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Apple’s App Store: The New Walled Garden

One reason startups and developers are so excited about the iPhone is because they can create richer mobile applications for it and it promises to become a more open platform than the...

AOL Makes Big Budget Cuts Across Blogs

AOL is making across the board budget cuts on its blogging properties, we’re hearing from multiple sources. The cuts range up to 25% of each properties total budget, which falls mostly on...

Mossberg, Levy And Arrington Talk iPhone, Yahoo On Charlie Rose

Our own Michael Arrington joins Wired’s Steven Levy and the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg on last night’s Charlie Rose show. Most of the discussion was on the iPhone 3G and...

Microsoft Scores Facebook Search Deal And May Get A Little Live.com Branding To Boot

Microsoft SVP Satya Nadella has announced that the company has expanded its deal with Facebook to integrate Microsoft’s Live Search into the social network. There are few details at this...

Facebook Takes The Fast Lane To Boring

I disagree with Sam Gustin when he says that yesterday’s Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco was a snoozer. First of all, before and after the keynote they played music so loud that...

Microsoft Rumbles, Rearms For Online War It Can’t Win Without Yahoo

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped the ax today, and it landed on Kevin Johnson’s neck. Johnson, Microsoft’s soon-to-be ex-President of Platforms & Services, has been with...

Opposing Views Launches As A Debate Site Where Experts Go Head-To-Head

Getting average know-nothings to create content for your site is easy enough and well understood by now. But how do you get experts to create in-depth topic pages about the hot-button issues of the...

Playfish: Using Facebook As Its Gaming Console

If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a...

Opposing Views Launches As A Debate Site Where Experts Go Head-To-Head

Getting average know-nothings to create content for your site is easy enough and well understood by now. But how do you get experts to create in-depth topic pages about the hot-button issues of the...

A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why?

Xobni, the Y Combinator email startup that turned down an acquisition offer from Microsoft earlier this year, has just lost its VP Engineering and first employee, Gabor Cselle. Cselle joined the...