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| Oct 22, 2015 | SeatGeek Embraces Paperless Tickets | Ticket sales startup SeatGeek is the latest company joining the move to paperless tickets.
Thanks to a new feature, when you buy a ticket on SeatGeek, you’ll no longer have to print out a PDF or (shudder) wait for someone to put your physic... |
| Feb 23, 2015 | Afraid your computer is infected by Superfish? Here's what to do | "Your new laptop came pre-installed with an especially virulent strain of malware."
That isn't what any owner of a new computer wants to hear, but that was effectively the message Lenovo customers received late last week. And whil... |
| Jul 21, 2014 | Simple Tips To Reduce Your Summertime Work Stress | It’s the rare person who doesn’t feel stressed and frazzled in the office these days. A moderate level of stress can motivate you, but too much will take a serious toll on your health and well-being. No matter what’s happening around you at... |
| Jul 16, 2014 | Protecting your smartphone from a hard fall | Data storage pros like to say that it's a matter of when, not if, a traditional hard drive will fail in a desktop or laptop PC. Smartphones don't have to worry about spinning platters failing, but mobile devices have their own catastrophic ... |
| Apr 14, 2014 | Here's your one-day chance to buy Google Glass | If you believe Google Glass -- Google's (GOOG) experimental wearable tech in mock eyeglass form -- is the future of technology, then tomorrow just might be your lucky day. On Tuesday, April 15, anyone can buy their very own pair of Google G... |
| Jan 6, 2014 | CES: Less relevant, but still dominant | 15.00
As predictable as the swallows winging their way back to Capistrano each year, the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off today in Las Vegas. CES -- and the now-defunct COMDEX before it -- is considered the annual bellwether of impending... |
| Oct 2, 2013 | New iPhone faces mounting competition | (MoneyWatch) When Apple unveiled the newest iPhones last week, the company did something it had never done before: It took the wraps off not one, but two new handsets -- the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. That's not the only thing that was differ... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | Why the Microsoft-Nokia merger is doomed | (MoneyWatch) Last week, Microsoft announced it was purchasing a sizable chunk of the 150-year-old Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia for $7.2 billion -- that buys Microsoft the Devices and Services division. That's a large check to write -- e... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Demand Media Launches eHow Crafts, Google’s Algorithmic Effects Remain To Be Seen | Demand Media has launched a new channel for its popular eHow site – eHow Crafts.
“We’ve seen explosive consumer demand for craft-related content on eHow, which is why we’re bringing together and adding a wide variety of helpful content in a... |
| Aug 26, 2013 | No-contract smartphone plan for $20/month | (MoneyWatch) The smartphone revolution has left us with one unfortunate legacy: Much higher phone bills. Almost half of Americans with mobile phones pay more than $100 per month, for example, and a significant chunk of that is the cost of t... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | NSA spying: Should you be worried? | (MoneyWatch) We've been living with disclosures about National Security Agency's domestic surveillance for weeks now. Thanks to a flurry of news kicked off by leaker Edward Snowden, we now know a lot more than we did before about programs l... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Spending a week with Google Glass | (MoneyWatch) Google Glass -- Google's wearable computer shaped like a pair of eyeglasses -- has seeped into popular culture so thoroughly that you'd think it is already a popular consumer product. Yet the product isn't even commercially ava... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Defending cameras from the smartphone revolution | (MoneyWatch) There's little doubt that the last half-decade has been nothing short of a complete smartphone coup. In the space of just a few years, PDAs like Microsoft's (MSFT) Pocket PC and the Palm Pilot were thrown on the technological t... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | How to hide your online activities from the NSA | (MoneyWatch) With Edward Snowden's revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance of Americans, you might be wary of the government monitoring your online activities. Yet while there is certainly some flame behind all the s... |
| Jun 21, 2013 | 3D printing: Don't believe the hype | (MoneyWatch) For some time now, it appears that 3D printing -- the technology that builds physical objects on a small "printer" by progressively depositing layers of melted plastic -- is on the verge of going mainstream. Prices fo... |
| May 21, 2013 | Baltimore Foundery: downtown makerspace opens [PHOTOS] | It was by chance that Andrew Stroup and Corey Fleischer, two locals-turned-contestants on a new engineering-focused Discovery Channel TV show, met Jason Hardebeck, the executive director of gb.tc.
But despite having only met earlier this ye... |
| Apr 22, 2013 | Collaborating with co-workers in Office 2013 | (MoneyWatch) Competitors to Microsoft Office -- and Google Docs in particular -- have made it ridiculously easy for two or more people to collaborate on the same document in real time. I frequently co-write an argumentative blog post with f... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | Is Office 2013 proof that it's time to switch? | (MoneyWatch) Microsoft Office has been the backbone of the business world for decades; to this day, about 90 percent of business professionals use Office, even if companies don't quickly step up to the latest version, which Microsoft refres... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | Beware: Hoaxes can be costly | (MoneyWatch) Today is April 1 -- April Fool's Day, if you will. And while the roots of the day are likely linked to the 16th century transition from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, in more recent times it's chock full of good-natured ... |
| Apr 1, 2013 | Announcing Remote VM Access By Fax | By popular demand we are delighted to announce the world exclusive launch of cloud server access over fax.
PALO ALTO, CA – April 1, 2013 – CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provide... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | The Ultimate Tech Nightmare: A Lost iPad | StockPhoto/ThinkStock |
| Mar 13, 2013 | How to prepare in advance for a computer failure | (MoneyWatch) The very nature of computer failures are that they are inherently unexpected. For the most part, you can count on your desktop PC or network to operate smoothly and uneventfully, lulling you into a false sense of security. But ... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Simple ways to protect yourself from botnets | (MoneyWatch) Even as the volume of spam in our inboxes appears to be receding, other threats are looming. According to cyber-security company Kaspersky, for example, about 200,000 new malware samples are appearing in the wild every day. And... |
| Feb 12, 2013 | Say Hola! to a new route around web censorship | The ongoing copyright arms race between content owners and internet users has taken a new turn. Israeli firm Hola! has recently launched a suite of products that are variously designed to bypass geoblocking and accelerate internet-access sp... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | Computer spam sees "unprecedented" decline | (MoneyWatch) It's been such a gradual change that you might not have noticed, but the unthinkable has happened: Our collective spam problem is actually getting better. A recent report by cybersecurity company Kaspersky says that the amount ... |
| May 10, 2012 | Demand Media: Everything Looking Good For eHow After Deleting 600K Articles | As previously reported, Demand Media released its Q1 earnings report today, beating estimates. During the company’s last earnings call, the company indicated that eHow had not been impacted by a Google algorithm change since July. It would ... |
| May 2, 2012 | Tech Industry Hall of Shame – the Dumbest Moments in Tech History | We are surrounded by failure in the tech world, and some of those failures are big enough to sit in our memories for years. After the latest news from Google, we were reminded of many other shameful moments in tech. We put together our own ... |
| Apr 13, 2012 | Meridian Bioscience signs molecular diagnostics deal with major GPO | The illumigene product line is key to Meridian’s future as more customers look to molecular diagnostics, a means of analyzing the makeup of an organism at the genetic level.
The molecular tests Meridian is selling under the deal with Premie... |
| Mar 28, 2012 | eHow Launches Tech Channel, Continues Down The “Expert” Path | Demand Media has launched a new eHow Tech channel for tips and advice for consumers from “experts” on technology topics. The company refers to it as a “Tech 101” destination, where consumers can get info for “troubleshooting most tech conun... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | How GIF Trash Became Internet Culture Glue | Everyday on the Internet, a GIF is born. And everyday, a GIF dies a sad, not-reblogged death. GIFs were once an integral aspect of the Web 1.0 culture, actualized in novel pointed arrows and naughty adult-only signage of women flashing thei... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | Meridian Bioscience gets Australian OK for molecular group B strep test | Meridian received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance of the test in December.
Group B strep is a bacterial infection that can be passed to a woman’s baby during delivery. The bacteria is normally found in the vagina and/or rectum o... |
| Feb 13, 2012 | Финансовый популизм продолжается, акции ВТБ на память, незаконный buy-back, шок и трепет на съезде РСПП, осторожная ипотека, как рос ВВП | Анатолий Гавриленко, председатель наблюдательного совета группы компаний «АЛОР», президент Российского биржевого союза:
Финансовый популизм накануне выборов
Финансовый абсурд продолжается. Эксперименты с акциями банка ВТБ продолжаются. Это ... |
| Dec 12, 2011 | Meridian Bioscience gets FDA clearance for molecular group B strep test | The new group B strep (GBS) test yields results in an hour and works via a “simple” procedure that includes heat treatment, amplification and detection, according to a statement from Meridian.
GBS is a bacterial infection that can be passed... |
| Nov 23, 2011 | Dylan’s Desk: The time to start a company is now | Much of what happens at a startup happens out of sight of journalists and their readers.
It’s not the stuff of compelling reading, either. Running a business involves a vast amount of logistical work, stuff that has to be learned step by st... |
| Nov 23, 2011 | Dylan’s Desk: The time to start a company is now | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Much of what happens at a startup happens out of ... |
| May 4, 2011 | Livestrong.com gets new Editorial Director | The Demand Media property welcomes Adam Bornstein from Men's Fitness to spruce up content
Following Google’s efforts to clean up the Web, Demand Media has been doing some spring cleaning of its own. In recent months, Demand has made a numbe... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | Experian Hitwise: Google’s Panda Takes Big Bite Out Of Content Farms | Experian Hitwise reports that downstream traffic to content farms has taken a big hit since Google’s Panda initiative went into effect.
Panda is a change in Google’s algorithm that punishes search rankings for websites that produce low-qual... |
| Apr 20, 2011 | Hey Google, Wikio CEO says he's not scared of your little Panda | By now, most of you have probably heard of Wikio. The Luxemburg-based media group first started making headlines when it merged with French blogging platform, Overblog, back in September. The rumor at the time was that it was going to be a ... |
| Apr 18, 2011 | Demand Media Downplays Changes to Google’s Search Algorithm | When Google announced a tweak to its search algorithm in February, the company presented the change as a move to help improve search results. The official announcement said it wanted to make sure search unearthed “high quality sites,” and w... |
| Apr 3, 2011 | Angry Birds Rio hits 10 million downloads in 10 days | Game maker Rovio announced that its Angry Birds Rio game hit 10 million downloads on mobile phones in just 10 days. That’s a new record for the company, whose Angry Birds mobile game has catapulted past 100 million downloads in the past 16 ... |
| Apr 3, 2011 | Angry Birds Rio hits 10 million downloads in 10 days | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Game maker Rovio announced that its Angry Birds Rio game hit 10 million downloads on mobile phones in just 10 days. That’s a new record... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | Demand Media buys CoveritLive: content farm meets liveblogging | Notorious content farm Demand Media announced today that it has purchased CoveritLive, a popular “liveblogging” tool used to cover events as they happen. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
CoveritLive events reach over 60 million people ... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | Demand Media teams up with Rachael Ray | Could the partnership help Demand stay on top in light of Google's recent crackdown?
Demand Media will be adding a zesty new flavor to its eHow.com Web property. The content and domain company announced Tuesday morning that it is partnering... |
| Feb 25, 2011 | Google/Demand Media blog wars over algorithm | Google announces algorithm changes believed to target Demand, and Demand responds
Fresh off the heels of its latest spat with a company found to be gaming its algorithm (Overstock.com), Google has finally put the smack down on Web companies... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | Demand Media Earnings: Public but Still Playing Shell Games | Demand Media had its first earnings announcement and started on what seemed to be a good note -- an actual profit. Ah, but don't get too excited, as Demand says to expect losses this year starting with its first quarter.
Granted, ramping up... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | Blekko Bans Content Farms Like Demand Media's eHow From Its Search Results | Blekko, the perky little search engine startup that lets you customize your search results, is taking the fight against web spam to a new level. It already allows searchers to mark results as spam and keeps a spam clock that counts how many... |
| Jan 25, 2011 | Mahalo Pivots to Focus on Video-Based Learning | Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has just announced Mahalo 4.0, the latest pivot for his company that has now moved from being a “human-powered search engine” to a Q&A site. The new Mahalo, unveiled at the Digital Life Conference tod... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Apple Wins Integrated Touch Screen & Key iPhone Chip Patents
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Search | Granted Patent: Integrated Touch Screen
Apple has been granted a major touch related patent. Apple's patent generally relates to displays including display pixel stackups, and more particularly to touch sensing circuitry integrated into the... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | Sunshine Heart sets on $9.4 million | Sunshine Heart Inc. (ASX:SHC) raised $9.4 million, including $3.5 million from the sale of equity and options in the U.S., according to documents filed with the federal Securities & Exchange Commission.
The company, based in Australia a... |
| Dec 3, 2010 | Aussie/Minnesota medical device firm Sunshine Heart raises $9.4M | Promoted
Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Nov 22, 2010 | Malware creators target smartphones and get smarter at using the cloud | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Anti-malware firm M86 Security published a report... |
| Nov 22, 2010 | Malware creators target smartphones and get smarter at using the cloud | Anti-malware firm M86 Security published a report today predicting that malware creators are going to target smartphones and get a lot smarter about creating viruses that are much tougher to detect.
The M86 Security Predictions 2011 report ... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | Want to rep Philly? Better have some manners. | This is a guest post by Chris DiFonzo, CEO of OpenDesks as part of Guest Contributor Week. Want to have an op-ed or feature you’ve written to appear on TP? Drop us a line.
It’s true, many of the etiquette books around these days don’t hold ... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Amazon debuts short-format e-books, ‘Kindle Singles’ | Online retailer of just about everything, Amazon, announced today that it would begin offering a new format for content on its popular Kindle electronic reader dubbed “Kindle Singles.”
Amazon said the new Singles will essentially be Kindle ... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Evite Introduces Redesign, Tries Not To Suck, Fails | “Evite sucks” is not a revolutionary opinion. The online invitation company has been the subject of substantial vitriol for how much their site design feels like it’s from 1998, when they launched. It would be impossible not to respond to t... |
| Jul 29, 2010 | Video Content Farms: Howcast | Content farms have been in the spotlight over the past year. They’re companies that generate hundreds or thousands of new pieces of content on a daily basis. Much of their traffic comes from Google search, so the aim of content farms is to ... |
| Jun 16, 2010 | Demand Media Taps Joost For Video Advertising Sales And Technology | Video distribution and monetization platform provider Joost, owned by Adconion Media Group since its assets were acquired in November 2009, is today announcing a global sales and technology partnership with online publishing powerhouse Dema... |
| Apr 10, 2010 | Will AOL and Demand Media’s Content Farm Strategy Prevail? | Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. In this post he examines the two biggest content farms springing up on the Web: Demand Media and Aol. You can find his previous guest posts ab... |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Twitter Expected To Take The Wraps Off Its Advertising Platform Today | Later today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will be interviewed by Umair Haque of the Havas Media Lab at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. We’ll of course be covering any announcements that will be made by Williams on stage, but we expect th... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | Two Years After Launch, Howcast Is Streaming 25 Million How-To Videos A Month | Two years ago, former Googlers Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman launched Howcast, a site filled with originally-produced how-to videos on everything from “How to Ice Skate” to “How To Deal With a Mean Boss.” Today, Howcast is... |
| Dec 14, 2009 | Demand Media Acquisition Rumors Heat Up Again. CEO Says No Way. | Los Angeles based Demand Media, a sprawling network of content sites (that was a big part of a post yesterday on the end of hand crafted content), is rumored to be shopping itself to the big Internet companies. A couple of sources have told... |
| Dec 9, 2009 | wikiHow vs. eHow: Is The Wiki Way Better Than Content Farms? | Jack Herrick knows a bit about Demand Media, one of the top 20 web properties in the U.S. and the subject of several ReadWriteWeb articles about sites that are pumping thousands of pieces of content into the Web every day. Herrick sold the ... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Shareholder Class Action Suit Seeks To Block 3Com-HP Merger | Networking and security services provider 3Com got hit by a shareholder class action suit seeking to block the $2.7 billion merger agreement with HP that was announced last week. The core allegation: 3Com was sold off too early, for too lit... |
| Nov 12, 2009 | How Demand Media Produces 4,000 Pieces of Content a Day | In August we reviewed Demand Media, one of the largest producers of content on the Web
today. Wired Magazine recently compared Demand Media’s content business to Henry Ford’s production line for cars. Demand Media currently produces 4,000 n... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Back to Basics | Sure, Social Networking is getting all the buzz out there – that is when people aren’t asking “what’s next”, which might mean it’s a good time to remind ourselves that sometimes good old fashioned methods still have their place in today’s f... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Answers.com: 31 Million Copied and Pasted Web Pages Can’t Go Wrong | Earlier this week we looked at the top 50 web properties in the U.S., according to comScore, and analyzed the changes over the past year. The top 5 were almost the same, except for the entrance of Facebook at number 5. What really caught ou... |
| Jun 19, 2009 | How to save MySpace | Even though they've been clearly headed in the wrong direction
I wouldn’t bet against MySpace. They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. They ... |
| Apr 28, 2009 | Tagito launches to sell your expertise — in anything | New startup Tagito has launched its online knowledge marketplace, providing a platform for even laymen to turn a buck on their random expertise. Basically, the web site provides a searchable database of user-generated material (documents, s... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Graspr sees learning as a social process | The end game is about helping monetize knowledge-based services
In part two of this two-part interview Graspr founder and CEO Teresa Phillips discusses how Graspr differentiates itself from other How-to sites and their recent Glam Media syn... |
| Feb 3, 2009 | Betfair.com co-founder Josh Hannah joins Matrix Partners | Matrix Partners just added entrepreneur and investor Josh Hannah as a general partner based out of the venture firm’s Menlo Park, Calif. office. Hannah is probably best known for co-founding online gambling site Betfair.com (previously Flut... |
| Jan 20, 2009 | Google Knol six months later: Wikipedia need not worry | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jul 9, 2008 | Yahoo Takes A Gander At Demand Media To Plug Some Holes | Demand Media, founded by former Intermix Media (the parent company to MySpace) CEO Richard Rosenblatt, has quietly grown into a pretty large business, with rumored revenues of around $250 million, and profitable. It just so happens that wha... |
| Nov 26, 2007 | Richard Rosenblatt on demand in an interview with Bambi | Demand Media's Richard Rosenblatt has solidified his position as an Internet visionary, with what could arguably be history’s boldest strategy for monetizing shoeboxes full of content. One might even say that Rosenblatt’s Demand is not only... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | Graspr Steps into the Crowded Instructional Video Ring | Teresa Phillips, founder and CEO of Graspr and one-time Yahoo VP, says that “Graspr is not just another video site or social networking community.” I’m not so sure.
The company has granted me access to Graspr prior to its presentation at De... |
| Nov 16, 2006 | Demand Media aims to Capitalize on Web Content | Bambi Francisco from MarketWatch has
an interesting interview with Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. Rosenblatt was
chairman of MySpace at the time it was sold to News Corp and it appears as if he’s aiming
just as big with Demand Media. A... |
| Meridian Bioscience gets FDA clearance for molecular group B strep test | Diagnostic test maker Meridian Bioscience (NASDAQ:VIVO) has received regulatory clearance of a molecular diagnostics test for group B streptococcus.
The group B strep test is the second in the Cincinnati-area company’s illumigene line of mo... |
| Consumers cry foul over overdraft fees | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID SWANN / [email protected]
Hawaii consumers upset about getting dinged with multiple overdraft fees are claiming that some banks are unfairly trying to maximize profits with the charges, but the financial ... |
| Meridian Bioscience gets Australian OK for molecular group B strep test | Diagnostic test maker Meridian Bioscience (NASDAQ:VIVO) has received Australian regulatory clearance of a molecular test for group B streptococcus.
The test is part of Cincinnati-area Meridian’s illumigene line of molecular diagnostic tests... |
| Aussie/Minnesota medical device firm Sunshine Heart raises $9.4M | Sunshine Heart Inc. has raised $9.4 million, including $3.5 million from the sale of equity and options in the United States, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company, based in Australia and Eden... |
| Meridian Bioscience signs molecular diagnostics deal with major GPO | Meridian Bioscience (NASDAQ:VIVO) has reached a deal to offer discounted prices for two molecular diagnostics tests to members of one of the nation’s largest healthcare group purchasing organizations.
Cincinnati-area Meridian hopes the deal... |
