The New York Times reports on the Wikipedia Foundation’s plans to double its staff with 44 new employees and back them with $20 million in fundraising in the next year.
The key passage in the Times’ story is this: “Wikipedia …
Google-owned YouTube has announced a $5 million fund called YouTube Partner Grants that will identify and reward promising online clip makers.
“We’re starting with proven partners, partners with the most views,” YouTube bizdev guy George Strompolos told AdAge. “We’ll be …
VeriSign is one step closer to losing a big court case that will affect the future of dot-com domain prices.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied VeriSign’s motion for a rehearing of its case with Coalition for ICANN …
Sports is one of the biggest topics on Twitter, yet until Univision began hosting the World Cup soccer championships online for free, many people seem to have been unaware of high-bandwidth sports services like ESPN3, MLB.TV, and NBCSports.com.
Sofanatics is …
Jeff Herzog founded Internet marketing firm iCrossing in 1998 and turned his fervor for search engine marketing into a company that the Hearst Corporation bought for more than $325 million in a deal that closed earlier this year.
For the …
Zivity founder Cyan Banister (that’s not her in the photo, that’s Zivity model Vivka) based her startup on a simple premise: Some women really like to pose for the camera in varying states of undress. Banister’s unique skill is in …
Dow Jones LP Source, an industry database that tracks private equity fundraising, says venture funds are still down from 2008, when they raised $14.2 billion during the first half of that year.
But things are turning around for VCs. A …
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YouTube has removed the second trailer for upcoming movie The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s telling of the Facebook founders’ story. YouTube’s page says the video was removed because of a copyright claim by Sony Pictures. We’re embedding a copy …
Thank the higher power of your choice for the fiercely aggressive, competitive nature of the engineers working on both Apple’s Safari browser and Android’s open-source alternative. Not only have coders done a great job of supporting as much Web content …
AdAge reported on last week’s Google press event, where vice president of product management Neal Mohan explained how the company plans to extend its advertising empire beyond search keywords.
Google will be trying ways to serve more display ads — …
Ann Arbor-based Borders Group this morning announced the launch of the Borders e-book store.
Built atop existing e-book store Kobo, the store carries a catalog of 1.5 million books that can be read on a PC, a Mac, an Android …
A week after a report by Facebook investor Elevation Partners pegged the social network’s value at $23 billion, a report by pre-IPO analysts Next Up Research has reached only half that amount. Even so, the report says a lot for …
In the middle of a starstruck interview by a reporter for London’s Daily Mirror, the artist currently known as Prince launched into a short, punchy tirade against Internet music distribution.
Prince, in case you haven’t followed him lately, has shut …
In April, Idealab founder Bill Gross launched a new startup called TweetUp. The new company would, he said, provide a way for publishers to include ranked tweets on their sites, as well as ads in the form of sponsored tweets. …
AppStoreHQ founder Chris DeVore, whose site tracks apps for Android, iPhone, iPad and HTML5 by crawling their respective app stores, created an eye-opening Venn diagram of how app developers for iOS (the iPhone/iPad operating system) and Android are clustered.
DeVore …
Update: Boy Genius Report has updated its post, most importantly saying that BGR’s original post this morning misattributed words written by “Tom” as written by Steve Jobs, including the dubious “Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone.” …
A total of 79 mergers and acquisitions raised $4.3 billion in the second quarter of 2010, according to a report by Dow Jones VentureSource. That’s a slight 4 percent drop from last year’s report. Overall, this year is slightly up, …
There were 15 or 17 venture-backed initial public offerings in the second quarter of 2010, depending on who’s counting. That’s the most since 2007. But both Dow Jones VentureSource and the National Venture Capital Association, which issued reports on the …
The latest monthly report from mobile ad network Millennial Media says advertisers spent 85% more on interactive “rich media” mobile ads in May than in April. The report doesn’t offer much detail as to why the sudden extra kick in …
According to an SEC filing, Yahoo’s board of directors has approved a stock buyback program that will pay cash for up to three billion dollars’ worth of shares over the next three years. The repurchases may take place on the …
