Facebook has quietly clamped down on the growth of applications developed by third parties for its platform, shutting down two means for viral growth.
The company has done so because it fears that some applications are spamming users, and may turn them off.
Instead, it wants user’s “news feeds” to do the evangelizing. We’ll explain.
On June 26, [...]
Glam Media, the network of women’s online lifestyle, fashion and other blogs, has surged past iVillage in overall global unique visitors, according to Comscore’s latest data just released.
Glam has scrounged up 30 million unique visitors in a single year — an accomplishment that only MySpace, Google and maybe one or two others have done before [...]
Silicon Valley start-up Cooliris has released an improved version of a feature that lets you preview pages being linked to.
The idea behind it is to save you from having to click through.
There were drawbacks to Cooliris’ initial version, released last year: First, the preview pop-ups were too small. This time, they are much larger and [...]
Five initial public offerings showed the time is ripe to issue new shares, especially in technology — all of them were robust, seeing their stocks start trading at the high end of expectations or even higher.
Comscore — ComScore, which measures the amount of traffic Web sites get, is benefiting from strong growth among Internet [...]
[Editor’s note: Venture capitalist Bart Schachter writes about how the Semel tenure at Yahoo is a lesson for VCs, who tend to want to bring in professional CEOs and jettison passionate founders.]
It is noteworthy that within just months Michael Dell taking back the reins at Dell, Jerry Yang should do the same at Yahoo.
Like Steve [...]