David Needle

Yahoo’s Chief Executive Carol Bartz could announce a major management reorganization as early as this coming week, most likely on Wednesday, according to the blog AllThingsD. The Wall Street Journal-affiliated blog, citing several sources inside and outside the Internet company, said the shift could be pushed out a week or two or rolled out in […]

The results are in. Analytics software firm Pinch Media has released perhaps the most detailed stats on iPhone application usage to date based on over 30 million downloads its tracked. For iPhone developers, the results are clear: Paid apps have an immediate payback, while the ad-supported model takes longer and generally relies on repeat users. […]

ShareThis enhanced its popular widget for sharing content on the Web with an updated version released this week. The company said the new version will be rolled out to all of its 80,000 publishers in the next few weeks. The ShareThis widget is aimed at providing a quick way for a site’s publisher to set […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — When it comes to the economic outlook for Silicon Valley, the glass isn’t half empty, it’s just about dry. Yet a panel of experts here at Stanford University still found room for optimism for some of the region’s companies, despite the gloomy near-term prognosis. For the meantime, however, the panelists — […]

Despite our collective economic woes a Web site that caters to the rich seems to be doing quite well. Traffic at [Affluence.org ](http://affluence.org/)grew to over 80,000 unique visitors in January, according to analytics at Compete.com; a nice spike from its launch in September. Affluence touts beating out other players in the “elite social networking space” […]

Facebook’s CEO wasted no time responding to complaints that erupted over the weekend to changes in the social networking site’s Terms of Service (TOS) agreement it requires for membership. Mark Zuckerberg posted a blog Monday that defended his company against charges that Facebook now lays claim to its users’ information even after they leave the […]

Facebook moved quickly this week to assure users they are still in control of the information they post to the popular social networking site. But the company did not say it would make any changes in its Terms of Service (TOS) agreement at the heart of the current controversy. At issue are changes Facebook made […]

Google has begun accepting paid applications into its Android Market mobile app store — a move that lays the groundwork for potentially following Apple’s lead in turning smartphone applications into a sizable moneymaker. Initially, the Android Market offered only free applications. Now, however, the search giant confirmed plans to next week begin selling applications through […]

Google continues to fine-tune its social networking strategy, launching a new “social bar” for its Friend Connect service that makes it easier for Web site publishers to add Google-based social networking components. The search leader’s Friend Connect project, which launched in May, offers drop-in widgets to help Web sites integrate social features into their sites […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Craig Newmark wants to clear up a few misconceptions about the popular community site he started back in 1995. In his keynote at the UGC Conference & Expo here this week, Newmark started with a joke and then said something that may have surprised users of the mostly free classifieds site, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A new social network seems to pop up every day or even faster, depending on how you define the term. A panel of industry experts debated the future of social media and networking here at the two-day wrap up of the User Generated Content Conference & Expo. While Facebook, MySpace and […]

UPDATED: SAN JOSE, Calif — “Information just wants to be free” is one of the many rallying cries that have led to the content explosion on the Web, but it’s not always easy to find out who wrote what and what others may doing with your original content. For example, copy and pasting a section […]