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A startup developer of technology that helps publishers better connect sales with affiliate marketers has closed on seed funding from First Round Capital, Google Ventures, and such individual investors as LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. The financing for the company, VigLink, will be used to take the product out of beta and into the general market ...
Pushback against the deployment at airports of digital image scanners that show people's naked images through their clothes is gaining steam, bolstered by the Electronic Privacy Information Center's publication of government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security papers suggest the Transp...
Microsoft is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for a rehearing of its affirmation in December of a lower court's jury verdict that Microsoft infringed on patents held by a Toronto-based company, i4i While awaiting the court's decision, though, Microsoft has scrambled to comply with an injunction that went into effect Monday, ...
France's Ministry of Culture has issued a report that recommends taxing Internet advertising revenue earned by such companies as Google, Facebook, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft, based on the use of their services in France. France would then use those supplemental tax receipts to support local online cultural content, content creators and artists. Sugg...
During its glory days in the 1990s, Motorola was the No. 1 mobile phone manufacturer in the world. Then Nokia overtook it, and ever since, Motorola has been trying to regain its lost footing. There was a glimmer of hope that it might be headed for a comeback in the mid-2000s with the success of the Razr. However, Motorola did not follow up with another winner, and its fortunes sank...
Amazon plans to start selling an international version of the Kindle DX -- its larger-sized e-reader device -- in more than 100 countries. The e-tailer began offering an international version of its standard Kindle last October.
Apple is acquiring mobile ad company Quattro Wireless for an undisclosed amount, Andy Miller, Quattro's vice president, mobile advertising, said in a statement on the company's Web site Apple and Quattro did not return calls from the E-Commerce Times by this article's deadline.
The e-reader market is set to take a big leap forward with the debut of the Skiff Reader at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Skiff, a Hearst-backed consortium, has partnered with Sprint to deliver content to the devices via its 3G wireless network ...
Worldwide sales of semiconductors rose to US$22.6 billion in November -- a 3.7 percent increase from October when sales were $21.8 billion, according to new statistics from the Semiconductor Industry Association. Sales for November 2009 were 8.5 percent higher than November 2008's $20.9 billion total -- marking the first time for the year they were in positive territory.
Google will be introducing its Nexus One smartphone device next Tuesday, it appears certain. Not that Google has said as much: All the the company has announced is that it will hold an "Android related" press conference on Jan. 5, a day identified in prior rumor accounts as the Google phone's launch date. The expectation of a Nexus One announcemen...
Google's plan to acquire mobile ad network AdMob in a US$750 million deal announced last month is under fire from two consumer groups,Consumer Watchdog and the Center for Digital Democracy. The two have asked the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal, arguing that it would substantially lessen competition in the mobile advertising market, harming consumers, advertisers and application developers, among others. ...
Amazon's Kindle is on a roll: On Christmas day, Customers purchased more e-books than physical books for the first time ever, according to the e-tailer. November marked the Kindle's best sales month ever, according to the company, which announced that milestone even before Cyber Monday purchases were tallied.
U.S. airlines may not keep passengers waiting in an airplane on a tarmac -- whether for take-off clearance or stalled because of bad weather or just about any other reason -- for more than three hours, according to new rules issued by the Department of Transporation. After two hours, airlines are required to give passengers food and water. The onl...
Google is in talks to acquire Yelp, an online local search and business review provider, in a deal that could be worth more than US$500 million, according to unconfirmed accounts first reported by TechCrunch. Google and Yelp did not respond to the E-Commerce Times' requests for comment.
Motorola is rumored to be bringing another Android phone to market -- one that's named either "Backflip" or "Enzo," according to information and photos an anonymous source provided to Phandroid The device supposedly will run on the AT&T Wireless network.
Motorola is rumored to be bringing another Android phone to market -- one that's named either "Backflip" or "Enzo," according to information and photos an anonymous source provided to Phandroid The device supposedly will run on the AT&T Wireless network.
URL shortening -- a niche service that exploded into the mainstream along with Twitter -- has suddenly become a hotly competitive market, with a handful of new offerings. Market leader Bit.ly, as well as TinyURL and scores of other smaller players, now have to contend with Google and Facebook. The Google URL Shortener is currently available only ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case that centers on text-messaging privacy policies for employees in the workplace. The Court could reinforce employees' rights, prompting employers to issue ever more stringent policies on workplace communications, including stepped-up monitoring in order to maintain their right to view such messages.
Oracle has pledged it will not assert copyright claims over MySQL and that it will extend terms and conditions of existing commercial licenses of the database for five years in the hope that the European Commission will approve its US$7.4 billion pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The EC has indicated that Oracle's concessions are "an import...
Despite plunging revenues due to the resistance of European regulators to its pending acquisition by Oracle, Sun Microsystems has rolled out enhancements to three key products in its Java platform: Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6...
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