The future of the cash for clunkers program is in doubt, but consumers should remain wary of fraudulent sites that claim to be associated with it.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a consumer alert noting that only one Web site, Cars.gov, is the official destination for the Car Allowance Rebate System.
The Washington Post on Wednesday is unveiling a new mobile version of its Web site as it seeks to catch up to the competition in the mobile arena and exploit a rare area of promise for newspapers.
“Look at this fucking hipster” was a universally recognized gibe before it became a Web site.
Brooke Hammerling (publicist) and Erin McKean (entrepreneur) are in a Sand Hill Road conference room, hashing out plans to unveil Ms. McKean’s new Web site, Wordnik.
Philip Kaplan lampooned the Internet bubble in the early 2000s with his Web site F—edCompany. Now he’s evaluating companies from a decidedly different vantage point.
The New York Post yesterday ran a squishy story with the nifty headline “Fear Grips Google,” that seems to be the talk of the tech blogosphere today on a fairly news-less Monday. The thesis is that the search giant has sprung into action out of concern of some of the early kudos Microsoft is getting for Bing, its new search engine.
Law-enforcement officers have long criticized Craigslist for not doing enough to prevent illegal activity among its users. The popular classified-ad Web site went on the defensive again last month after a 22-year-old medical student was charged with murdering a woman who advertised massage services on Craigslist.
The Knot is launching 75 new localized sites in the hopes of reaching brides-to-be from Tampa to Tucson.
David Liu, CEO of the wedding Web site, said the idea is to provide the “ingredients” that people planning weddings seek out. Brides are best served by content available in their specific location, he said. Likewise, wedding vendors want to advertise in bridal outlets that target a region.
The newspaper is dead. You can read all about it online, blog by blog, where the digital gloom over the death of an industry often veils, if thinly, a pallid glee. The Newspaper Death Watch, a Web site, even has a column titled “R.I.P.” Or, hold on, maybe the newspaper isn’t quite dead yet. At its funeral, wild-eyed mourners spy signs of life. The newspaper stirs!
You might be familiar with phishing attacks, those messages sent by criminals that look like they’re from a bank or Nigerian prince. But what about Twishing?
The term may enter the tech lexicon this week, thanks to an attack targeting the Web site Twitter, which runs a popular service that lets people share short updates about what they’re doing.
Another day, another case where someone tried to blame a Web site for the actions of its users. In this case, a guy used the Web site SexSearch (seriously) to find someone to have sex with (ah, the Internet…). The woman he met claimed in her profile that she was 18 years old.
Imagine this: You’re an independent filmmaker and your first animated feature is getting rave reviews. It’s being shown at dozens of festivals around the world, and is taking home prestigious awards, such as that of Germany’s Berlinale festival. But unless you can come up with the $220,000 that music publishers are demanding, it will never see a commercial release. What do you do?
How fitting that in the same week Playboy Enterprises’s longtime CEO Christie Hefner announces her departure, her brand launches an ambitious series of mobisodes. Say what you will about the ups and downs of Playboy, I always admired Hefner’s devotion to digital.
The idea for a virtual world focused on the Islamic lifestyle began five years ago, when CEO Mohamed El-Fatatry moved from Dubai to Finland in order to attend university. Raised in Dubai, El-Fatatry wanted wider horizons and a chance to see more of life.
China-based Baidu’s earnings estimates have dropped sharply following the recent controversy involving the company’s connection to some unlicensed medical firms via search-related advertising. One Hong Kong analyst dropped his earnings forecast by five percent for this year and 19 percent for 2009.
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