There’s no snow on the horizon yet, but ecommerce retailers are plotting and finalizing their holiday marketing strategies,...

IAC, parent company of Ask.com and many other prominent websites, has acquired About.com from the New York Times with a $300 million cash...

If you’re Zappos, you launch a nifty new site that turns Pinterest activity into shopping recommendations. It’s called PinPointing and...

Beyond consumer purchases, Google envisions Wallet (online and mobile) to be a kind of ecosystem and platform for merchants. If...

dramatic Apple victory over Samsung in its patent case in US federal court on Friday. Many bloggers, pundits and tech journalists are now...

Sometimes, it is the size of your hashtag that matters. In Seattle this week, the Space Needle launched a contest that will let one...

(Update: see our post-verdict story: Apple Wins: Proves Samsung Infringed Patents As Jury Awards $1B+ In Damages.) Apple might similarly...

rewritten its iOS app with an eye on speed, but the real story isn’t about the app’s features — it’s about how the app was rebuilt and...

Of things I imagined when I first started writing about Google as a hot new search engine in 1998, the idea that about 15 years later,...

Earlier this month Google announced the quasi-launch of custom URLs, and today some users have noted that they are available for...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted unanimously to approve the deal after reviewing potential antitrust issues. From the...

Last month Facebook began testing a “Sponsored Search” ad unit geared towards those searching on Facebook. Today it has been released to...

Foursquare could give a big boost to Yahoo in “SoLoMo”: social, local and mobile. While Yahoo has mobile apps, it badly lags Google’s...

prepping a new API for release in the near future. And while many developers immediately slammed Twitter’s new rules, not everyone is...

Pricing ranges from free for the barebones “Basic” account up to $25 per year for the “Pro” account, which provides unlimited lists of...

announced new rules for accessing its data today and how those are designed to encourage certain types of products and services while...

What about The New York Times — is it the most influential brand in the world? I’m not going to debate those questions one way or...

Avid Klout users around the world will notice a reconfiguration in numbers today as Klout is undergoing a major overhaul and redesign....

Comparing Shares: Issues To Consider I’ve compared sharing activity myself, when assessing Google+. I often share the same content across...

Presidential candidates, national journalists and TV stars have been accused of artificially inflating their follower counts through...