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Security firm Symantec has identified the top 100 searches conducted by children online. Popular items in the list include some expected entries like YouTube, Facebook, and MySpace as well as

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/NASDAQ_Internet_Index_Announced_The_Internet_Gets_a_Stock_Index'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Ok bubble prognosticators, start your engines: the Nasdaq stock market today announced the creation of a new index tracking only

In a surprise move just unveiled this morning, a handful of big players led by MySpace and Yahoo! have announced that public profiles, photos, videos and friend networks will now

We're starting to see a lot of startups either shutting down, fading away or being put up for sale. The latest is Talkr, an automated text-to-voice service that we actually

The Hard Man of 2.0, Ben Barren, takes out his nutcracker and starts crunching the numbers of Internet companies. Wielding financial methodologies, Ben intends to get some REAL analysis happening

In May 2006, eBay quietly acquired a microfinance company called MicroPlace, which it said was part of an "ongoing initiative ... focused on maximizing our corporate resources to continue to

Alertle isn't your typical start page. A web-based RSS reader at its core, Alertle is really a new way of surfing the web.  The service allows you to "visit" various web sites

Written by Sramana Mitra I have written a few pieces already addressing the disjointed nature of the web, whereby, you go one place for content, another for community, and a

As Dilbert knows, everything is a platform today. The trouble is, some very smart people are trying to figure out the definition of what makes a platform. Although a lot

PayPal announced what it calls the first global payment platform open to outside developers today. The company said it believes the move will make PayPal a bigger business than eBay