When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many people as it needed to and not worry about profitability or [...]

Yoono, the slick browser plugin that serves as both a social network aggregator and media hub, has announced its impending support for Internet Explorer which will be available on November 7th. In conjunction with the the new version, Yoono is also announcing integration with both imeem and MySpace, as well as a powerful new widget [...]

There is nothing like a downturn to force a company focus on the bottom line, even a company like Google whose bottom line is still growing at a healthy pace. Continuing its recent efforts to juice advertising revenues wherever it can, Google is changing the way ads are placed on its search results pages.

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John McCain campaigns in Defiance, Ohio. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters
The visibly wilting Republican chooses Ohio to launch his final campaign blitz - but mascot Joe the Plumber is strangely absent
Defiance, a picture postcard town in north-west Ohio, takes its name from a fort built here in 1794 by a General “Mad” Anthony Wayne. The general was [...]

Barack Obama’s appearance on US cable channel Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart pulled in the series’ highest ever rating on Wednesday night.
Obama’s interview, which aired between 11pm and 11.30pm, EST, pulled in 3.6 million viewers in the US - beating the show’s previous high when the Democrat presidential candidate’s wife Michelle appeared [...]

Google Knol, which we’ve likened to a monetizable Wikipedia upon launch, has quietly released three international versions today, enabling French, German and Italian speaking experts (or people who like to think they are experts) to contribute so-called ‘units of knowledge’ to the site.

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Where isn’t Netflix anymore? It looks great on the 360, it’s ending up in set-top boxes and media players from multiple makers. Now, if you had the foresight to buy a Series 3, HD, or HD XL you can now stream all of Netflix’s 12,000 streaming titles.

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AT&T just sweetened the pot for all of its iPhone subscribers. If you own an AT&T iPhone, you now get free WiFi access at AT&Ts 17,000 hotspots across the country, including at most Starbucks. Although just last summer AT&T teased customers with the same freebie service, only to put up a pay wall [...]

Last month AOL began releasing parts of its new tear-down-the-walls home page strategy, allowing users to view email from Yahoo and Gmail.
Today they launch the rest of the new features. Users can log into social networks (Bebo, MySpace, Facebook and AIM) to view news feeds and update status. Bookmarks can be added to the top [...]

Banks may be required to offer interest rate relief for strapped homeowners. But it’s unclear who will qualify and if the plan would put a dent in foreclosures
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Treasury Dept. are working on a major program to prevent widespread foreclosures that would include government guarantees of home mortgages.
The [...]