While we continue to slog our way through the economy (is it getting better, staying the same or worse?) there are a few companies that are defying the general downward trends. Apple’s iPhone has let them weather the storm quite nicely. Apparently, Facebook is doing quite fine as well.
Digg Gets More Cash, Expanding Internationally
Digg has raised an additional $27.8 million from a funding round led by Highland Capital Partners. The company has now taken nearly $40 million from investors over the last three years.
The Blogosphere Is Expanding
Two weeks ago, I gave a class on blogging.
Intute Expanding Into Academic Google Alternative
The Intute web service in the United Kingdom will receive an infusion of thousands of more documents at the end of the month as they construct a “more discriminating” search engine.
Controlling Your (Expanding) Google Sitelinks
Google’s announcing some big changes with their Sitelinks feature.
Expanding The Concept Of “News”
Thanks to my mesh pal Mike Masnick from Techdirt for pointing me towards a recent column by Jeremy Wagstaff of Loose Wire (and the Wall Street Journal) that I had been meaning to post about. In the column, entitled "The Future of News," Jeremy writes about how it’s difficult to talk about the future of news without admitting that the idea of what we call "news" has changed, and is continuing to change. As he puts its:
AOL Expanding Broadband, Portal Deals
Three phone companies will join Verizon and Time Warner Cable as providers of broadband connectivity; AOL and Sony brokered a portal deal focused on users of Sony Vaio PCs.
Digg This Digg.com Is Expanding
The wildly popular tech site, where stories get approved or dumped based on the views of the userbase, plans to branch out into other categories and formats.
Expanding on Usability
Two weeks ago, I used this space to write about the importance of usability in website design. The article was supposed to act as a lead-in to a short series of articles on the basics of search engine optimization and as a gentle suggestion for webmasters concerned with converting visitors into buyers.
FDA Considers Expanding Femara
Breast cancer drug, Femara, was submitted for additional regulatory approval by the US Food and Drug Administration today from Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis. Femara presents the hope of post-surgery medication that helps older women fight tumors.