Monthly archive July, 2008

With billions in cash sitting around, and with passbook savings rates what they are, Google is always looking for ways to put its money to work, and now it's reportedly considering a formal structure to make sure its bucks are Read More →

Having very publicly bullied his way onto Yahoo's board, activist investor Carl Icahn has now decided that when it comes to facing a large and likely irritable crowd of fellow shareholders, his place should be in the shadows. Icahn Read More →

Turns out the Agarwalla brothers, creators of the Scrabble-clone Facebook application Scrabulous, were not twiddling their thumbs during the grace period they got while Hasbro was getting its authorized version together. Just two days after shutting down their game in Read More →

"Newspapers have at least two more huge opportunities. "First is to open the archives, with permalinks on every story in the database. Newspapers hold more of their communities’ histories than all other media put together, yet they hoard it behind a Read More →