Comcast’s pending acquisition of General Electric’s NBC Universal was put under the microscope again Thursday as the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and The Internet of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a field hearing to investigate the proposed deal. The Federal Communications Commission is expected to restart its review of the acquisition,... 

Google has announced plans to buy ITA Software, a major provider of airline travel software, for $700 million. ITA is a prominent player in its space — it counts among its clients virtually all of the major Web travel information and booking providers, including such airlines as American and Continental as well as several aggregators like Hotwire, Kayak, Orbitz and Microsoft’s Bing. For... 

Amazon.com plans to acquire online retailer Woot.com, pioneer of the “flash sale” concept. No financial terms were officially disclosed when the deal was announced on Wednesday, though the blog TechCrunch reported that the sale was made for around $110 million in cash. Woot will operate as an independent subsidiary of Amazon once the deal closes, the companies stated. Woot would be the... 

Use a WordPress Plugin – Memory Bump is a simple WordPress plugin which can add this line to your wp-config.php file (with 256MB limit) automatically, no PHP file editing manually required. Simply install and activate the WordPress … Go here to see the original: Fix “Allowed Memory Size Exhausted” Errors with Wordpress 3.0 Upgrade  Read More →

AOL has found a buyer for its social networking site Bebo. Although the sale price is undisclosed, it is rumored that Los Angeles-based private equity fund Criterion Capital Partners snapped up the site for $10 million. If true, that price represents a steep drop from what AOL paid for it two years ago: $850 million. AOL has said it will record a tax benefit of $275 million to $325 million in the... 

This has been a busy couple of months for enterprise mobility. 2010 isn’t half over, and there are already significant changes in the enterprise mobility landscape: HP agreed to acquire Palm; SAP agreed to buy Sybase; McAfee made a deal to acquire Trust Digital; Antenna Software acquired Vaultus; BoxTone announced MSM, a super-EMM solution; there was a changing of the guard in Microsoft’s... 

Verizon with their FiOS brand and AT&T with their U-verse product have proven over the past few years that a fresh name can mean big dollars trickling down to the bottom line. XFINITY TV by Comcast will continue to face intense competition from satellite companies like DIRECTV and Dish Network . With faster internet speeds, online On-demand programming, and more HD channel selections customers... 

One of the most popular game providers on Facebook cut a deal Wednesday to bring its entertainment wares to Yahoo. Zynga — known for its infectious social media diversions “Farmville” and “Mafia Wars” — announced a partnership with Yahoo that will expose the gamemaker’s offerings to the aging portal’s more than 600 million users, although some of those... 

Yahoo and Nokia have forged a strategic partnership designed to leverage their respective strengths in email, instant messaging, maps and navigation across PC and mobile devices. As part of the deal, Nokia will be the exclusive global provider of Yahoo’s maps and navigation services, integrating Ovi Maps across Yahoo properties; such services will be branded as “powered by Ovi.”... 

Verizon Wireless could make good on its promise to get 4G wireless broadband to rural America. Here is the original post: Verizon trying to expand its 4G network  Read More →