Building database sources and constructing queries intimidate the typical Internet user. Blist founder and CEO Kevin Merritt believes databases should serve people, instead of the other way around.

Since Imeem somehow managed to sign deals with all four major record labels, we don’t think arranging this new agreement put a major strain on the company.  Still, Imeem’s acquisition of Anywhere.FM appears to be an important step forward in its development.

eBay has announced that its online payment service PayPal will purchase Fraud Sciences Ltd. in a cash transaction for $169 million.

Throughout the past month or so, Google’s stock has taken a well-documented beating.  The company remains massive, though (with a market cap of $177 billion), and new reports indicate that Google may build the world’s largest server farm in Malaysia.

A group with al Qaeda ties in Iraq released a video Sunday that showed two police officers repenting their past actions and turning their weapons over to insurgents.

The video featured the two men smiling and no armed insurgents were seen around as in previous videos. The group did not reveal how the men had defected or been captured or what their fate was.

As one of the biggest brands on the Internet, Yahoo’s competitors envy the traffic Yahoo receives. On Wall Street, analysts only see gridlock.

A year after the first Data Protection Day in Europe, Google will be part of the celebration of the now-renamed Data Privacy day, aimed at educating people about their data and how to manage it.

Buyers on eBay save billions of dollars each year, according to a research study that won’t make sellers happy.

A recent article by Zoli Erdos really got me to thinking about startup hiring. The article was titled "Startups: Executive Hiring Challenges or Beware of the Suits".