How considerate of Facebook to wait until Read/WriteWeb's Facebook Week to announce their first major acquisition. For an as-yet-undisclosed sum, Facebook has acquired Parakey, a Web OS company founded by Continue reading »

The good news for Google keeps coming from comScore. Yesterday, comScore revealed that despite a slight dip in search marketshare in June, Google's lead over second place Yahoo! in the Continue reading »

I noticed a small, but perhaps significant, change in Facebook tonight. Usually when you add more friends to your Facebook account, you need to land on 3 separate pages for Continue reading »

With potentially devastating royalty rates looming this weekend, a deal was brokered last night that will allow some US Internet radio stations to stay online at least a little while Continue reading »

Bay Partners, a San Francisco area venture capital fund that invests in Eventful, PicksPal, and Riya among others, has announced AppFactory a seed fund aimed at developers on the Facebook Continue reading »

Just a week after acquiring online telephony service GrandCentral, Google has announced the $625M purchase of Postini - a company that offers "on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more Continue reading »

I've mentioned Openads, a free open source ad server, twice in the last few months here on Read/WriteWeb. I continue to be very interested in their business model; but also Continue reading »

Europe's burgeoning startup culture just got another boost, with the launch of Seedcamp - a project to support Europe's young entrepreneurs, by giving them funding and contacts. It's very similar Continue reading »

One year ago, the new-look netscape.com launched. What was once the leading portal in the 90's was re-born in June 2006 as a digg clone. Soon after the re-launch, there Continue reading »

German courts have confirmed that Google's fight for the G-mail trademark has been lost. 33-year old German businessman Daniel Giersch has won a case against Google, meaning that Google is Continue reading »