Nicholas Carlson

Think a lot of people are using the Internet? You’re right. Some 747 million people aged 15 or older used the Internet worldwide in January 2007, a 10 percent increase from the same month a year ago, according to new research from comScore Networks. But among the top 15 countries (ranked by penetration), Internet audiences […]

Cisco Systems’ social media spending spree isn’t over yet. The company this week said it bought select assets of privately held Utah Street Networks, the operator of the social networking site Tribe.net and is on the lookout for more. The proprietary software infrastructure that Utah Street Networks uses to create and maintain online communities on […]

Fox will not pursue civil action against YouTube and Live Digital users who uploaded episodes of “24” prior to their broadcast premieres. In an e-mail to internetnews.com, a 20th Century Fox Television spokesperson said that Fox has referred the case to law enforcement authorities, temporarily putting on hold plans to pursue civil action. The news […]

Reporter’s Notebook: Before meeting with Google Earth Product Manager Peter Birch, I had a theory that Google planned to turn Google Earth into a virtual world replete with avatars, flying cars and virtual storefronts: a Second Life clone. When hasn’t Google been interested in making money by opening a platform for users to share information […]

IAC property Citysearch today announced it has acquired Insider Pages, a reviews-based local search company located in Redwood City, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Insider Pages has more than 600,000 merchant reviews on local businesses in 30 markets across the U.S., according to Citysearch. The company said in a statement the purchase […]

Major stock markets may be recovering from the record plunge that hit global trading yesterday, but recriminations over slow computer responses to the sell-off are still rippling around the trading world. As the Dow Jones Industrial average plummeted 178 points within one minute Tuesday, many online brokerage firms fared no better serving Internet investors, who […]

So far, so good for Panama, the new advertising platform Yahoo launched on February 5th. A new study suggests that click-through rates for sponsored search ads are up and so are sponsored clicks as a percentage of total user clicks on the site. Research by comScore, released today, suggests the system’s impact is showing solid […]

News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media, today announced it acquired Strategic Data Corporation (SDC), an interactive advertising technology company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In the view of one analyst, the buy brings an element long missing to Fox Interactive’s (FIM) Web properties: technology designed to serve the right ads at the right […]

Google took its Web-based applications to the big leagues today with Google Apps Premier Edition, a suite of hosted applications targeted at the same enterprise market traditionally dominated by Microsoft Office. Google Apps Premier Edition, which will cost businesses $50 per user account per year, includes Google Calendar, as well as the company’s Gmail e-mail […]

Viacom and Joost, a new Internet television service started by the founders of Kazaa and Skype, today announced that Viacom will contribute free content from its MTV Networks, BET Networks and Paramount Pictures division to the Joost platform. It’s a new Internet home for Viacom’s video content, only weeks since the media giant alleged copyright […]

Lawyers for a minor who alleged she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old she met on social network MySpace.com are planning to appeal a court’s decision to dismiss their lawsuit. The lawyers originally claimed MySpace failed in its duty to protect the minor with reasonable safety measures, despite knowing other minors had fallen prey to […]

Just in time for Valentine’s Day and for the rest of February, Facebook is allowing users to buy each other icons and post them on other user’s profiles for $1. The social network is calling the icons “gifts.” Each were designed by Susan Kare, the designer of the original icon set for the Macintosh computer […]