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German Media Giant Burda Buys 25% Stake In XING

Nov 18, 2009 1:19 AM

BREAKING: German media giant Burda has used its digital arm to purchase a 25.1% share in XING, the business social network that is biggest in Germany and competes with LinkedIn. The 1,323,041 share...

The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon

Nov 17, 2009 11:38 PM

The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real. The next “super” Android device will almo...

Opera Mobile 10 Beta Now Available For Windows Mobile Phones, Too

Nov 17, 2009 10:55 PM

About two weeks after debuting the latest beta build of Opera Mobile for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 smartphones, Norwegian software maker Opera is bringing the latest beta version of its custom mo...

TypePad Dives Into Micro-Blogging With An Important New Feature: Free

Nov 17, 2009 10:09 PM

I don’t recall ever paying for a TypePad blog, but apparently I did. I learned this today when I logged in for the first time in years to see that the site I had set up in 2005 was deactivated beca...

Daily Endeavor Launches A Crowdsourced Guide To Jobs

Nov 17, 2009 9:30 PM

Career related sites like Monster and others are meant for people who are looking for a specific type of job or area. But what if you don’t know what career or job opportunity you want to pursue?...

Digg CEO Adelson: “I Don’t Think People Expect To Pay For News Any More”

Nov 17, 2009 9:08 PM

This afternoon Digg CEO Jay Adelson was interviewed on Fox Business News, where he spoke about the future of Digg and the ways it could potentially cooperate with strugging news organizations. Du...

LiveOffice: Email Archiving In The Cloud

Nov 17, 2009 4:49 PM

Thinking about moving your electronic services to the cloud? LiveOffice, an SaaS provider of email archiving and hosting, makes the leap that much easier with the release of their CloudMerge techno...

Shakira’s Stats Don’t Lie: Facebook/Ustream Music Video Debut Is A Hit

Nov 17, 2009 3:06 PM

Last week we reported on Shakira’s decision to use Ustream and Facebook to live stream the debut of her latest music video, Give It Up To Me — a move that’s a fairly huge departure from the standar...

Intel Capital Invests In Cloud Computing Pioneer Joyent

Nov 17, 2009 2:32 PM

Joyent, the Californian provider of cloud computing solutions – although they like to refer to that as delivering “web application hosting Infrastructure as a Service” – today announced that it rai...

Google Holding Chrome OS Event Thursday. Complete Overview And Launch Plans To Be Revealed.

Nov 17, 2009 2:13 PM

Google is planning to hold a special Chrome OS event at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA this Thursday morning, we’ve just been notified. The plan is to give some technical background informat...

Mystery Of Droid Autofocus Conspiracy Solved (For Reals This Time)

Nov 17, 2009 1:33 PM

The problem: users have complained about the autofocus feature on the Droid since day one. As in, it didn’t work (video). Last night I wrote that some users found a fix – clean the lens. It turns o...

Over A Year After Android Launch, ShopSavvy Finally Comes To The iPhone

Nov 17, 2009 11:45 AM

ShopSavvy was one of the best early Android applications. It launched in October of last year after winning one of the initial Android Developer Challenge top prizes (when it was still known as GoC...

DocuSign Raises $2 Million For E-Signature Software

Nov 17, 2009 11:32 AM

DocuSign, an e-signature service, has raised $2 million from Second Century Ventures. The venture firm is the investment fund of the National Association of Realtors. This brings DocuSign’s total ...

Online Subscription Billing Is A Pain. Recurly Wants To Alleviate It.

Nov 17, 2009 11:00 AM

Most startups have about a billion things to worry about. For many of them, this includes execution of their business model. With online ad networks depressed, increasingly, a number of those compa...

The Post Transaction Marketing Wall Of Shame: Hundreds Of Well Known Ecommerce Sites Rip Off Customers

Nov 17, 2009 9:21 AM

Later today Senator Rockefeller is holding a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation full committee hearing on Aggressive Sales Tactics on the Internet and their Impact on A...