More than two years after buying advertising network aQuantive for $6 billion, Microsoft finally unloaded the digital advertising agency that came with that deal. It sold Razorfish to French advertising conglomerate Publicis Groupe for $530 million in a combination stock-and-cash transaction. The price was 1.4 times Razorfish's 2008 sales of $380 million. Microsoft has been shopping Razorfish around all summer. It was reportedly hoping to get $600 to $700 million, but the advertising recession didn't help. Microsoft settled for a slight discount to that. Full story...
Back in January, Google announced that it would follow Mozilla's lead and start offering cash bounties for bugs found in the code of Chromium (the open-source browser behind Chrome), or Chrome by the community.
Banks, cable companies, and utilities all want to get rid of their paper bills and get customers on their electronic billing systems.
Editor's note: This post was written by Joe Stump, the co-founder of SimpleGeo, a geolocation infrastructure company.
There are only two weeks left until the iPad's April 3 launch date, and Apple has just started reaching out to developers to say that they're accepting applications that were developed specifically for the device.
One of Yahoo's key chief technologists, Sam Pullara, is leaving the company to become an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital.
Who says you can't attract a substantial number of users on a shoestring budget? Spain-based social networking platform provider Genoom, which lets family members communicate amongst each other on private online community sites, is about to sign up its millionth user.
WorkSnug, an augmented reality iPhone app that is setting out to connect "mobile workers" (that's everybody now, right?) to the nearest places to work in major cities, is now live in New York and San Francisco.
While every man and his dog is waiting for their preordered iPad to arrive, some Germans went their own way and yesterday presented a Slate that appears to have, well, better features.
Last year, OneRiot ventured into the advertising world with RiotWise, an ad format which places content in an emphasized position in their realtime feed.
Google's obsession with speed is well-documented. One of the primary design principles behind its search engine is to return results as fast as possible and strip away anything extra.