Susan Kuchinskas

SAN FRANCISCO — In case you didn’t notice, PayPal has grown up. While it’s still the friendly, person-to-person payment system favored by eBay users and small online retailers, the company is also going after the world’s largest retailers. Mega brands, including Wal-Mart and Adobe, were invited to a breakfast meeting today to hear JupiterResearch’s projections […]

For two years, Angela Demouthe* underwent a series of tests to identify the troubling weakness that was growing in her legs. When she moved from Raleigh, N.C., to Atlanta, she prudently got a copy of her records to take with her. But when she lost consciousness and ended up in the emergency room of an […]

Online shopping: awesome. Online banking: terrific. Search: incredibly useful — even the ads. Everything seems to go better on the Internet, where information is quickly updated, accessible from any computer 24 hours a day. The next wave of Internet enabling is coming to your family doctor and your local hospital. Instead of playing phone tag […]

SANTA CLARA — When Google announced Docs & Spreadsheets in 2006, the conventional wisdom was that startups offering similar online applications for business were dead meat. Google had already snapped up Upstartle, maker of the Writely only word processor, as well as Jot, maker of online spreadsheet and wiki apps. In fact, some said the […]

SANTA CLARA — Web 1.0, aka the dot-com boom, may not have been all about getting rich, but you had to be able to get your hands on millions to play. But the kind of Internet company described loosely as Web 2.0 can get by on a pittance — and that’s enabled a new kind […]

In 2000, the mobile industry’s dream was, “You’re passing a Starbucks, and your mobile phone pings with a coupon for 50 percent off a latte.” In 2008, the reality will be, “You’re lost, but your cell phone knows where you are — and will get you outta there.” Location-based mobile services, or LBS — mobile […]

A new research study warns that the Internet could stagger under the weight of the digital media clogging its pipes. The study, conducted by Nemertes Research and distributed by the not-for-profit Internet Innovation Alliance, suggests that consumer and corporate Internet usage could outstrip network capacity both in North America and worldwide in a little more […]

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Which technologies will have the power to transform business — and save the planet — in the next five years? Answers ranged from sci-fi to so-Twentieth-Century at a panel discussion produced by the Netherland-America Business Exchange (a chapter of the Netherland-America Foundation) last night. The Future of Innovation: Digital and Green, hosted […]

Tongues are wagging about a new Facebook advertising format, scheduled to be announced next week, that could finally make every online marketer’s dream a reality. According to the rumors, Facebook plans to announce something called SocialAds, which would use the cookies it drops on members’ machines to deliver targeted advertising to them on other sites– […]

Among the scrappy Web 2.0 startups taking part in Google’s recent OpenSocial announcement, Salesforce.com kind of stood out. Salesforce.com already has a proprietary development language and platform, Apex, launched in January. It also has AppExchange, an easy and successful way for third-party developers to create and sell applications that run on top of Salesforce.com. And […]

Among the scrappy Web 2.0 startups taking part in Google’s recent OpenSocial announcement, Salesforce.com kind of stood out. Salesforce.com already has a proprietary development language and platform, Apex, launched in January. It also has AppExchange, an easy and successful way for third-party developers to create and sell applications that run on top of Salesforce.com. And […]

Google’s announcement of OpenSocial Wednesday night marks something of a turning point for the technology darling. As the company struggles to extend its dominance in online search advertising to radio, TV and print, the OpenSocial project creates a set of open application programming interfaces (APIs) that will let developers write widgets to run on a […]