"This investment is a tremendous vote of confidence in our business from the people who know us best, our current board members and investors," he said in a memo viewed by CNET. "They have reviewed our plans for 2013, and they are enthusiastic enough to want to commit additional financial resources through this round."
The financing followed a "competitive process" in which … Read more
It's not easy to celebrate a near miss on the day of an actual hit.
Google discovered this yesterday. The company was very keen to offer another of its highly involving doodles for your weekend enjoyment.
Its nerd-leaning artists thought it might be fun to create a little something that cheered the fact that Asteroid 2012 DA14 wasn't going to strike Earth and create havoc.
Sadly, an ill-timed meteorite did strike Earth and create havoc.… Read more
Bruce Livingstone, who founded microstock powerhouse iStockphoto more than a decade ago and left it in 2009, is trying again with a new stock-art sales venture called Stocksy.
And he's doing it at a time when iStock is, if not necessarily vulnerable, the target of criticisms that it's out of touch with the army of photographers who contribute the imagery it licenses. To succeed, a microstock needs lots of customers licensing its photos, videos, and other works, and it needs a lot of contributors supplying a steady stream of fresh material.
It's these contributors Livingstone appears to … Read more
It looks like development of Do Not Track, an effort to create a standard that'll let people tell Web sites not to track their online behavior, has resumed after a months-long logjam.
Peter Swire, the newly appointed leader of the World Wide Web Consortium's work on Do Not Track, has been attempting to find common ground among very different constituencies including privacy advocates and advertisers. But there's been progress, he said in a blog post.
"Over the past two days, the group has successfully managed to identify a path toward fulfilling our W3C charter: we now … Read more
Marissa Mayer is not yet impressed by Yahoo's search partnership with Microsoft.
In her first investor conference appearance since taking over as Yahoo's chief executive last summer, Mayer told attendees at the 2013 Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco that the pact is not delivering the increased revenue or market share that was expected.
"One of the points of the alliance is that we collectively want to grow share rather than just trading share with each other," said Mayer, according to a Reuters account of the event. "I'm not confused. Our … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO --The future of Yahoo will be providing personalized user experiences both on mobile and the desktop, according to the company's chief executive officer, Marissa Mayer.
Speaking at the 2013 Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference this morning, Mayer offered another glimpse into the search company's evolving mobile strategy, which will include some consolidation for the existing product portfolio.
"The core of Yahoo's business is to personalize content," affirmed Mayer. But within that content, she continued, is also advertising, which she said can improve the experience when done right.
Mayer suggested that smartphones offer … Read more
Amazon, which tracked the change in artists' rankings after the Grammy's officially ended, found Rihanna, Sting, and Wiz Khalifa to be some of the biggest winners.
The company, as well as Apple and other online music retailers, today is promoting songs and albums by Grammy artists, which is likely helping them move up the rankings.
Rihanna's "Unapologetic" climbed 40 spots, while Sting's "The Very Best of Sting … Read more
In a sign that suggests healthy demand for Twitter's advertising, the microblogging site has reportedly increased the daily price of its Promoted Trends to $200,000.
The new price, which is a 33 percent increase over the previous price, went into effect earlier this year, according to an All Things D report. The price has increased 150 percent since the program launched in 2010 with a daily price of $80,000.
Twitter promotes the feature as a way for business to increase interest in a brand or product. Promoted Trends appear in Twitter's Trends section to the left … Read more
LinkedIn spent much of 2012 transforming itself into a place where workers could stay and play a while -- a strategy that paid off handsomely. But the year ahead will be all about making the site the preferred destination for professional content, a transition that could make Wall Street's darling even more bewitching.
The professional network today reported earnings that blew the Street's socks off, so to speak. LinkedIn's stock is trading up close to 10 percent on the after-hours market because the company floored everyone with fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share of 35 cents, revenue of $… Read more
I have spent the last few days explaining to those closest to me that, because of my past, I can never become the pope.
I have also told several people I can never climb Everest, turn a snake into a mongoose, or kiss Bar Refaeli.
I attribute this strange burst of negative information to the ad that BlackBerry ran during the Super Bowl.
Should you have missed it, you can't be too disappointed.
However, the company has now released a new ad -- currently running in Canada and the U.K. -- that attempts to insert a positive halo … Read more
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