Clint Boulton

Looking to leverage its base of millions of professionals, LinkedIn this year will launch a primary research service to help financial services employees tap experts for advice on the social site’s network of 18 million-plus users. Mike Gamson, general manager of the LinkedIn Research Network, said the service will help hedge fund managers and investment […]

At last, several months after announcing its intent to open up its developer platform to let developers write applications for MySpace, today the social network has done just that. Because it comes nearly a year after Facebook started the social network development craze, it’s important to look at how the MySpace Developer Platform Site, as […]

It used to be that you’d stand in a line to vote for your favorite presidential candidate, passing the time by chatting with complete strangers. Now you can text strangers about your experiences, thanks to a new hook up between Google and Twitter. Google and Twitter, two of the companies trying to blaze trails with […]

To challenge Google in the paid search and online advertising businesses, Microsoft will have to focus on a few key areas regardless of whether it succeeds in acquiring Yahoo this year for $44.6 billion, CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts Feb. 4. Microsoft will have to expand its research and development efforts, create operational efficiency […]

Software programmers can now start building applications on the MySpace Developer Platform Site, which the largest social network launched Feb. 5 to capitalize on the success bred by Facebook’s wildly popular developer platform. The MySpace platform is different from Facebook’s platform in a key way. Programmers will access MySpace’s platform through an open-source API (application […]

Google is coming up with new ways to bundle its Postini security software-as-a-service assets, as the company began offering on Feb. 5 e-mail filtering, encryption and archiving software in three levels of protection for enterprises. Google, which has applied the Postini assets to Gmail since it bought the company for $625 million to better compete […]

Google came out swinging Sunday with its opposition to Microsoft’s overgenerous $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo, a sinister piece of Orwellian FUD designed to make us all believe that Microsoft is trying to control the Internet the way it does desktop software. “Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions,” wrote David Drummond, senior vice […]

With task management on the wish list of customers for Google’s Apps portfolio, one startup’s technology may be what the search giant needs to fulfill its customers’ desires. LiquidPlanner officials demonstrated at Demo 08 the week of Jan. 28 their brand of project management software, a SAAS (software-as-a-service) application that combines advanced estimation and scheduling […]

If Yahoo accepts Microsoft’s $44.6 billion purchase offer, the combined entity could help slow Google’s march in the Internet market, but Microsoft will have to rationalize several disparate software products while competing with Google in search, online ads and software-as-a-service applications.IDC analyst Karsten Weide said a merger of Yahoo and Microsoft would create a stronger […]

Microsoft’s decision to shell out $44.6 billion for a company worth less than half that much is a mistake that can only crumble the software giant’s fortress. In making such a bid, Microsoft is telling the world that it can’t make its way in this rapidly evolving market for Internet-based software and that its software-plus-services […]