It's arbitrary milestone day! 90 Seconds on The Verge has hit the big six-zero, which by our calculations means we're about 90 minutes old. 90 minutes of 90 Seconds feels like something nice and even — plus we're now officially a feature-length film! Sure, it's a rather repetitive film that...
Reflect with us on our halcyon minutes of yore
Neither Jon Stewart nor Bill O'Reilly are shy when it comes to expressing their political opinions, and soon the pair will be debating live — and they're taking the fight straight to the internet. On October 6th the duo will be livestreaming an...
In-flight Wi-Fi usage hasn't necessarily "taken off" since its introduction in the US over four years ago, and now primary provider Gogo looks to be raising its prices by quite a bit. Pando Daily's Paul Carr noticed a steep hike on his flight today on Virgin America from San Francisco to JFK. Arguably the most useful choice, a full-flight pass, is no longer available on that flight; instead,...
Facebook today began testing brand new ads on your smartphone, but surprisingly not inside the Facebook app itself. You might find them inside external apps and even mobile websites you've connected to Facebook, TechCrunch reports. The new ads will be catered to you based on your age, gender, where you live, and what you're interested in — just like ads on the Facebook website.
Back in June, Facebook began surfacing Sponsored Stories alongside games on Zynga's website, a seemingly obvious sign of a looming external ad network to compete with Google, which shows ads inside apps like Gmail but also on other websites. While Facebook and Zynga operated on a profit-sharing agreement, the company's new ads operate inside of an ad exchange where advertisers bid on specific demographics without having any access to information about you....
Yet another crack at monetizing mobile
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The popular news forum and internet cultural powerhouse Slashdot was just sold to Dice Holdings, a network of tech-oriented recruiting sites including Dice.com and eFinancialCareers.com. The union caused some head-scratching at first. Why would a square careers site want to buy a nerd forum...
Slashdot, SourceForge, and Freecode have been acquired by Dice Holdings, a company that specializes in professional and career websites like the (tech-focused) Dice.com. The three websites were all owned by Geeknet, and they've been purchased by...
Google just announced that it has signed a new content agreement with Twentieth Century Fox that will bring many of the studio's most popular TV shows and movies to Google Play and YouTube. In total, over 600 titles will be added to Google's digital storefront as part of the...
