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SurveyMonkey Buys Online Forms Start-Up Wufoo for $35 Million

Kara Swisher in News on April 25, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

SurveyMonkey, the quiet but profitable and fast-growing Web survey company, is buying online forms start-up Wufoo. While the terms of the transaction for the Tampa, Fla.-based Infinity Box–makers of Wufoo–were not disclosed, sources said the price was $35 million in cash and stock.

Nation's Capital Bets Online Poker Is Lawful

Alexandra Berzon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 8, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Washington, D.C., is poised to become the first place in the U.S. to allow online poker, challenging the federal government’s effective ban on the practice in its own backyard. The city council approved a budget last year allowing the district’s lottery to operate a poker website accessible only inside district boundaries. City officials say the [...]

States Make Play for Web Gambling

Alexandra Berzon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 2, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Efforts to legalize online gambling in the U.S. are moving to the states as lawmakers roll the dice on bills that aim to steer around federal laws effectively prohibiting Internet wagering.

When You Wish Upon a Week Off (and Yet Here I Am at Disney World)

Kara Swisher in News on December 27, 2010 at 12:41 am PT

To say BoomTown is not a person who likes to hear when I arrive at a vacation spot, “Have a magical day,” is an understatement. Yet, here I am for the rest of the week at Disney World in Florida. So, for the next few days, it’s a small world after all, instead of just a smaller Yahoo via layoffs and exec departures.

Shopkick Checks In With Target–CEO Cyriac Roeding Talks About Social Shopping

Kara Swisher in News on November 16, 2010 at 10:28 am PT

The idea of being rewarded for being a consumer is getting a lot of heat of late, as retailers seek to take advantage of the fast-moving social phenom among consumers, especially young ones. Thus, a wide range of efforts to combine location-based mobile apps with purchasing, both online and offline. Today, another company in the space, shopkick, announced it had added another store–Minneapolis-based Target–to its list of retailers deploying its platform and mobile app that gives you points for simply walking in a store.

New Library Technologies Dispense With Librarians

Conor Dougherty, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 25, 2010 at 6:45 am PT

Hugo MN–In this suburb of St. Paul, the new library branch has no librarians, no card catalog and no comfortable chairs in which to curl up and read. Instead, the Library Express is a stack of metal lockers outside city hall. When patrons want a book or DVD, they order it online and pick it up from a digitally locked, glove-compartment- sized cubby a few days later. It’s a library as conceived by the Amazon.com generation.

ATD Welcomes Ina Fried as Our New Mobile Reporter

Kara Swisher in News on October 19, 2010 at 5:59 pm PT

Here at All Things Digital, we’ve always prided ourselves on our journalism efforts, while also fully embracing the fast-paced new world of blogging. So, we could not be more thrilled to announce the hiring of Ina Fried as a new reporter and blogger, covering the critically important mobile beat. Make no mistake: Mobile is a beat that reaches across companies and is at the dead center of Web 3.0. Ina is one of several new journalists we will be announcing over the next week, part of an expansion of the ATD universe.

ATD Welcomes Ina Fried as Our New Mobile Reporter

Kara Swisher in Mobile on October 19, 2010 at 5:59 pm PT

Here at All Things Digital, we’ve always prided ourselves on our journalism efforts, while also fully embracing the fast-paced new world of blogging. So, we could not be more thrilled to announce the hiring of Ina Fried as a new reporter and blogger, covering the critically important mobile beat. Make no mistake: Mobile is a beat that reaches across companies and is at the dead center of Web 3.0. Ina is one of several new journalists we will be announcing over the next week, part of an expansion of the ATD universe.

Viral Video: John Mayer Channels LeBron James

Kara Swisher in News on July 12, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

Oh, that scamp John Mayer is such a jokester. Here’s a video the singer did in the wake of all the controversy around the basketball star choosing Miami to play for and leaving behind a dejected and angry Cleveland. Big surprise, given his promiscuous reputation: Mayer will play for everyone.

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