Nicholas Carlson

LinkedIn Corp., known for its online business networking site, today announced $12.8 million in new funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and European Founders Fund (EFF). “After reaching profitability in March 2006, now is a strategic time for us to acquire additional investment at favorable valuation,” LinkedIn Chairman and CEO Reid Hoffman said in a statement. […]

A US District Court in Northern California has instructed Google to produce identifying information for a YouTube member accused of illegally uploading episodes of Fox’s “24” and “The Simpsons.” The court issued an identical subpoena, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, to Los Angeles-based LiveDigital.com. Both were executed on Wednesday after L.A. law firm […]

Google Video isn’t faring well in the booming online video market. Good thing the company bought YouTube. Starting today, Google will tighten integration with YouTube. This means that YouTube video results will appear in the Google Video search index. When users click on YouTube thumbnails, their browsers will be redirected to YouTube.com. Despite the tighter […]

The president and CEO of eBay  called 2006 a year of “successes and challenges.” But for Meg Whitman and the online auction company she helps run, the successes trumped the challenges in the form of earnings results for the fourth quarter and full year. The online auction giant posted a profit of $346 million (25 […]

For access to the young, the rich and the educated, advertisers should look to broadband video, according to a Nielsen Analytics report released today. Larry Gerbrandt, head of Nielsen Analytics, along with Scarborough Research, published “Whatever, Whenever, Wherever: How Broadband is Redefining the Economics of Television.” Gerbrandt’s report states that Americans with access to broadband […]

With more and more Web users craving the ability to find anything in the free world, vertical search engine WhitePages.com, Inc. this week launched a new application designed to help people find, well, people. Power Web Search aggregates peoples’ phone numbers, home addresses and e-mail addresses with Web content and displays the information in one […]

Although no one came out and said so, Yahoo  executives sure sounded relieved to close the books on 2006 during the company’s fourth quarter and full-year earnings results today. With good reason: The portal king ended the year with news of lower profits, but kept hopes high about its new advertising platform still in the […]

Life after the CAN-SPAM Act hasn’t worked out the way self-proclaimed “Spam King” Scott Richter might have liked it to. Social-networking site MySpace announced today it has filed suit against Richter, calling him the mastermind behind millions of spam “bulletins” sent to MySpace users’ accounts without their knowledge. MySpace said those bulletins, allegedly sent between […]

Social networks know the first rule of the Web: personalization as a path to differentiation. MySpace is wide open and popular with the high school kids and independent musicians. Facebook is for everybody now, but its early days drew the college crowd, and it’s still mostly known for that. Friendster, meanwhile, is for the 20-something […]

Yahoo today added a personal touch to Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Personal Finance provides users with an collection of financial centers covering nine areas of personal finance ranging from banking and budgeting to retirement. Content from the site will come from various different sources. CNNMoney, Consumer Reports, Kiplinger, The Motley Fool, Smart Money and the Wall […]

The number of Americans using the Internet as their main source of political news doubled since the last mid-term election and rivaled the number from the 2004 presidential election year, according to a report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Fifteen percent of all American adults say the Internet was the […]

AOL LLC’s bid to purchase Swedish online advertising power TradeDoubler AB for about $900 million is being met with staunch resistance by Swedish pension fund manager Alecta. Alecta, TradeDoubler’s largest shareholder, moved to block the acquisition by raising its stock in TradeDoubler to 10.01 percent. That was enough to prevent the 90 percent shareholder approval […]