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Facebook Borrows $100 Million for Growth Purposes
By Janet Meiners - Sun, 05/11/2008 - 11:06am.
Facebook is borrowing $100 million to accommodate growth on the site. The money, from venture loan firm TriplePoint, brings the amount raised to around $350 million. The site has grown quickly and needs around 50,000 more servers to handle the load. Facebook has over 70 million active users and around 109 million monthly visitors.
Reznor's Bad Internet Tax Idea
By Mathew Ingram - Thu, 01/10/2008 - 3:12pm.
There’s a great interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails up at CNET, in which he talks about his experience with the Saul Williams album he recently released as a “pay what you want” download (which I wrote about here).
MSN Money Wants Its Day In The Sun
By David A. Utter - Tue, 12/18/2007 - 1:22pm.
Overcoming the inertia that keeps people going to other financial sites confronts Chris Jolley, group manager at Microsoft's Financial Products Group, every day. He believe MSN Money deserves a look.
AOL Cashes In Money & Finance Beta
By David A. Utter - Fri, 11/30/2007 - 12:58pm.
AOL will go head to head with Yahoo Finance as well as competition from Google and Microsoft, with all of these big Internet players looking for valuable financial news readers.
Blogs Giving Mainstream Media a Run for its Money
By Lisa McNeill - Tue, 11/20/2007 - 12:06pm.
Last week I read an interesting article by the Alley Insider that I’ve been dying to share - mainly because it included the following Nielsen chart that revealed an interesting comparison of sites.
Secret To Monetizing Your Site
By Mike McDonald - Tue, 11/13/2007 - 1:06pm.
So maybe you're thinking to yourself; Hey, I need to start making some money online. Maybe you're one of those that had that thought a while ago now... but aside from maybe the being online part… you're still pretty much at square one. Or, maybe you are actually making a little money online but wouldn't be averse to making a little (or a lot) more.
Google Android Wants Developers but...
By Robert Scoble - Mon, 11/12/2007 - 5:23pm.
So, I’m watching the Android video and talking with my friends who are developers. Man, I thought my videos were boring, this one takes the cake.
Steve Jobs does NOT have to worry about losing his job to the folks from Google.
I didn’t see ONE feature that will get normal people to switch from the iPhone. This comes across like something developers developed for other developers without thought of how they were going to build a movement.
States Ask Feds For More Microsoft Oversight
By David A. Utter - Thu, 10/18/2007 - 1:34pm.
Provisions of Microsoft's antitrust settlement involving oversight by the federal courts will end in November, and some attorneys general have demanded an extension of that ongoing supervision.
Refer People to Amazon MP3s, Earn Money
By Philipp Lenssen - Wed, 10/17/2007 - 3:58pm.
Amazon recently launched their copyright-restriction-free MP3 download service AmazonMP3.com (with around 2 million songs, but available to US customers only).
Money Week For Yahoo, eBay, & Google
By David A. Utter - Mon, 10/15/2007 - 7:19pm.
Quarterly earnings reports from three of the Internet's most prominent brands hit the markets this week.
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