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Viral marketing, user-generated content, online buzz: over the past few years, these terms have been representative of a new way of marketing to consumers that takes advantage of the current

SiliconBeat has published a list of all "Web 2.0 companies" that received venture backing over 2005 and so far in 2006. The list was created by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National

Electronics retailer Best Buy today announced that it plans to acquire music retailer Napster for $121 Million. According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal values Napster at $2.65 a

The latest issue of Wired magazine has a useful profile of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which Wired has elevated to number 9 in its latest Wired 40 list (it didn't

These days, everyone is talking about social media and discussing what services and tools to use, how to use them, why you should use them, etc. In fact, if you

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. We wrote recently about the renewed web browser war between Microsoft and Mozilla (and some other, smaller, usually very innovative players).

Rapleaf's Auren Hoffman says that hiring is harder in a downturn because the noise goes up but the quality stays the same. That's a pretty strong statement to make, but

You've probably heard people talking about the new "it" book: "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies." The book discusses the current trend of people using online social

Google announced the limited release of their new Gadget Ads program, which they tout as "mini versions of your website in any AdSense ad size." The rich media ads combine

University of Massachusetts researchers Nora Barnes, Ph.D. and Eric Mattson have released preliminary results of a survey of the largest US charities regarding their adoption of new social media