Kara Swisher at AllThingsD reported Tuesday that widget-maker Clearspring has acquired a start-up called AddThis for an undisclosed price.
Swisher referred to AddThis as “the top bookmarking and content-sharing tool on the Web,” a claim that’s a bit arguable since it’s based on AddThis’ own metrics. But basically, …

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Productivity application start-up Zoho is in a tough position: it has to compete with Google Apps. That hasn’t stopped the company from pushing forward and trying new stuff.
Case in point: Zoho’s Marketplace, which launched Tuesday. Through the Marketplace, Zoho users can make a buck or two off …
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Along with its nifty new iPhone application, Facebook on Monday night unveiled a new home page. No, not the moderately infamous “redesign” of its member pages–this is a new look for the page that you see when you navigate to Facebook.com without being logged in. It’…

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Thank goodness. BusinessWeek’s new 25 Most Influential People on the Web list is refreshingly free of blowhard bloggers, busty video babes, and those wacky people who don’t seem to do anything except speak at conference after conference.
Most of the list, rather, consists of the really…

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Facebook’s appointment of Ted Ullyot as its first general counsel might spook some in freewheeling Silicon Valley: he served as chief of staff to former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and as an associate counsel to President George W. Bush.
But in an interview Monday with CNET News, …

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YouTube has launched a new feature as part of its Insight tool for content creators that allows members to visually examine exactly where in their videos their viewers lose and gain interest. The new feature, called Hot Spots, plots how quickly users abandon a video over time.
To determine which points in a video are [...]

When the iPhone was first released, there was an abundance of speculation over whether the phone’s lack of Flash support would cripple its browser and give us something less than “the real web” that Apple had promised. At the time, Steve Jobs explained that the full version of Flash wouldn’t run well on the [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve “Sweat” Ballmer said that the financial crisis will “sap consumer and business spending,” leading to a downturn in Microsoft’s revenue. He explained that no company will be immune to the crisis although analysts predict an 8 percent rise in revenue this quarter.
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With one of the most fascinating PR headlines I’ve seen this year we find ourselves smack in the middle of the perfect Web 2.0 storm: Latinos, babies, and social networks. Introducing Babyspot Latino, a social network for parents of Latino babies or babies of Latino parents. Add in the words “Twitter” and “API” and you’ve [...]

In a move that could start a new wave in PC sales, Dell and Paramount Pictures today announced that they have signed a joint venture that will see “Iron Man” come pre-loaded on Dell computers for anyone who wishes to order the unit.
So far, the details of the deal are a bit disappointing. Paramount [...]