Mobile voice network operator Virgin Mobile USA has finished absorbing rival Helio — We heard a rumor, more than once, that “massive firings” were being considered, but Virgin Mobile tells us that this won’t happen. Instead, some employees have been “rebadged” to work at its IT partner, IBM.
Amazon is developing a student version of electronic [...]
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Adisn is the latest social data-using ad company to raise venture funding — $1.6 million, from Battery Ventures and angel investors, according to VentureWire. The Long Beach, Calif. company says it is aggregating and analyzing “web conversations,” online profiles, blogs, and user behavior to spot the most meaningful relationships between millions of “seemingly unrelated [...]
Third party application developers on MySpace just got more guidance on what will happen if they abuse its users: An escalating series of warnings and punishments, ending in a full ban from the platform.
Clarifying punishment for abuse is a necessary step that a social network — or any company with a platform — must take [...]
Facebook is rolling out a way to comment on ads that appear within the site, according to an interview with Tim Kendall, Facebook’s director of monetization, by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang. More generally, Facebook has increased the number of ad products that it’s experimenting with, as it works to make itself a multi-billion dollar [...]
Facebook is planning to launch a new version of its iPhone application in September that will make the app more like the newly-redesigned web site. So, the deeper rationale for the web site redesign, perhaps, was to make it easier to replicate on mobile applications like this one. Meaning that Facebook’s web users will first [...]
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Yeah. I know. It’s a slow day today. Anyway, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — a nonprofit religious organization that may have up to $30 billion in wide-ranging assets — is trying to buy Facebook. That’s what Zach Klein, the co-founder of video site Vimeo, now employed at comedy site CollegeHumor, [...]
Latin America is one of the more promising areas for mobile phone usage. Three of its largest economies — Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela — are also the fastest to adopt the mobile web, according to a new report by browser-maker Opera.
Google is the most visited site in Latin America, followed by regionally popular social networks [...]
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Study: Educated older people still get most of their news from television — The “educated” demographic, 23 percent of the U.S. population, also gets news online, according to a buzzword-laden report by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. This demographic is called “Integrators,” according to the language of [...]
Instead of almost accidentally bicycling over Facebook employees whenever I go to downtown Palo Alto, now I’ll get to do that a mile and a half further south in the city. The company is moving most of its offices to the former HP office building near California Avenue, The Palo Alto Daily reports. California Avenue [...]
Friendster, the social network that’s big in Asia, has launched an OpenSocial version of its nine month old developer platform. This means any application that is already built to the OpenSocial social network developer platform specifications will now more easily work on Friendster; various versions of OpenSocial are already in place on MySpace, hi5, Orkut, [...]
Out of all the tech sectors in the Bay Area, relatively more web companies that raised funding last quarter also saw their valuations rise, according to data analyzed by technology-focused law firm Fenwick & West. Cleantech companies that received backing came in second in terms of obtaining higher valuations, while life science and enterprise startups [...]
Google is launching a new web site called Free the Airwaves, to publicly encourage the Federal Communications Commission to deregulate “white space,” or tiny fractions of available bandwidths between broadcast TV channels in the 50 MHz to 700 MHz spectrum band range. New hardware devices and software services could use these airwaves to offer [...]
Google’s much anticipated Android mobile phone operating system, due to launch within the next few weeks, may actually be much more than a mobile OS. Industry sources tell us that although Android will indeed start as a mobile OS, Google intends to expand it to be a sort of universal operating system that will span [...]
Today, Republican presidential candidate John McCain is introducing a tech agenda that differs from Democrat Barack Obama’s on “net neutrality” laws but has similar viewpoints on tax breaks, high-tech labor laws and other hot tech policy issues. Obama made his sweep through Silicon Valley last year, connecting with top entrepreneurs like Marc Andreessen, and [...]
Media6Degrees is the latest company to try to target ads for major brands using the “social graph” of your friend relationships on social networks and other sites. The New York company is in private beta judging by the lack of information on its site about the product itself. The company says it has “patent-pending algorithms [...]
Hi5 has had a growth spurt over the first half of this year, growing from 31 million to 56 million monthly active users over the first six months of the year. Like its still-larger rivals Facebook and MySpace, it has been hiring lots of senior leaders, especially on on the business side. Before the [...]
I’m already a pretty big fan of the Facebook redesign, because it helps me quickly find out what my friends who don’t use other online social services are up to. My favorite part has been the tabbed news feeds, which let you sort based on things like photos, and shared links from around the web.
That [...]
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