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StumbleUpon’s ability to propagate viral material online is normally enjoyed by Internet junkies who just want to find out what’s out there on the web. But, founder and CEO Garrett Camp is banking that the site can be much more than that. With new options to be launched early next year, they believe they may [...]
AOL Inc. is strongly considering dividing the company, a move that could ultimately lead to a merger with Yahoo, sources told Reuters.
When Apple announced its new 1.5-inch touchscreen iPod Nano in early September, it didn’t take long before people started dreaming of making the tiny music player into a wristwatch.
The addition of Netflix’s streaming only plan has had many people excited. With a good portion of their movie and TV catalogue online, paying $7.99 for immediate unlimited legal, crystal clear video is barely nothing compared to cable plans and buying a television. The anticipated increase of Netflix online subscribers has some people worried, however. Due [...]
For website owners, a spot on the first page of Google’s search results for a given query is the holy grail. Google uses a proprietary algorithm to determine a site’s influence on the web and assigns it a “Page Rank,” named after Google co-founder Larry Page.
For those of you who made an online purchase on Cyber Monday, congratulations you helped set the record for the biggest shopping day in online history. About $1.3 billion dollars was spent the Monday after Thanksgiving alone, up 16 percent since last year, according to comScore.
Before you try to buy that counterfeit knockoff to save some bucks, know that two of the largest governments in the world might be keeping a closer eye on eye on you. Yesterday, the US made several moves to block web sites that were known to sell counterfeit items and goods that infringed on intellectual [...]
European Union regulators are looking into Google’s business practices to see if their model has not forced many search engines out of business by using their dominant position in the market. Reports alleged that the company purposely put their rival websites lower in their search engine results to drive down traffic to those sites, including [...]
When you’re a tech journalist, writing about Black Friday is obligatory. But the whole idea drives me nuts. So for this week’s Technologizer column for TIME.com, I decided to wait until the week after Thanksgiving, and then share five tips for opting out of Black Friday but still getting good deals on gadgets.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has taken the wraps off of Jumo, a social networking site focused on helping people find and support reputable charities. Hughes told the New York Times that he hopes the site will do for charities “what Yelp did for restaurants.”
