Group deals service Groupon has delayed its plans for an initial public offering due to stock market volatility, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Groupon, which was originally planning to go public after the Labor Day holiday, still has …
Insurance technology software company Guidewire Software filed an initial public offering that aims to raise about $100 million, the company announced Tuesday.
Guidewire offers software solutions for insurance companies that provide property, workers’ compensation and casualty insurance to its customers. …
TV and movie watching social network Miso just made it easier for DirecTV customers to share their viewing habits with friends.
The company announced a partnership with DirecTV Thursday that will allow its users to easily find and share what …
In yet another example of how tablet computing is drastically changing the consumer landscape, online retail store giant Amazon is testing a new website design geared toward tablet users, reports The Next Web.
The new design could be in response …
Video advertising platform Innovid has raised a new $9.5 million round of funding, the company announced Wednesday.
Innovid’s iRoll ad service embeds interactive elements in pre-roll video ads to make them dynamic and engaging to an audience. The company also …
Fans of Hewlett-Packard’s ill-fated TouchPad tablet might want to hold off on lamenting its death.
HP’s TouchPad, which was shuttered just months after its initial debut, could return if the company spins off its personal computing division into a stand-alone …
Austrian blogger/developer Florian Rohrweck, who discovered unreleased Google+ features by exploring the source code, was hired by the company, Rohrweck announced on his blog Monday.
Rohrweck is credited as discovering many Google products that prior to an official announcement, including …
Founders of popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay are launching a new file-hosting service called BayFiles, reports TorrentFreak.
Much like file-sharing services RapidShare and Megaupload, BayFiles works lets users upload files to its servers and easily share them online. That’s …
Teachers in Missouri were granted a preliminary injunction today over a new law that bans direct social networking contact between teachers and students.
The new law, which went into effect August 28, prohibits teachers from becoming friends with their students …
Samsung is getting ready to launch a new mobile messaging service called ChatON.
The app is essentially a group chat app that combines texts, images and video messaging from Samsung’s Bada OS, iOS, Android and BlackBerry.
But with the multitude …
Social network giant Facebook announced that it will shut down its daily online deals product (called Facebook Deals), reports Reuters.
The company launched Facebook Deals about four months ago in five major U.S. cities. The product, which offered online discounts …
A handful of articles this morning argued against the validity of a recently released DoubleClick AdPlanner report showing Facebook reached a trillion page views in June. Both CNN and TG Daily cite contrary data obtained by digital measurement firm comScore, …
Google has added the ability to ignore specific user accounts and strengthened its option to block accounts on its new social network Google+, the company announced in a note Friday.
The new ignore feature should help calm down the often …
Streaming music provider Pandora posted a 117 percent increase in revenue for a record $67 million after its first quarter as a publicly traded company, Pandora Media Inc. reported Thursday.
Pandora’s popular online radio service groups music into customized radio …
Reaffirming its strategy to evolve the Xbox 360 into an all-in-one entertainment device, Microsoft debuted an update to its Xbox Live ESPN sports offering Thursday.
The new ESPN on Xbox Live channel adds a number of new or updated features, …
Location-based social network Gowalla is trimming its feature set to improve the overall user experience, according to Gowalla founder and CEO Josh Williams, who made the announcement in a blog post Thursday.
The company will eliminate the use of virtual …
Music discovery company SoundHound has formed a partnership with streaming music service provider Spotify that will allow European SoundHound users to instantly access Spotify’s catalog of 15 million tracks, the company announced Thursday.
Much like its rival Shazam, SoundHound’s free …
Online voice and video communication service Skype recently opened a new directory site for third-party applications.
The directory will help raise awarenesss of apps using Skype’s API. However, it also represents a shift in the company’s relationship with its developer …
Social network giant Facebook brought in 870 million unique visitors and a trillion page views in June, according to an updated list of the top 1,000 most-visited sites on the web released Tuesday by Google subsidiary DoubleClick.
Between clicking through …
Revenue performance management (RPM) software company Eloqua Limited Wednesday filed an initial public offering estimated at $100 million.
Eloqua’s RPM software solution is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides its clients with analytics to help predict revenue performance by tracking …
