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There have been a lot of reports today about Google losing another top executive to Facebook. The person in question is Elliot Schrage, who is the VP of global communications and public affairs for Google, or was up until a few days ago. Elliot will now be taking up a new job in the same [...]

This is a guest post from Ashraf Mansoor who is the founder of Twffaha.com, a job site intended for women in the Middle East.
Not A Luxury
Everyday we run into hundreds of web applications, be it clones for already successful businesses (Mixx to Digg) or original creative ideas. The potential of growth on the web [...]

Startup directories have long been the main place to head to find information about upcoming and established startups. Directories tend to be matched nicely with leading technology blogs, but recently I have noticed that there arent too many standalone directories anymore. Thus, I thought I would put together a list of directories to see which [...]

For a long time now there has been a search engine that has been totally forgotten about, that search engine is Dogpile. Dogpile is a meta-search engine that is currently owned by Infospace. I was browsing the site this afternoon and suddenly noticed that there werent any search ads in the results. Im so used [...]

I have noticed while surfing Techcrunch that they have added a new feature today, that they plan to announce tomorrow. The feature in question is Seesmic, and at the bottom of every post now on Techcrunch users have the option to add a video comment. This inclusion was really only a matter of time, due [...]

It has already been reported by the BBC and the New York Times that Google should become the largest advertising seller in the UK by the end of the year.
Google earned $803 million, about £407 million, in the United Kingdom in the first quarter. If you assume that rate won’t grow, that makes £1.6 billion [...]

Yesterday I wrote about the Rubicon Project and how they have launched into public beta. The site itself is amazing. Overall it is a brilliant package that has been put together for over a year by a dedicated team of about 40 members. This all being said, yesterday I did a test of their service [...]

Mashable is one of the worlds largest technology based blogs, and they are obviously in the same market as us but there is now way at the moment they are our competitors. Anyways, that all being said I have noticed some big changes over at Mashable. Pete now seems to have a lot of fulltime [...]

Twitter is now a service that has been on the rise for over a year. This being said there are more and more Twitter related applications being launched, but still no monetization strategy for Twitter directly.
Last week Twhirl, a Twitter Adobe AIR application was sold to Seesmic, making this the first AIR application which has [...]

The soap opera that is Microsoft bid for Yahoo is continuing. Firstly it is reported by the WSJ that Yahoo is closing in on a merger with AOL. If the deal goes through, the two companies would combine their web and internet based services. Yahoo! would reportedly use some of the revenue from a merger [...]