Clint Boulton

StrikeIron, which offers a cache of Web services for businesses to consume, said on Sept. 12 that it has partnered with IBM to deliver Web services through QEDWiki, IBMs enterprise mashup software. QEDWiki is a Web-based assembly tool used to create mashups, or applications that cull data from more than one source. Some analysts have […]

AOL completed the final stage of its evolution to becoming a full-blown Web media company on Sept. 17, moving its corporate headquarters to New York City and unveiling an integrated ad platform that incorporates online advertising assets from five acquisitions. AOLs headquarters will be based at 770 Broadway, where Platform A will offer advertisers access […]

Market-leading phone maker Nokia on Sept. 17 moved to bolster its mobile advertising front by agreeing to acquire Enpocket for an undisclosed sum. Boston-based Enpocket makes a mobile advertising campaign management and delivery system that uses analytics technologies to draw a bead on consumer interests and deliver mobile advertising via SMS (Short Message Service), MMS […]

What’s that they say about how to serve revenge? Days after Microsoft shredded Google Apps in a top 10 FUD list, Google dug another hole for the grave that will likely be reserved for the Microsoft’s Open Office XML (OOXML) specification. Zaheda Bhorat, a member of the search vendor’s open source team, wrote Sept. 14 […]

It’s official. Google has sealed the deal for Internet security and compliance software maker Postini, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the search and software maker, according to a blog post published yesterday by David Girouard, Google’s Enterprise guru. Google made some serious waves when it announced the $625 billion bid July 9, […]

Google, which has weathered fierce criticisms for the way it harvests and retains data on users Web searches, called on Sept. 14 for world governments and fellow tech companies to support the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Privacy Framework. APECs goals are aimed at striking a balance between sharing information over the Internet and protecting users rights […]

You know it’s a slow news day when news sites and bloggers everywhere are dishing about the Google Jet co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page use to scoot around the world, or, as Danny Sullivan wrote, to “sales and business meetings.” Apparently, for $1.3 million a year, Page and Brin can “park their customized wide-body […]

BSG Alliance, one of a number of nascent on-demand software enablers, said Sept. 13 it will acquire software-as-a-service collaboration specialist Kalivo for an undisclosed sum. BSG, of Austin, Texas, also appointed former Microsoft executive Steve Douty president of its applications and infrastructure division, BSG Applications, which provisions, manages and secures software for on-demand environments. Douty […]

In a move that further underscores Google’s quest for the the online ad dollar, the search company has quietly noted that it is moving AdWords onto its Google Mobile Search product. “If your text ads are eligible to appear on Google Mobile Search pages, they will run for free through November 18, 2007. You can […]

The booming mobile search advertising will grow 112 percent within five years, making it imperative for market leader Google to take steps to defend itself against a search-hungry Microsoft, according to an analyst from The Kelsey Group. The slowdown in traditional search engine growth is one of the reasons mobile search advertising sales will balloon […]