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Amazon To Acquire AbeBooks, And With It A Stake In Library Thing
01 Aug 15:49
Amazon has acquired twelve year old Canadian company Abebooks (formerly the Advanced Book Exchange), the companies just announced. AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books focusing on used, rare and out of print titles for sale by independent booksellers - it currently has 110 million books for sale from 13,500 sellers. The company has been around [...]
Amazon has acquired twelve year old Canadian company Abebooks (formerly the Advanced Book Exchange), the companies just announced. AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books focusing on used, rare and out of print titles for sale by independent booksellers - it currently has 110 million books for sale from 13,500 sellers. The company has been around [...]
The Reports of Usenets Death are Greatly Exaggerated
01 Aug 15:18
Sascha at PCMag writes a charming little piece on the death of Usenet as a method of discourse and its eventual rebirth as a repository for porn, spam, and pirated warez. He recalls the days of serious conversations on 8-bit Atari architecture and the rise and fall of net.manners as more and more n00bs came [...]
Sascha at PCMag writes a charming little piece on the death of Usenet as a method of discourse and its eventual rebirth as a repository for porn, spam, and pirated warez. He recalls the days of serious conversations on 8-bit Atari architecture and the rise and fall of net.manners as more and more n00bs came [...]
Skyfire Brings Full Browser Experience To Nokia S60 Phones (200 Private Beta Invites)
01 Aug 14:39
Throw out that WAP browser on your cell phone. We are quickly approaching a point where a full browser experience is available on our mobile devices. And it is not just the iPhone. A startup called Skyfire is in some respect even further along than Apple in bringing the entire Web to [...]
Throw out that WAP browser on your cell phone. We are quickly approaching a point where a full browser experience is available on our mobile devices. And it is not just the iPhone. A startup called Skyfire is in some respect even further along than Apple in bringing the entire Web to [...]
Yahoo Turns Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey Apps On In Search
01 Aug 04:31
Yahoo is making a number of changes to its default search experience tonight to add more structured data to results. Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey widgets are being added to search results automatically, eliminating the need for users to go into the search gallery and add them manually. SearchMonkey is a key part of Yahoos [...]
Yahoo is making a number of changes to its default search experience tonight to add more structured data to results. Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey widgets are being added to search results automatically, eliminating the need for users to go into the search gallery and add them manually. SearchMonkey is a key part of Yahoos [...]
Tethering Briefly Comes To The iPhone, Tempers Flare
01 Aug 03:13
Macrumors reports that Apples App Store was selling a tethering app compatible with the iPhone (both 3G and EDGE) for a brief period earlier this evening. The $10 application, called NetShare, was developed by Nullriver software, and would be a godsend for many iPhone owners. After going up around 8PM EST to the [...]
Macrumors reports that Apples App Store was selling a tethering app compatible with the iPhone (both 3G and EDGE) for a brief period earlier this evening. The $10 application, called NetShare, was developed by Nullriver software, and would be a godsend for many iPhone owners. After going up around 8PM EST to the [...]
Analysts: EDF Ventures deal terms arent that harsh
21 Aug 21:20
In the wake of EDF Ventures subpoena demanding information about one of its critics on controversial VC-rating site TheFunded, more scathing commentary about the Ann Arbor, Michigan firm has come to light. For example, the commenter targeted by EDF says the firm has very harsh deal terms. But does that criticism hold any water? Not [...]
In the wake of EDF Ventures subpoena demanding information about one of its critics on controversial VC-rating site TheFunded, more scathing commentary about the Ann Arbor, Michigan firm has come to light. For example, the commenter targeted by EDF says the firm has very harsh deal terms. But does that criticism hold any water? Not [...]
Facebook adds more social features to ads
21 Aug 21:04
Facebook is rolling out a way to comment on ads that appear within the site, according to an interview with Tim Kendall, Facebooks director of monetization, by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang. More generally, Facebook has increased the number of ad products that its experimenting with, as it works to make itself a multi-billion dollar [...]
Facebook is rolling out a way to comment on ads that appear within the site, according to an interview with Tim Kendall, Facebooks director of monetization, by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang. More generally, Facebook has increased the number of ad products that its experimenting with, as it works to make itself a multi-billion dollar [...]
ESPN and MLB team up for a digital double play
21 Aug 20:51
Baseball, while still Americas past time, is no longer its most popular sport. (That would be NFL football.) So it makes sense that the keepers of the game attempt to branch out as fully as possible to lure in new fans and inspire excitement in young people about playing the game again. As such, Major [...]
Baseball, while still Americas past time, is no longer its most popular sport. (That would be NFL football.) So it makes sense that the keepers of the game attempt to branch out as fully as possible to lure in new fans and inspire excitement in young people about playing the game again. As such, Major [...]
In Russia, iPhone buys you (soon)
21 Aug 19:40
Apple is continuing its push for global expansion of the iPhone. The latest country that will be getting the device looks to be Russia. Apple has agreed to a deal with Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), according to Reuters. Normally, an agreement between Apple and a carrier is reached then it takes a while for the country to [...]
Apple is continuing its push for global expansion of the iPhone. The latest country that will be getting the device looks to be Russia. Apple has agreed to a deal with Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), according to Reuters. Normally, an agreement between Apple and a carrier is reached then it takes a while for the country to [...]
Indias VC investment sees second-highest quarter on record
21 Aug 19:21
Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April and June, VCs invested a total of $238 million in 17 deals, up 120 percent from the $108 million invested during the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. That makes it the second-highest quarter in VentureSources records. The [...]
Venture capital investment in India grew impressively during the second quarter of 2008. Between April and June, VCs invested a total of $238 million in 17 deals, up 120 percent from the $108 million invested during the same period last year, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. That makes it the second-highest quarter in VentureSources records. The [...]
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