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Social Networking Has Hidden Dangers for Teens [Voices]
From behind their bedroom doors, more than 1 out of every 10 teenagers has posted a nude or seminude picture of themselves or others online - a "digital tattoo" that… Read more »
Boys Will Be–Especially, in Silicon Valley–Boys: Some Goofy Photos Après FaceFeed [BoomTown]
Yes, that's Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in shorts, knees and all, in a picture taken right "after signing the papers" to acquire FriendFeed for $50 million. The deal… Read more »
Now That There’s FaceFeed, Does That Make Twoogle More Inevitable? [BoomTown]
MicroHoo. Check! FaceFeed. Check! And Twoogle? Let's check! Yahoo and Microsoft have finally partnered. Microsoft is already a big investor in Facebook. And today, the huge social networking site just… Read more »
Razorfish-Publicis: And the Digital Walls Come Tumbling Down [Voices]
The prevailing wisdom has been that the important word in ‘digital advertising agency’ wasn’t the advertising as much as it was the digital. Technology was king. That has all changed… Read more »
Cloudy With a Chance of Computing: BoomTown’s NPR Debate With Harvard Law Prof Zittrain [BoomTown]
This morning, BoomTown was on the very terrific National Public Radio talk show, "On Point," along with Harvard law professor Jonathan Zittrain. The program, moderated by Tom Ashbrook on Boston's… Read more »
Rackspace Q2 Revs Top Ests Despite Outage Credits [Voices]
Rackspace posted Q2 revenue of $152 million, above the Street consensus of $149 million. Results for the quarter reflect $2.4 million in credits related to service interruption at the Web… Read more »
Take That, Twitter! Facebook’s Cox and FriendFeed’s Taylor Talk About the Deal (But Not BoomTown’s $50 Million Guess on the Price) [BoomTown]
After Facebook announced today that it had acquired online content-sharing site FriendFeed, BoomTown had a chit-chat with Facebook's Director of Product, Chris Cox, and FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor. Although neither… Read more »
Still No Growth in U.S. Online Retail Segment [Voices]
Someday, the e-tailing sector will grow again. But not yet. In the second quarter, U.S. online retail sales fell one percent year over year, following flat sales in the first… Read more »
VMware Forks Over $420 Million for SpringSource (Plus the Press Release, Etc.) [BoomTown]
It's certainly acquisition fever in Silicon Valley today. After it was announced that Facebook had bought FriendFeed, now comes the news that VMware has purchased SpringSource, a privately held enterprise… Read more »
Facebook Acquires Not-Twitter, Oops, FriendFeed (Plus the Full Press Release and More) [BoomTown]
Facebook said today it is acquiring FriendFeed, the online content sharing site. It is a logical fit for the social networking site, which has lagged behind microblogging kingpin, Twitter, in… Read more »
