Inform Technologies today announced a Web site that lets online news consumers navigate through multiple news Web sites in one location. Inform.com went live today in a beta version. Inform is the brainchild of Neal Goldman, founder of Capital IQ, who sold a similar information distribution tool for...
As part of its strategy to build advertising revenue over the Internet, The New York Times Co. said yesterday that it will buy About.com from Primedia for US$410 million. The Times Co., which owns The New York Times, The Boston Globe and more than 40 other Web sites, said it plans to enhance About.c
Brilliant Digital Entertainment and Altnet are still trying to come up with ways to make money out of their TrueNames DRM project. Their latest efforts look remarkably like a phishing exercise, almost akin to those Nigerian scams in which industrious scribes send out messages meant to hook the unwar...
The Washington Post Company announced today that it has reached a deal to acquire the online magazine Slate from Microsoft for an undisclosed sum. "Slate has been a pioneer in Internet publishing, and it is a fine magazine," Donald Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of the Washington Post ...
Dan Rather delivered Henry Copeland a Christmas gift three months early. On Sept. 20, the CBS news anchor was forced to admit that his network no longer had confidence in documents used to support a now-infamous 60 Minutes piece about President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. It was ...
Interactive advertising firm DoubleClick became the latest high-profile Internet company to be hit by hackers as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack knocked out the company's advertising servers for several hours, slowing many of the most popular Web sites as a result. The attack hit Doubl...
German-language spam containing right-wing messages and proclaiming disapproval with the presence of Turks and other immigrants in Germany were being received around worldwide today. The barrage began on Wednesday and initially inundated e-mail accounts of users in the United States, the Netherlands...
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