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Federated Media, a leading advertising network, is buying assets of TextDigger, a five-year-old semantic search company, specializing in Read More

Without any press release or fanfare, secretly and subtly, just when you thought it would never happen, Internet Read More

During the same week Facebook announced its widely-expected entry into location-based services, with Facebook Places, it was also Read More

Time Inc. Friday morning made its iPad version of People free to print subscribers. Previously, each iPad issue Read More

This is not your parent’s textbook. Inkling announced Friday the launch of its digital textbook platform and a Read More

Facebook on Wednesday launched its widely-expected location-based feature, called Facebook Places. Like competing services, such as Gowalla, Loopt Read More

The market to process the billions of virtual goods purchases on social networks, social games and virtual worlds Read More

Many early-stage startups share one common costly expense: legal fees. Law Pivot, a Q&A site for legal questions Read More

My friend Howard Lindzon DM’d me on Twitter last night. He asked if I would agree to be Read More

Ever notice how many male tech bloggers defend porn like it was their religion? This week, two big Read More

Hulu is readying an initial public offering that would value the company at $2 billion according to anonymous Read More

It hardly feels like the dog days of summer in Silicon Valley, as both Google and Facebook make Read More

(*This story was updated to include my interview with Aydin) Aydin Senkut is one of the more high-profile Read More

This week we’ve got a social network for buying and selling shares in people and brands, yet another Read More