Kenneth Corbin

On the eve of what could be a seismic shift in government, talk has been heating up about tech policy in the United States. But it’s worthwhile to remember that it is the World Wide Web, and in that spirit researchers from Elon University and the Pew Internet and American Life Project canvassed the world’s […]

Driven by heavy traffic to the popular social network MySpace, News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media division served more display ads than any other U.S. Web property in June, according to new figures from online metrics firm comScore. Of the 52.3 billion display ads FIM served, MySpace accounted for 51 billion. The nearest competitor was Yahoo […]

By now, the story of Barack Obama’s use of online social tools to out-fundraise his political rivals has become a familiar one. The soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee created My.BarackObama.com, a massive social network that his campaign has used to build an online community and collect multiple contributions (many of modest amounts) from the same donors. […]

Source: Reuters Scrabulous, the hugely popular word game already banished from Facebook in North America, has now been yanked from most of the social network’s other sites throughout the world. Facebook pulled the application after receiving a formal complaint from Mattel, the game maker that owns the rights to Scrabble outside the United States. Scrabulous’ […]

The [great digital ad race](/webcontent/article.php/3764261/The+Olympics+A+Digital+Frenzy+Like+No+Other.htm) is an Olympic event with no medal ceremony. But with the numbers trickling in, it’s worth a moment to look at this year’s games, which are widely seen as the first truly digital Olympics. In terms of revenue, NBC, which has taken a lot of grief for how it handled […]

To some, Microsoft running an ad agency makes about as much sense as eBay placing phone calls over the Internet. But the companies in fact operate in those far-flung business lines, the seeming illogic of which is cause for regular rumors of deal talks that would spin off the appendages. We hear periodically of eBay […]

For online retailers cranky about a controversial new law in New York requiring them to collect sales tax on purchases shipped to that state, Newegg has an solution: don’t do it. Newegg, a Web-only merchant that sells computers, accessories and consumer electronics products, has reversed its policy of collecting sales tax on New York purchases, […]

Microsoft is not going to the social networking craze pass it by. So get ready for the latest from the software giant in the form of a social bookmarking service aimed at developers and other members of its tech-focused communities, the Microsoft Development Network (MSDN), TechNet and Expression. In early September, Microsoft (NADAQ: MSFT) plans […]

Following her decade tenure as chairman and CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman looks to have a bright political future ahead of her. Whitman, who built eBay from a fledgling online auction play with an unproven business model into an e-commerce powerhouse today worth some $32 billion, has solidified her place in Republican presidential candidate John […]

Google is nearing a wide-ranging partnership with Verizon Communications that would make it the default search provider for all the company’s devices, The Wall Street Journal has reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal would see Verizon (NYSE: VZ) replace its homegrown mobile search engine with Google’s, creating an all-in-one service that would […]

After receiving its formal rebuke from the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast is going to be making some changes in how it manages Internet traffic on its network. The FCC delivered its final enforcement order yesterday, giving the nation’s largest cable provider 30 days to disclose its “unreasonable network management practices” and come forward with a […]

The Mac rumor sites are lit up again about whether Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) plans to unveil an iTunes subscription service next month. The latest rumor is courtesy of an anonymous tip supplied to several of the what’s-Steve-Jobs-up-to-next blogs. One involves a “late September Apple Event,” which purportedly will see the introduction of two music subscription […]