Reddit Ponies Up $31K For Critically Ill Toddler in 12 Hours

Reddit Ponies Up $31K For Critically Ill Toddler in 12 Hours

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 […]

Regretsy Takes on PayPal For Asinine Policies, Arbitrary Money Holding

Regretsy Takes on PayPal For Asinine Policies, Arbitrary Money Holding

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 Eats Gowalla, Company to Shutter at the End of January

Facebook Eats Gowalla, Company to Shutter at the End of January

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, […]

Carrier IQ problems go global as European regulators get in on the act

Carrier IQ problems go global as European regulators get in on the act

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 […]

New Media Journalists Arrested In Zimbabwe

New Media Journalists Arrested In Zimbabwe

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 […]

Yahoo Employees Preparing To Jump Ship [Report]

Yahoo Employees Preparing To Jump Ship [Report]

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 Sued By Shareholders Looking To Maximize Returns

Yahoo Sued By Shareholders Looking To Maximize Returns

    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 Shutting Down Four Entertainment Websites

Yahoo Shutting Down Four Entertainment Websites

  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 […]

Groupon Investigated in the UK Over ‘Exaggerated’ Ad Practices

Groupon Investigated in the UK Over ‘Exaggerated’ Ad Practices

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. […]

AOL CEO Armstrong Says Company Hopes to Get 10% of Revenue via Mobile in Next 18 Months

AOL CEO Armstrong Says Company Hopes to Get 10% of Revenue via Mobile in Next 18 Months

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 […]

Google Targeting Amazon Prime With 1-Day Delivery, Rumor Says

Google Targeting Amazon Prime With 1-Day Delivery, Rumor Says

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 […]

Face-swapping magic coming for low-budget digital film-making

Face-swapping magic coming for low-budget digital film-making

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 […]

New York Times Adds Gawker-Like Commenting Section

New York Times Adds Gawker-Like Commenting Section

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 […]

Yahoo’s Top 10 Year In Search: iPhone Wins, Steve Jobs Doesn’t Make The List

Yahoo’s Top 10 Year In Search: iPhone Wins, Steve Jobs Doesn’t Make The List

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 […]