Seattle’s once fast-growing MySpace operation appears to be one of the offices to take a hit in the company’s layoff of 400 employees.
In a memo obtained by Alley Insider, Chief Executive Owen Van Natta — a former Amazon.com executive — said that all divisions of the company were affected in the 30 percent cut. And he said [...]

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President Barack Obama today proposed wide ranging financial regulations that could touch the venture capital industry, possibly requiring investors in early-stage companies to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Some venture capitalists I’ve spoken to don’t like the idea of being lumped together with hedge funds and private equity shops, which they view as [...]

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Time will tell if this is a temporary blip or a permanent trend, but it like those Bing ads may be working. Numbers released by the comScore Networks research firm today show Microsoft’s new search engine continuing to boost the company’s position in the U.S. market.
Bing’s "average daily searcher penetration" rose to 16.7 percent last [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — Internet video leader YouTube Inc.’s losses have been overblown by some analysts, but corporate parent Google Inc., more 

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, more  and Apple iPhone Software: Developers See Green  , more 
and Coming Quickly to Your TV: Gesture Control  , more 
Van Natta Cuts Jobs at MySpace  , more 

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How could we pass up this opportunity? In conjunction with its new Internet Explorer online advertising campaign, directed by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, Microsoft made the actor and director available for an interview this afternoon. Read on for excerpts — starting with our question about how Goldthwait’s Microsoft advertising experience stacks up against one of his [...]

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The cuts amount to about 420 people, bringing the total number of MySpace’s U.S. staff to 1,000., more  and New Opera technology allows simple content sharing  Norway’s Opera Software on Tuesday launched a new feature for its Internet browser allowing users to share photos, music and files directly with one another, without needing to go through [...]

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Meteor Solutions, which helps companies track conversations as they travel through social media sites, has named Taddy Hall as chief operating officer. Hall, the co-author of the “The Online Advertising Playbook,” is the former Chief Strategy Officer for the Advertising Research Foundation.
Marchex, the Seattle online search and advertising company, said in a regulatory filing that [...]

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Clearwire continues its march to spread broadband wireless service across the country, with the Kirkland company today officially announcing that its service is available in Atlanta. The move is hardly a surprise since several blogs noted that Clearwire had quietly begun offering WiMax service there last month.
But Clearwire today said that Atlanta is now home to the [...]

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Doctors. Lawyers. Restaurants. Hotels. Soccer coaches. Wines. Books. Professors.
Everything and everybody will get some sort of Web rating in the future. That’s the premise of an excellent piece in The Atlantic Monthly, which focuses on one of the biggest proponents of the Web rating phenomenon: Zillow.com co-founder Rich Barton.
Here’s how author Kevin Maney starts the report:
Rich [...]

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