Google Giving Up On Urchin?

Ask, “ET” Partner

You may or may not be able to monitor the pulse of a nation through search terms, but in this case, that’s something of a non-issue; a partnership between Ask and “Entertainment Tonight” will only focus on celebrity names.

On Facebook, Poop More Popular Than Privacy

There are variations on the phrase I don't give a [flying] crap. But apparently that's not always true. At Facebook, at least, they'll give one, or throw one, so long as its imaginary and only costs them some personal information.

Google Buys Jaiku

Less than two weeks after Google acquired Zingku, a mobile social network, they announce that Google has acquired Jaiku.

Yahoo To Jump On Alibaba IPO

When Alibaba holds its IPO, Yahoo will be first in line, and the search engine company will reportedly have enough cash in hand to buy 10 percent of the available shares.

AT&T Sets Spectrum Price, Buys Out Aloha

The remaining frontier is in the sky, as you might guess, and AT&T's buyout of Aloha's chunk of 700 MHz spectrum in advance of January's government auction is a strategic move to conquer that frontier.