Going, going, gone: The last of the Web 2.0 music services are dwindling away. The latest is Imeem, which in the process of being purchased by MySpace, I've confirmed. Haven't heard a price yet, but I wouldn't expect much, given that this deal, like the iLike purchase MySpace made earlier this year, is an "acqhire" -- News Corp.'s social network/portal wants to buy Imeem for its "sales team, engineering, Snocap and other Imeem IP", a person familiar with the transaction tells me. Full story...
Palm shipped 960,000 smartphones during its third quarter — 23 percent more than it did in the previous quarter.
When all else fails, send some severed heads. "Remember our heritage - we are the people that brought you the Godfather".
DirecTV shares are modestly lower this morning after Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet cut his rating on the stock to Hold from Buy.
Remarking on Palm’s gruesome third quarter during an earnings call yesterday, CEO Jon Rubinstein called the company performance "extremely disappointing to me personally.
The Onion is right: You can't surround build a wall around your cubicle using Google News and Craigslist.
While trolling around Washington, D.C. this past week, BoomTown dropped in on Blair Levin, the executive director of the National Broadband Plan, the opus just released by the Federal Communications Commission.
Now that a Texas jury has found that Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Office Communicator infringe its patents, VirnetX Holding has set out to prove that a few other Microsoft products do as well.
For years, lawyer advertisements have featured pinstripe-suited men standing in front of mahogany desks and leather-bound books, urging viewers to “call now!” Avvo Inc.
Life before Google for Chad Hurley and Steve Chen: Lots of users, not much revenue, and big costs that got bigger every month.
While in Washington, D.C. this week, BoomTown got to go to a dinner for comic Kathy Griffin.
Griffin's reality television show is called "My Life on the D List" and we're proud to share the same terrific letter.