Oh, Reddit, you incorrigible band of do-gooders with an insatiable urge to better society through the power of upgoats. Although you may have noticed a spate of false charity in r/atheism yesterday, the ability of Reddit to act as a force of […]
Before we get into it, what you need to know is that this exchange is part of the brewing controversy surrounding Regretsy’s aborted initiative to purchase toys for needy kids. “You can use the donate button to raise money for […]
Facebook has checked in at Foursquare competitor Gowalla, consuming the location based app and rolling the Gowalla team into its own, both Facebook and Gowalla have confirmed. Although it sported a more complex and visually engaging user interface than Foursquare, […]
I’ve never understood the blindness of companies that lets them do stuff like Carrier IQ is doing, especially in this day and age of almost instant information. For those that might have been hiding under a rock in the past […]
Four new media journalists were arrested this week while attending a civic education meeting in western Zimbabwe. According to officials the digital journalists were involved in an illegal political gathering. In a statement from the Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe the […]
A new report is circulating in which Yahoo employees are said to be ready to jump ship as morale at the company hits an all-time low amid acquisition bids and talks of a minority stake sale in the organization. In […]
Yahoo! Inc., has been exploring their various acquisition and strategic content development options for months and now the company is being sued by a group of shareholders who simply want the company to grab the best possible price […]
Yahoo is continuing to trim the fat on the content development side of their business announcing plans to shut down four of its entertainment based websites. On the chopping block are TV blogs The Projector and The Set, music […]
If you avidly use Groupon, there are probably some deals you’ve avoided because they just look way too good to be true. 82% off something not clearly defined. $25 for $50 worth of food at a restaurant notorious for add-ons. […]
This year, AOL has seen a lot of big expenditures- like in the hyperlocal market with their Patch product- seemingly without revenues to balance out the spending. CEO Tim Armstrong said back in September that profitability is a huge concern […]
As far as internet services go, Amazon Prime is up there when it comes to reasonably priced conveniences. Even when I was a struggling marketing assistant and single mom, I ponied up the $80 yearly fee to keep the Santa […]
If there is one area where the idea of trickle-down works it has to be in technology. In the beginning any new technology is always expensive but over time it begins the downward curve where it becomes more accessible to […]
Or so says Gawker. Actually, the New York Times itself posted yesterday about the new commenting system on its site, and Gawker posted about that, adding that the staid paper is a total copycat. The Times says: The first thing you’ll probably […]
It wasn’t a person or event that took this years most searched spot via Yahoo, instead it was a device, the iPhone to be specific. Yahoo revealed their top 10 years of 2011 during the company’s 10th annual “Year In […]