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Does the name AdReady ring a bell? No? Well, if all goes as planned, in a few years it will. For everyone.
A Seattle-based startup that is – you guessed it! – all about online advertising, AdReady wants to be big. Really big. Google big. And it intends to reach such a seemingly unattainable target [...]

Update: NetSuite goes live on the NYSE today (Thurs Dec 20) with a raised price of $26 per share.
An IPO’s a-comin’! And the technological debutante having its public market premiere is none other than NetSuite.
Yes, the maker of software-by-subscription for a range of needs, including accounting, CRM (customer relationship management), and e-commerce, NetSuite [...]

Want to have VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) inside your webmail service? How about something to go along with your CRM software? Anywhere else? No problem. Ribbit will deliver on all fronts.
That’s the plan, anyhow. Ribbit, a startup in the business of providing a thoroughly adaptable VoIP platform for any and all Web [...]

Over the weekend, Om Malik (of GigaOM fame) laid bare some information that most any avid gamer might enjoy. He spoke of a brief encounter with Shawn Fanning (of Napster fame) at a holiday party, at which point he learned of the imminent public release of Rupture, a startup more than a year [...]

The evolutionary gem known as the blog has come a long way since its official origin back in the mid ‘90s. Jorn Barger, dubbed the designer of the term “weblog” (and it’s definition), claims to have started the trend – now a phenomenon of global proportions – by assembling a daily catalogue of links amassed [...]

The ad market research specialist eMarketer let loose Friday with a few numbers we thought we’d run by you. They pertain to businesses which populate the social networking space, and offer a general estimation of what to expect (for the short term) as far as future revenue for the sub-industry as a whole.
According to [...]

This recurring subject of the Windows-Internet Explorer bundle’s anti-competitive behavior, as was recently reported once more by the BBC, is, I must say, a very tired one.
Yes, it is true that Microsoft packages its Internet browser with its operating systems sold both off the shelf and as partially-subsidized software for most new PCs. And [...]

The Webby Awards, a celebratory symposium of websites (and their creators) voted by way of a public poll to be the best in their respective categories, is an annual event going into its 12th installation next year. And we would be remiss not to mention to our readers that today, November 14th, 2007, is the [...]

In late November, we shared with you some information about Classmates.com concerning the company’s then-stated intentions to be the first social Web construct to file an IPO.
Well, you can forget everything we said back then, ‘cause…uh…they changed their minds. Yes, apparently they’re not going through with it. We know, we know, quite a surprise. [...]