Last Friday, Wikipedia founder and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia had acquired Grub, a Web crawler that utilizes unused computer processing time on users’ computers to crawl the Internet’s pages. Users can…

AOL’s third annual “E-Mail Addiction” survey shows that e-mail has seeped into just about every crevice of our lives, including our vacations.

According to the latest comScore Media Metrix numbers, the WWE Web site was the top gaining property from May to June 2007, while Yahoo! maintained its leadership position in the list of top 50 overall Web properties for June.

According to recent numbers released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, nearly one in five Americans watch online videos on any given day. Their activity does not stop with viewing, however. Many of them forward their…

As a fan of the Simpsons, if I were to head to the movies right now, I would see that, or perhaps Transformers, except that it might no longer play in one of the nicer cineplex theaters. Perhaps, I’d start with the…

A little more than two months ago, Valueclick announced an inquiry into their lead generation practices by the FTC. As required by securities law, the company filed a Form 8-K acknowledging the receipt of a letter of…

There’s no love lost between Microsoft and Apple Computer. Since the mid-1970s Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have been pretty much obsessed with each other.

Bandai America Inc. is putting its Tamagotchi characters to work this summer as part of a tour to promote its new electronics toy line.

Toyota has been proselytizing for its hybrid cause on a national tour dubbed “Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience” with its next stop at a speedway in Indianapolis.

Last week, Microsoft added Ask Sponsored Listings to its adManager Beta search advertising service, which is part of its Microsoft Office Live platform. This week the two companies linked arms again, but this time concerning…