Mike Isaac in Social on May 9 at 1:54 pm PT
In a potential boon to its platform, Facebook unveils plans for a centralized app store.
Kara Swisher in News on March 14 at 8:04 am PT
There’s always yet another wacky money-making scheme on the horizon at Yahoo!
Kara Swisher in Media on May 9, 2011 at 6:29 am PT
Last week, after he turned in better-than-expected earnings and tried to explain to a worried Wall Street how the search algorithm changes at Google, called Panda, were significant but not devastating to his business, BoomTown had a short phone interview with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt.
Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 5:20 pm PT
Today, BoomTown braved the floods and skippered
All Things Digital‘s S.S. Minnow through a Noah-like rainstorm in Silicon Valley to visit offices of Pulse.
Less than a year ago, the nifty visual news-reading app was publicly praised by Apple’s Steve Jobs for innovativeness and slapped by the New York Times for misusing its RSS feed on the same day.
Dramatic, for sure, but they have made nice with the Times since then and have also raised more than $1 million in funding and grown to three million users since then.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
In an interview, Microsoft phone unit President Andy Lees walks through the changes that Redmond plans to make to bolster Windows Phone 7.
Improvements coming later this year include Twitter integration, a better browser and the ability to do more things at once.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 10, 2011 at 12:07 pm PT
Facebook announced this week it will begin enforcing a policy that requires app developers to run advertising from a list of approved providers. The list does not include Google’s AdSense and DoubleClick.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 13, 2011 at 7:11 am PT
Mobilized is in Beantown Thursday to hear Research In Motion talk about its plans for the enterprise. The event, at the Marriott Copley Place downtown, kicked off around 10 am ET. Here are the highlights.
Kara Swisher in News on January 12, 2011 at 9:10 am PT
AOL’s strategy to partner with third-party content creators for original programming–especially premium video content–keeps ticking, with another programming partnership with Endemol USA.
The New York-based Internet company said it would “co-develop and co-produce new Web programming initially aimed at AOL’s growing women’s audience” with Endemol, makers of such fine television shows as “Jerseylicious.”
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on December 29, 2010 at 2:50 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on just how safe are Wi-Fi hotspots and should Mac owners worry about computer viruses.
