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Verve Wireless Acquires Mobile Ad Company Deconstruct Media

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 2, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Verve Wireless, which helps create smartphone applications for newspapers and other publications, has acquired Deconstruct Media, a mobile advertising technology company.

When It Wasn't Stuffing Cars, EMC Was Doing Real Business

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 19, 2011 at 6:56 pm PT

Aside from producing oddly funny onstage stunts, storage company EMC launched 41 new enterprise products at its New York event yesterday.

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Early Adopter: Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 14, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

It’s a fine line between keeping your potholes filled and walls graffiti free and being a civic tattletale. Civic nuisance reporting app SeeClickFix lets you toe the line, and just got another $1.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech and Omidyar to help users keep at it.

Trying Out a Revamped Myspace

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 21, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT

Katie reviews the revamped Myspace, with its focus on topics in popular culture, including television, music, movies, celebrities and comedy.

Susan Wojcicki, Google SVP and Advertising Chief, Live at Dive Into Mobile

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 7, 2010 at 8:25 am PT

You’d have to search a long time to find someone who’s been closer to the evolution of Google than Susan Wojcicki. It was in her rented garage that Sergey Brin and Larry Page launched the company, which she joined in 1999. Now, as one of only eight senior vice presidents, she runs Google’s most important businesses units.

Here Comes the Yahoo Spin Cycle–So Try BoomTown's Soap-Free Guide to What's Actually Happening

Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 12:53 am PT

Here’s how Yahoo’s top brass and board–with the help of its newly re-engaged crisis-management PR firm, Abernathy MacGregor–are already trying to spin the latest executive turmoil to hit the company: Trashing those on the way out, to take focus off those remaining who have been just as responsible for driving the Internet icon, and claiming that this is all part of yet another well-planned reorganization at Yahoo. Don’t believe most of it for a second. Some of it is corporate politics as usual, some of it rejiggering of events, some just not true at all.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “I Have a Special Spot for Apple in My Heart”

Peter Kafka in Media on January 21, 2010 at 1:46 pm PT

Eric Schmidt’s tender feelings for Apple won’t stop Google from competing directly with Apple’s iPhone: The company spent much of the time on its Q4 earnings call discussing its large mobile ambitions–without talking about specifics, of course. Meanwhile, the search giant posted a big jump in quarterly revenue. But not enough for twitchy investors, who are pushing shares down in after-hours trading.

New From Google Labs: Google Plutocrat

John Paczkowski in News on October 15, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

The broader advertising recovery may take time, but search advertising is clearly beating a hasty path back toward normalcy. Or it is in Google’s case anyway. Reporting third-quarter results after market close Thursday, the search giant posted revenue of $5.94 billion, an increase of seven percent compared to the third quarter of 2008.