Mike Fossum

In a recent study, environmental activist organization Greenpeace commended Google for its renewable energy rating, and now the search giant’s Finance Blog has

The foursquare Blog just announced that its geolocation service has forged a partnership with OpenTable, the online real-time restaurant reservation platform. Essentially, foursquare users can access its Explore recommendation engine to research the restaurants of a specific locality, and then …

The kind folks at DKC News just sent over an infographic covering some stats on the importance of online reputation for emerging small businesses, to compliment Yahoo! Small Business’ launch of it’s new Marketing Dashboard today. Yahoo’s data points out …

Yahoo! Small Business launched the Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard today, a free platform that allows businesses to seek out new marketing channels and to get a better picture of marketing results, site stats and brand reputation, all in one place. Below …

With a built-in audience of millions of hypochondriacs, health information services site WebMD has posted a Q1 earnings report that was slighly better than analyst projections. WebMD, which also hosts information on pet health, posted a revenue of $106.9 million, …

Geolocation platform foursquare offers its merchant users all sorts of perks, and now businesses can instantly verify themselves for a flat $10 fee. The snail mail process of verification can sometimes take up to a month, and now merchants can …

Music streaming service Spotify has just launched a long-awaited app for iPad for use by Premium service members, though trial subscribers can test it out as well. Premium Spotify users pay a monthly fee, and the content is streamed directly …

According to an internal Target memo that the Verge got ahold of, the retailer will no longer be carrying Amazon’s Kindle tablets, beginning May 13th. So far, the only explanation regarding the discontinuation of the popular product was the mention …

PayPal’s official blog has just announced that it’s WHERE advertising platform has been rebranded as the PayPal Media Network. Roughly a year ago, eBay acquired local commerce company WHERE, one of the largest mobile location-based advertising networks, and the name …

comScore’s latest survey of roughly 30,000 mobile users via its MobiLens service produced the typical findings of very little difference in the mobile market over a three month period, though Apple and its iPhone have actually achieved a full number …

Today the Google AdSense Blog announced a redesign to the AdSense payment page, which helps the payment process run more smoothly. Changes were also make to the AdSense account setting pages, and were applied to a small number of accounts, …

Google, now appearing to be more aware of the concept of licensing and patents, has just secured a copyright concerning wireless access auctions. The search giant was previous denied a similar bid in 2007, though tried again and succeeded, perhaps …

Satellite broadcast service Sirius XM Radio Inc. has posted a Q1 revenue which exceeds Wall Street expectations, mainly driven by a boost in its subscriber base. Sirius has been in the news lately over the lawsuit Howard Stern had brought …

Pagemodo has just submitted a new infographic on the results of a recent survey on the marketing benefits afforded by social media networking: Of all the businesses queried, 90% say that they use social media for marketing, and 93% of …

Today Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and CEO Sheryl Sandberg submitted a blog post urging users of the social network to disclose their organ donor status, in an initiative to save lives. Facebook members can now add their donor directives to …

It was recently reported that Google revealed in a SEC regulatory filing that it’s been under investigation in South Korea and Argentina for possible antitrust practices for some time now, and the search giant has been cooperating with the proceedings. …

Google CEO Larry Page has been mentioned in various lawsuits of late, recently taking the stand in the search giant’s copyright infringement trial with Oracle, where his demeanor was described as being evasive – and now Bloomberg reports that Page …

Arianna Huffington has chimed in with her opinion of President Obama’s new Osama Bin Laden-themed campaign ad, calling it “despicable.” Below is the ad in question, which fosters speculation as to whether or not Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would …

The trial of Oracle’s lawsuit against Google, who is suing over patent infringement regarding the use of Java in the building the Android OS, finally commenced roughly two weeks ago – 18 months after Oracle’s initial complaint – and now …

Demand Media released version 5.1 of its Pluck social media platform last Thursday, which features native Pinterest integration, and now a blog post from Pluck itself expands upon the “Pin It” button that was built into the platform’s photo and …

Apple Inc. is reportedly circumventing huge tax bills by setting up offices in tax havens all around the world, to help avoid California’s present corporate tax rate of 8.84%, amongst others. In Reno, Nevada, the corporate tax rate is 0%, …

It was recently reported that video sharing platform Viddy has revealed it’s going for $30 million in venture capitol during its series B funding, while developers are scrambling to optimize a sort of video version of the Instagram cash cow …

Demand Media, Inc., the content and social media company that operates brands including eHow and Cracked, has just seen its stock rise roughly 20% to $8.68 per share, the highest price since August. Last summer the company saw another surge …

LG Corp., the second largest electronics manufacturer in South Korea behind Samsung, is launching its own cloud services, aptly called LG Cloud. The platform is a bit different than a more orthodox cloud environment, as it’s meant to merely share …