In the mid-1990s, technologist David Warthen (right) founded the quirky search engine Ask Jeeves, which used natural language search technology to guide users to one shining answer for whatever they wanted. Ask Jeeves was one of the dot-com era’s successful …
Third-party search engines are starting to index some of the new real-time Facebook data unveiled last week.
OneRiot, a real-time search engine that raised $27 million in venture capital, has started indexing “likes” that are publicly shared on Facebook. It …
Ben Kaufman is known as the guy behind Mophie, the Burlington, Vermont-based iPhone accessory maker that claimed $1 million in revenue in 2006.
But as he learned more and more from firsthand visits to outsourced manufacturers in China, Kaufman realized …
We were lucky enough this morning to sit down with Kai-Fu Lee, one of the most prominent figures in the Chinese internet universe. Known best and most recently for serving as the founding president of Google China, he also led …
Social gaming giant Zynga has grabbed MySpace’s vice president of global communications, Dani Dudeck, to shore up its public relations department.
The company, which has attracted bad press before for serving users misleading offers in games and for comments made …
Nokia sells more handsets worldwide — nearly half a billion in 2009 — than top competitors Samsung, LG and Motorola put together. You could throw in fifth-ranked Sony Ericsson and Nokia would still be close to beating the bunch with …
Facebook is feeling some political heat for its moves last week, after launching a program that “instantly personalizes” websites for visitors by automatically sharing user data with the site owner.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote a letter to chief executive …
Social media startup HootSuite is introducing changes to its popular URL shortener Ow.ly — commonly used on Twitter, Facebook and other sharing sites — to make its brand less invasive. On top of that, it says it will soon sell …
Zong, a mobile payments startup that helps social gamers buy virtual goods, raised $15 million from Matrix Partners. The company, which started off as a division of Echovox and rode the wave of the booming virtual-goods industry, has now spun-off …
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Would you like to ask John Battelle, author of “The Search” and founder of Federated Media Publishing, a question? If so, Thursday, April 29 is your chance.
HP’s Input|Output is a series of interviews with some of the smartest people …
Aaron Patzer, the founder of personal finance startup Mint, made a slight jab at beleaguered Blippy today. Blippy is a startup that lets people share details of purchases they’ve made with their friends, and it recently came under fire after …
One of the original pioneers in streaming music is still making waves.
Rhapsody released a new version of its iPhone app that allows people to wirelessly download playlists to their iPhones, iPods or iPads and listening to them whenever — …
OpenSky, an e-commerce startup from veteran New York entrepreneurs, raised $6 million in a second round led by Highland Capital Partners and Canaan Partners. The round brings the company’s total funding to about $11 million.
The company helps bloggers monetize …
Just a few days after Facebook unveiled a number of plug-ins that spread its social features across the web, the neat mash-ups are starting to appear.
LikeButton.me takes Facebook’s activity feed plug-in, which shows what your friends “like” on other …
On Friday, we reported that Blippy, a social network for shoppers cofounded by FuckedCompany and AdBrite founder Philip “Pud” Kaplan, had accidentally published some of its members’ credit-card numbers into Google. Kaplan was quick to respond. “It’s a lot less …
Facebook has reignited the openness debate by launching tools this week that may reshape the web and hand the company a big advantage over its competitors.
The word “open” — like “green” or “eco-conscious” — is one of the more …
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A recent email sent by Fusion Garage to customers of its Joojoo tablets (via Uneasy Silence) tells us two things: One, the company apparently doesn’t know how to properly use the BCC field to hide email addresses, and two, …
Moscow-based Digital Sky Technologies has come out of nowhere to become the investment firm du jour, beating out other investors to win the hands of Facebook, Zynga and Groupon in the past year.
The firm bought $200 million in Facebook …
Facebook announced this week that it will be launching its Facebook Credits virtual currency in June so that people can spend real money on virtual goods in games and other apps on the social network.
That doesn’t sit well with …
Recently, the German film production company Constantin Film AG began issuing takedown notices to people who had posted re-subtitled clips from Constantin’s copyrighted movie Der Untergang, known to Americans as “Downfall.”
In an Internet meme that began years ago but …
