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Article | 12/05/2009 Gartner offers IT tips to stretch e-commerce budget

E-commerce teams within IT departments must do more with less, so they need to maximize their resources through shrewd and clever management, accordin...

Article | 7/05/2009 Google seeking solution to Blogger FTP woes

People and organizations who host their Blogger blogs outside of Google have experienced technical problems with the service's FTP publishing function...

Article | 6/05/2009 MySpace expands pool of app testers for developers

MySpace developers can now make their applications available for testing to anyone who is on their list of friends at the social-networking site.

Article | 5/05/2009 Jive intros simpler SaaS version of collaboration suite

Jive Software launched on Monday a SaaS version of its enterprise collaboration suite designed to be easier and faster for organizations to set up.

Article | 1/05/2009 Google Apps gains LDAP support

Google Apps has gained a directory tool designed to simplify and accelerate the setup of this hosted collaboration and communication suite.

Article | 30/04/2009 Yahoo extends YQL Web data query platform

Yahoo released on Wednesday an extension to its YQL platform for simplifying how Web applications consume data.

Article | 28/04/2009 MySpace app dev platform still a work in progress

MySpace launched its developer program more than a year ago, and the jury is still out on how successful it will end up being.

Article | 28/04/2009 Facebook opens up 'activity stream' to external developers

Highlighting the rising popularity of real-time action notifications in social networks, Facebook will let external developers access the "activity st...

Article | 27/04/2009 MySpace's new CEO is former Facebook executive

News Corp. has chosen a former Facebook executive to lead MySpace, the company said Friday, a day after announcing that the current CEO would step dow...

Article | 24/04/2009 MySpace CEO to step down

Chris DeWolfe will hand over his CEO title at MySpace, whose growth has stagnated over the past year while the popularity of rival Facebook booms.

Article | 17/04/2009 Google profit and revenue up in Q1

Google grew its profit and revenue in the first quarter, ended March 31, despite a tough economic environment that is affecting online advertising spe...

Article | 15/04/2009 EBay plans Skype IPO next year

EBay plans to spin off Skype via an initial public offering (IPO) because the Internet telephony unit doesn't mesh with the company's two other busine...

Article | 15/04/2009 EBay to get more involved in transaction disputes

EBay is moving away from its traditional laissez-faire approach regarding buyer and seller interactions on its marketplace, and instead will get more ...

Article | 9/04/2009 MLB in social media stumble with MLB.TV blog

Major League Baseball purged all postings from an official blog in which it had candidly detailed its progress and troubles with a new media player fo...

Article | 8/04/2009 Baseball season opens with Web video problems

Major League Baseball's fee-based MLB.TV game video-streaming service is having technical problems that are affecting the quality of the Web broadcast...