Nicholas Carlson

UPDATED: Perhaps feeling a little left out of the lucrative social-networking space, Microsoft announced a joint venture with Wallop to get in the game.

Score one for the big guys. After watching Microsoft, Research in Motion (RIM), and eBay lose millions to smaller companies in settlements over patent

Following Jeeves the butler out the door, Ask.com CEO Steve Berkowitz is headed to Microsoft. Berkowitz will be in charge of MSN.com, MSNTV and MSN

Streaming video and music accessed through the Internet and mobile devices will generate $27 billion in revenue by 2011, according to an Insight Research

Internet advertising revenues grew 30 percent, earning $12.5 billion in 2005, according to numbers released today by Interactive Advertising Bureau and

AOL today told internetnews.com that it is building a social-networking site likely to compete with News Corp.'s MySpace.com. "We have something that

After talk of a $750 million buyout offer, Facebook today settled instead for a mere $25 million investment from venture-capital firm Greylock Partners.

Even stateside, court rulings aren't going Microsoft's way. In the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts today, Judge D.J. Wolf granted Novell's motion to

Burst.com answered Apple Computer in court yesterday, counter-suing the company over alleged patent infringements. Burst.com CEO Richard Lang said the

Mobile phones have screens, speakers and microphones. They can take pictures and record video. And they can connect to the Internet. So why you can't make

The Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a "John Doe" summons to eBay subsidiary PayPal, asking it to turn over account data. In seeking the summons, which

Newspapers are doomed. Or so it may seem. The young, the hip and the Web-savvy are going online for their classifieds, and ad dollars are following. So if