Yahoo Q4 2008 Financial Results Turn Out All Right

Does Carol Bartz have the magic touch?  It's either that or she inherited something less than a complete mess from Jerry Yang, anyway, because as Yahoo's new CEO presided over her first earnings report, many of the numbers weren't at all bad. 

Click Fraud Reaches Record Level

Click Forensics has released its latest figures on click fraud for the fourth quarter and says it has jumped to the highest level since 2006.The overall industry average click fraud rate grew 17.1 percent for the fourth quarter of 2008. That's up from 16.0 percent in Q3 2008 and from 16.6 percent for Q4 2007.The average click fraud rate of PPC ads appearing on search…

MySpace Parent Company Laying Off 100 Jobs

In a move that won’t surprise as many people as it would have this time last year, Fox Interactive Media has announced it will be cutting its workforce by as many as 100 jobs. Fox is the parent company of social network site MySpace as well as Photobucket and various mobile sites.

Arrington To Take Break After Spitting Incident

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington had an unfortunate encounter at the Digital, Life, Design Conference he was attending in Munich, Germany yesterday.He describes the incident in post titled "Some Things Need To Change" where an anonymous person walked up to him and spat in his face.

Gmail Goes Offline (In A Good Way)

As frequent travelers, folks with bad ISPs, and laptop lovers can agree, it's not always easy to connect to the Internet, and being cut off from the world is a real nuisance.  But now Google's solving one aspect of the problem by making Gmail accessible to people who are offline.