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A domain selling for hundreds of millions of dollars gets people's attention. The sale of Business.com for $350 million most likely sent…
Yahoo’s got some pretty bright people in its employ, and one of them - Dr. Usama Fayyad - has just been awarded the 2007 Innovation Award by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). And yes, that’s the same ACM that gives the Turing Award.
Retention rates for usage of the Firefox browser have caused concern for the Mozilla Foundation. They're brainstorming ways of improving that rate. We've got a suggestion for them.
I don't know if it's a human nature thing or a Western civilization thing, but it seems a lot of the time we focus on winners, damn the rest, and assume that when one supplants the other the other drones on eternally in obscurity rather than the two coexisting. We do this even though Coke and Pepsi, McDonald's and Burger King, Wal-Mart and Target all…
Here's a challenge for you: raise a child unexposed to branding. Good luck with it. This article isn't about parenting, though, it's about the power of the brand. A recent study revealed preschoolers think even milk and carrots wrapped up with McDonald's golden arches tastes better.
Last month, Cycling.tv made distribution deals with Blinkx and Joost; we’ll call that “good.” What’s “bad” is that Cycling.tv lost about $1 million last year, and the official site suffers from some technical problems. Now, after (presumably) weighing these matters, JumpTV has acquired the cycling property for $4.95 million.
