Longtime Internet pioneer, AOL today matures its mobile platform with a two new applications for Android handsets and an HTML5 version of the AOL Mobile website for smartphones. It’s no surprise that AOL is looking to support smartphones, but picking Android over iPhone is. Read More »
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At the of 2009, Pandora had 43 million listeners. On April 1, 2010 that number had grown to 50 million. In less than three months, it has added 10 million new listeners. What’s behind Pandora’s growth? Hint, it is not the browser. Instead look elsewhere. Read More »
In response to a Congressional question on whether broadband is being deployed in a reasonable and timely fashion to all Americans, the FCC today released its 706 report, saying that 14 – 25 million Americans have no access to broadband, now defined as four Mbps down. Read More »
Google launched a redesign of Google Images that includes “infinite scroll” and image-based advertising today. Though Google Images currently contains more than 10 billion images and sees more than 1 billion page views every day, it had been largely untouched since launching in 2001. Read More »
Google is in the process of acquiring ITA Software, an airfare information provider. But travel isn’t the only thing ITA does; a few years ago, a research division of the company started a build-your-own-database tool for web data called Needlebase, which beta-launched in January. Read More »
Yahoo and other web giants have been kicking the tires on New York-based URL shortening service Bit.ly, according to a people in the know. Like many others, Yahoo knows it needs to figure out a way to participate in the emergent real-time and location-aware web. Read More »
As Google has infiltrated many of our online activities — mail, calendaring, search history, blogging and even YouTube viewing — it asks us to use a single Google account. But finally, the company is on the verge of allowing users to use multiple accounts within the… Read More »
Charles Jolley, who until very recently worked as JavaScript Frameworks Manager at MobileMe, left to work full time on his open-source framework, SproutCore. His new company’s premise is that the future of HTML5 and native apps will be closely entwined as content goes mobile. Read More »
Google made a significant strategic shift last week to spend $700 million to buy ITA Software and its flight information business. What about other search verticals? Are there other major data providers that Google could buy — perhaps in real estate, sports, entertainment or jobs? Read More »
Yesterday, the Google-owned YouTube launched new mobile and the living-room versions, both of them entirely web-based and accessible from any browser. It’s a big move for an resource-intensive video streaming service to shrug off the benefits of native apps and go exclusively through the web. Read More »
Earlier this morning Louis Gray speculated that red-hot start-up Foursquare might be looking to buy Thing Labs, the company behind Brizzly. Jason Shellen, CEO of Thing Labs and Mike Hirshland, partner at Polaris Venture Partners, they both categorically dismissed the story as not true. Read More »
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