a few weeks. Similar to the previous complaints, this lawsuit filed by Boris Levitt, the owner of Renaissance Furniture Restoration in San Francisco, claims that Yelp’s “unfair and unethical conduct in promoting, marketing and advertising its website as maintaining unbiased reviews” is [...] [...more]
Information is coming in three-year copyright battle that is “potentially embarrassing” to both sides, sources say. Originally posted at Media [...] [...more]
A few days ago we wrote about Mel Sampat, a member of the Windows Phone 7 development team who had chosen to leave the team to pursue his own endeavors, part of which included making third-party apps for the very platform he helped make. You might assume that his history with the platform would make [...] [...more]
Industry group is launching a $30 million campaign touting video-on-demand that comes as Internet services make gains with viewers. Originally [...] [...more]
If you can’t tell your Belt of Orion from your Little Dipper, Microsoft is here to help. Today it added its WorldWide Telescope application to Bing Maps. The application let’s you look up at the sky from a street view level in a map and see the stars and planets conveniently identified by [...] [...more]
The Alex ereader is out and I got to look at it today for a few minutes. The top part is a real epaper screen and the bottom part is essentially a small Android MID. The device has Wi-Fi and is available now for $399, shipping in May. The company had a few interesting points about [...] [...more]
As we noted a couple days ago, the so-called “Location War” was essentially an even match throughout the first few days of the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. The services were in a dead-heat when it came to check-ins through Sunday, based on data we’d seen. But when it comes to tweets from the respective [...] [...more]
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