Kenneth Corbin

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached the head of Palm suggesting the two companies reach an accord to not hire away each other’s top talent, Ed Colligan said “no thanks,” according to a Bloomberg report, citing a review of the companies’ communications. In fact, Colligan, who left the company in June, sounded a little indignant […]

MySpace said this afternoon that it has reached an agreement to acquire iLike, a popular music recommendation service with a footprint across the social Web. Founded in 2006, iLike bills itself as “the Web’s leading social music discovery service,” boasting more than 50 million users. It’s also the most popular music app on several popular […]

As it continues its series of meetings working toward a national broadband plan, the Federal Communications Commission this morning considered what to some is the most important, and overlooked, aspect of the broadband debate: adoption. Much of the discussion about how to bridge the digital divide has focused on how to spur new build-outs of […]

When Apple’s iTunes overtook Walmart to become the largest music retailer in the country — online or off — it was big news. Few if any observers would have expected to see that changing of the guard undone, but the latest sales figures highlight just how dominant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has become. Apple now accounts […]

Facebook is again under fire for its privacy policies, this time in the form of a civil lawsuit alleging the company violated a host of California laws pertaining to copyright, truth in advertising and safeguarding users’ personal information. The suit, brought by five members of the popular social network in California’s Orange County Superior Court, […]

It’s more than a bit fitting that a company would seek to block publication of a profile of its founder and chief executive seeking, among other things, to explore the culture of secrecy that shrouds both company and leader and ask the question if the former can exist without the latter. In the tech industry, […]

The Department of Justice has given an approving nod to a Minnesota court’s ruling that Jammie Thomas-Rasset pay the Recording Industry Association of America $1.92 million in statutory damages for the illegal downloads of 24 tracks on the peer-to-peer site Kazaa. That amounts to $80,000 per track, a figure Thomas-Rasset is challenging on both constitutional […]

Online media mogul and liberal evangelist Arianna Huffington has hopped on the Facebook bandwagon in a big way. This morning, her eponymous blog empire The Huffington Post launched HuffPost Social News, a feature that retrieves and shares the stories that people’s Facebook friends have been reading. “The explosive growth of online social networking has fundamentally […]

Got to give it to my colleague Alex Goldman on this one — he called it. Earlier this week, Alex mentioned to me a rumor that the servers handling the online applications for broadband stimulus funds were overloaded. He was right! The two agencies overseeing the grant and loan process have pushed the deadline back […]

With the recent glut of media attention lavished on Twitter as the great, transformative communications platform of our time, it perhaps shouldn’t be surprising to see a research firm take a stab at quantifying what, exactly, people are saying on the microblogging service. One such effort comes from Pear Analytics, which recently analyzed a sample […]

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has hung a big “keep out” sign on the social Web, signing into law a bill that would make it a felony for registered sex offenders to hang out on sites like Facebook and MySpace. In fact, the bill goes so far as to bar them from any site that has […]