While in Washington, D.C., BoomTown can't just visit the policy wonks from Internet companies, so I paid a visit on Jeff Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that works to promote privacy and protection online. In other words, a professional--and much needed--thorn in the side of Facebook, Google and, these days, MicroHoo. Full story...
Can a microblogging twist on Gmail raise Google’s profile in social networking? We’ll soon find out.
Electronic Arts Inc.'s loss narrowed in the holiday quarter from a year-ago period that was weighed down by charges.
IAC/Interactive, the Barry Diller-piloted Internet conglomerate, this morning posted Q4 results that beat Street expectations.
Apple’s recent reiteration of support for AT&T and its decision to debut the iPad on the carrier's network are fueling speculation that AT&T may hold on to its iPhone exclusive far longer than anyone is expecting.
After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple — the ability to raise prices on their songs.
Yesterday, the day after after Google aired its first national commercial on the Super Bowl, an exec at a rival Internet company marveled at what high favorable scores the "Parisian Love" advertisement got, adding that the possibilities of spoofs of it were also endless.
Intel loves to talk about Moore’s Law, its co-founder’s famed maxim about how rapidly miniaturization improves semiconductors.
Here’s a metric to consider in advance of The Mobile World Congress next week and the likely debut of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Mobile 7 operating system: As widely maligned as it is, Windows Mobile was still running on 18 percent of U.
A former Universal Music executive, now headed to Yahoo, explains concisely why his former employer and the other big guys are just playing out the string: CD sales are wasting away, and the digital boost they were counting on simply isn't big enough.
Redpoint Ventures announced that it had closed a new $400 million fund to invest in early-stage start-ups in the "social and mobile Internet, cloud computing and clean technology spaces.