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Yahoo said Tuesday that it will sell display ads on Walmart.com in a multi-year partnership. Under the deal, Yahoo will use its ad network to be the primary sales force for Walmart.com's online display and video advertising. Walmart.com will also use Yahoo's tools to monitor ad performance an...
Amazon said Friday that the Kindle will get 5,000 additional titles from Simon & Shuster for its e-book library. Simon & Shuster is a unit of CBS, which is buying CNET, parent of ZDNet. With the Simon & Shuster deal, Amazon adds titles like Stephen R. Covey's "The 7 Habits of H...
Twitter has answered a burning question in the development community: Will Ruby on Rails stay as it overhauls its infrastructure? The answer: Ruby stays, but Twitter may diversify in some areas. Ruby on Rails has been tarnished a bit by Twitter's outages, but in a Q&A on its architecture th...
The iPhone ante is being raised by the minute for Apple. The question now shifts from whether Apple will ship 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008 to by how much it'll blow away its own target. To wit: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, one of the more bullish iPhone fans out there, is pr...
Google Gears launched a year ago and the search giant is ditching its moniker to reinforce that Gears is an open source project. So far so good, MySpace has used Gears to launch search and sort mail messages. The overall theme: Google is trying to extend the browser. The bevy of announcements com...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that the company will launch a pay-per-view movie service shortly. According to reports out of D6â€"Barron's Eric Savitz has the most complete account along with Silicon Alley Insiderâ€"Bezos said he's serious about music and video downloads. He should be considerin...
There is an off chance that the recent disclosures about Windows 7 could give folks a little more comfort in their decision to upgrade to Vista once you wade through the various crosscurrents coming from Microsoft. Based on various nuggets emanating from the D6 conference, various leaks and inter...
As expected, Microsoft's brief multi-touch demonstration of Windows 7 garnered most of the headlines, but when the crowd goes one way sometimes it makes sense to go the other way. And if you go away from the crowd you'll notice more than a few subtle hints were dropped about how Microsoft is cha...
Yahoo said Tuesday that it has filed a lawsuit against "Yahoo! Lottery Spammers" for launching a scam where users are convinced that they won a prize from the company. The lawsuit is the latest filed under the Federal CAN-SPAM Act. Yahoo filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern ...
Via has open sourced a laptopâ€"computer assisted design documents, 3D models and all of the specificationsâ€"but let's be clear about the motives. Via wants to sell more chips and motherboards to power this device with hopes to become a little more relevant. Via calls this contraption the Via ...
Google has filed its response to Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit over copyright infringement. The gist: Viacom's lawsuit hampers the Internet and challenges the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Google's response (Techmeme)â€"you're forgiven if you are shocked that V...
Earlier this week at one of Mary Jo Foley's talk before the New York Software Industry Association one of the folks in the audience posed a great question. The gist: The Google vs. Microsoft online advertising war resembles Sears vs. Montgomery Ward years ago. The punch line: While Sears and Montg...
Salesforce.com's first quarter had a bunch of high points: The company topped estimates, upped its outlook and highlighted a bevy of customer wins. But the big takeaway may be that Salesforce.com's international business is picking up steam. First, the basics. Salesforce.com (all resources) r...
Twitter has received $15 million in venture funding, according to Om Malik. Now the fun really begins: Twitter needs to change its architecture on the fly. Om reports that the latest round means that Twitter has raised about $20 million in total VC backing. With that newfound dough it's pret...
Nortel is apparently trying to take a page from AMD's old playbook and sneak up on its much-larger rival-Cisco. Just a few years ago -- it's hard to believe given AMD's recent execution issues -- but AMD snuck up on Intel and gave it fits. Intel was off its game. AMD was on it. AMD created ...
