Archive for January, 2008
Twitter and Joyent Split Amidst Downtime Travails
Update: According to an ARIN lookup, Twitter appears to be hosted by Verio now.
According to Joyent’s corporate blog, the company stopped hosting Twitter late last night:
Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday’s posts here and here regarding the two companies working together. […]
Yahoo To Announce Large Video Acquisition—Maven Networks For $150 Million.
We’ve gotten word that Yahoo will make an acquisition announcement of a video startup today or tomorrow. At first we thought the target might be Metacafe, which was almost acquired by Yahoo just following the Google/YouTube deal in 2006. Shortly after, it made a small acquisition in Jumpcut, a Web-based video editor. But It’s […]
Wireless Spectrum Auction Might Be Over For Coveted C-Block. But Who Won, Google or Verizon?
Update: It looks like some of us jumped the gun on calling this, including the New York Times. It turns out that there are still enough bidding units left in the C-Block for one or two deep-pocketed companies to still make a bid. So it is not necessarily over yet. Because of […]
1-800-FREE411 Sells Out Half Its Ad Inventory For the Year, Growth Steadies.
What’s not to love about free 411 calls? Jingle Networks, which operates 1-800-FREE411, says it has sold out its entire inventory of sponsorship ads for 2008. These are ten-second audio spots that you listen to before you get your free directory assistance from national sponsors like AMC Theaters, Earthlink, Cablevision, McDonald’s, Miller Brewing, […]
