By Valuentum: Former web titan Yahoo (YHOO) made headlines after announcing it acquired social media/blog site Tumblr for $1.1 billion, mostly in cash. Even though Tumblr generates little revenue, Facebook (FB) did acquire Instagram for $1 billion (in cash/stock at the time) when the company didn't post any revenue. Show More Summary
Here’s a true win-win situation. Director Steven Soderbergh, whose latest (last?) film Behind the Candelabra premieres May 26 on HBO, has taken to the web to do some good. He’s launched a site called Extension 765 where you can buy original props from films like Ocean’s Eleven, Ché, Traffic and Erin Brockovich with all proceeds going to [...]
Rob really likes IKEA. IKEA doesn’t seem to have any strong feelings about Rob, but the store’s web site hates him. They don’t want to do business with him. It’s nothing personal, surely, but the web site believes that he doesn’t exist, and not even anyone at IKEA has ben able to figure out why this is or what to … [More]
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David Amerland of Imassera recently wrote, “It seems that $1 billion plus change these days is what’s required to buy a photo-sharing app (if you’re Facebook), a global phone manufacturer (if you’re Google) or a microblogging site (if you happen to be Yahoo). Show More Summary
A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, it's easiest to use Azure Web Sites. I showed how to do setup Azure Web Sites in minutes with Git in this post. Show More Summary
Web site Comics Alliance, a three-time winner of the Eisner award -- went mysteriously silent toward the end of April, to the distress and consternation of comics fans. No word -- official or otherwise -- was heard from either parent company AOL or any of the Comics Alliance staff members. Show More Summary
IR-2013-52, More Taxpayers e-file from Home in 2013 (May 20, 2013): Cumulative statistics comparing 5/11/12 and 5/10/13 Individual Income Tax Returns: 2012 2013 % Change Total Receipts 135,473,000 134,349,000 -0.8 Total Processed 130,261,000...Show More Summary
We are all interconnected here on the World Wide Web, and all of us entertainment sites operate on a friendly basis. So what are Vulture's preferred partners excited about today? Jennifer Lawrence's X-Men: Days of Future Past getup, the real life Bling Ring, and Zahara Jolie-Pitt's thoughts on PDA. Read
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japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey by goo Research into eating and drinking establishment usage, with this article focusing on web sites used for getting such information. Demographics Between the 19th and 23rd of April 2013 1,098 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.6% of the sample were [...]
Flickr was once one of the most exciting sites on the web, essential for most creatives. But after it was bought by Yahoo in 2005 things started to drift. Will its new redesign refire users' enthusiasm?
Android: Yesterday, Flickr completely overhauled their site and unveiled new free and paid plans. After that, they pushed a huge update to their Android app, one that brings the tiled gallery view and a few extra features for mobile users. Read more...
This is a collection of 15 great stories from some of our favorite sites around the web.
When you get a first glimpse of what Brow.si does to any mobile site, you will essentially forget everything you know about the mobile web. No, seriously.
As web giants continue to circle fast-growing start-ups like sharks circling a school of fish, Yahoo has decided to get in on the action, confirming that it agreed to pay $1.1 billion for micro-blogging site Tumblr, along with a “promise not to screw it up.” As part of that promise, under the terms of the [...]
Courts are looking to Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced Web site, as one way to define words on which a case may turn.
Oh my goodness! Earlier this spring, there was a “brute force attack” on WordPress sites all over the web, including this one. It took us down. In fact, it went in and modified some things that I’m still trying to fix. But finally, after 6 or so weeks of my fighting with both WordPress, code, [...]
Automated Insights, a startup that translates raw data into plain English, is launching a new product could make analytics data a lot more accessible.
The new product, called Site Ai, pulls data from existing systems (it started with...Show More Summary
j2 now owns the No. 1 Web property in tech sites.
You think you know everything about the internet because you managed to bookmark a few free porn sites and up-voted some Grumpy Cat meme's on Reddit? Well, there's a lot more to the web than carnal perversions and dwarf felines: it's...Show More Summary