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Websense Explores Sale of Company

Anupreeta Das and Dennis K. Berman, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 16, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT

Web security software company Websense Inc. is exploring a sale with the aid of investment bank Qatalyst Partners, people familiar with the matter said. San Diego-based Websense has a market capitalization of $826 million and could fetch around $1 billion in a sale, these people said.

Cooliris Raises $9.6M, Gets Social With Mobile Photo-Sharing App

Liz Gannes in Social on February 14, 2011 at 2:00 am PT

Cooliris, which makes tools to help people consume media on the Web and various devices, is changing focus with a new flagship product that’s about sharing photos rather than browsing.

Facebook Adds More Group Control, Data Export, App Dashboard

John Paczkowski in News on October 6, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

In the end, it wasn’t a revamped Events service that Facebook announced at its invite-only media event today. It wasn’t a “check-in” feature, a new iteration of Facebook Credits, a partnership with Skype or a showing of “The Social Network” with a frame-by-frame refutation by Mark Zuckerberg. In the end, it was a series of service enhancements–three, to be exact.

Filtering Junk Mail and Buying Laptops

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on December 2, 2009 at 5:32 pm PT

The columnist answers questions about filtering junk mail from the iPhone and buying a laptop for a middle school student.

Facebook’s New Privacy Policy: Share Everything With Everyone!

Peter Kafka in Media on July 1, 2009 at 11:44 am PT

Are you one of those Facebook users who worries that your boss will see photos of what you did last weekend? Then you’ll like Facebook’s new privacy policy. But if you’re part of the large group of people who think that nothing is really private on the Web and that everyone should see everything you do online, then you’re really going to like Facebook’s new privacy policy.

An Indie Label Sounds Off: Why We Don’t Love Grooveshark

Peter Kafka in Media on June 18, 2009 at 4:39 am PT

When a big music label sues a scrappy Web music start-up, most people tend to sympathize reflexively with the little guy. But not everyone. Here’s the case against Grooveshark–not from EMI, which has hauled them into court, but from an indie that by all rights ought to be working with Grooveshark: “The service is just ripping off the band.”