Nicholas Carlson

Intuit Inc, known for its Quicken, Quickbooks, and TurboTax products, bought online banking services provider Digital Insight today for $1.35 billion. Intuit will pay $39 per share in cash for each Digital Insight common share. “The combination of two industry leaders will put Intuit in an excellent position to bring a new generation of online […]

Ever longed for the open seas, an eye patch and a parrot in a quest to become a pirate? Well, it won’t happen with BitTorrent. The company has been headed toward legitimacy for a while now, but today it announced a slate of partnerships with film and television companies, such as 20th Century Fox, G4, […]

The Cyber Monday numbers are in and they don’t disappoint. Now, e-tailers just have to make sure nothing crashes under all the weight. In the world of e-commerce, the Monday after Thanksgiving is referred to as Cyber Monday. As the first workday after the long weekend, it’s expected to be big for online retail, with […]

You’re at the gas station filling up, miles away from your computer, and you think, I could really go for some sweet videos of trampoline bike tricks right about now. Well then your lucky day is imminent. Google property YouTube has just announced a partnership with Verizon to give Verizon Wireless V Cast customers access […]

Away from the pre-dawn shuffle toward the big-box stores and the mall’s frenetic crush, e-commerce reaped a record-breaking harvest during Black Friday. According to Nielsen//NetRatings’ Holiday eShopping Index increased 12 percent from home on the day after Thanksgiving. That’s a unique audience of 19.2 million across more than 120 representative online retailers, compared with 17.2 […]

Reporter’s Notebook: During the dark winter days of 2006, my colleague Catherine Pickavet wrote: “It’s not hard to picture a typical teenager in the Internet era: home from school, heading straight for the bedroom, door slammed tight and off to another world, online. “Once there, she listens to music, chats in real time, explores like […]

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Web site Stormfront.org is a “veritable supermarket of online hate.” According to Google, a Stormfront-hosted Web site is the most relevant search result for a “Martin Luther King” query. It’s called MartinLutherKing.org and it purports to provide “a true historical examination” of Dr. Martin Luther King, the Nobel Laureate, […]

Compared to Europe and Asia, American smartphone adoption is still very low. But it’s growing. In fact, smartphone unit sales almost tripled from 2004 to 2005, and increased by 50 percent in the first half of 2006 over 2005, according to an In-Stat research report. Numbers like this keep everyone from Google and its search […]

UPDATED: Yahoo needed content so it went and got some. Today, the company added 150 daily U.S. newspaper sites to its inventory to push for businesses and individuals in your neighborhood. As part of the deal, publishers will use Yahoo’s technology platform to sell online advertising. They will also adopt Yahoo’s search and search advertising […]

There won’t be much mistletoing or hearts a-glowing among e-commerce sites if they aren’t ready for what’s supposed to be their most wonderful time of the year. Most retailers generate 20-40 percent of their annual eCommerce revenues and profits during the holiday season, according to Web research firm CoreMetrics. And contrary to popular belief, the […]

Don’t look now, but Black Monday is only a week away, otherwise, known as “Cyber Monday.” Whatever the moniker, the Monday after Thanksgiving traditionally kicks off the online holiday selling season. It could be a big year for e-tailers. Web research firm CoreMetrics, for one, is predicting that 2006 overall holiday retail sales will increase […]

Web-based search is coming to your mobile phone, courtesy of Microsoft  and Sprint . The companies today said they have struck a deal to offer Sprint’s customers Windows Live Search, which includes local maps and directions, over wireless phones. With Sprint’s Windows Live Search for mobile service, customers can use their Web-enabled phones to search […]