Amid “reinvention”, AOL snaps up Sphere

Amid “reinvention”, AOL snaps up Sphere

AOL has purchased the blogging search and relevancy engine Sphere. Chief executive Tony Conrad has confirmed the deal to us and lays out some of the details in an official post on Sphere Blog. Conrad declined to state the terms of the deal, but TechCrunch… Continue Reading

VentureBeat is back

VentureBeat is back

We launched early yesterday morning, but an overwhelming spike in traffic, a subsequent server crash and no fallback combined to shut down the Web site for a whole day.
We’ve learned some lessons.

1) It is hard to launch a start-up. It is surreal to be… Continue Reading