According to a story in AllthingsD.com today, Word Press now powers 70 million sites, up from 35 million sites a year ago. "Almost half of the biggest blogs in the world are hosted by WordPress.com" The company behind WordPress is Automattic which expects according to the story to generate $45 million in revenue this year. "The majority of Automattic revenue comes from premium … [Read more...]
33 Inducted Into The Internet Hall of Fame Including The Chairman Of ICANN Steve Crocker
33 people were just inducted as the inaugural group into the Internet Hall of Fame. Included in the group is the current Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker. "Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the ARPANET and laid the foundation for … [Read more...]
xBiz: Mawin Owner of Youporn.com Plans To Merge with Reality Kings
According to a post on xBiz.com tonight, two of the largest adult companies in the world, are planning to merger. Manwin who owns and operates many popular adult sites, including Youporn.com, filed a merger notification with Austria's Federal Competition Authority, an agency that probes mergers and acquisitions to merge with Miami-based RK Netmedia Inc. RK Netmedia, Inc most well known adult … [Read more...]
Godaddy.com & Oversee.net Both Make HostExploit’s “Top 50 Bad Hosts & Networks” List
HostExpolit publishes a quarterly list entitled "The To 50 Bad Hosts & Networks" and for the list just published today for the 1st quarter of 2012, both Godaddy.com and Oversee.com made the list. Godaddy.com came in at number 40 overall on the top 50 worst list. Oversee.net came in at number 49 overall, but was ranked number 5 in the world for "Badware". That's actual and improvement … [Read more...]
Did Rick Schwartz Just Buy The Next Category Killer Domain For Under $4k?
Rick Schwartz may have just bought the next category killer domain name for under $4k within the last month. This week the Internet has been buzzing about what is broadly called "Smart Glasses" Google's own smart glasses product has been the subject of hundreds or stories in this past week Google's smart glasses project has been referred to as Google Glasses or Project Glass. Smart … [Read more...]
Facebook Closes It Pre-IPO market at $44.10 A Share or $110 Billion Valuation
This week Facebook told the secondary market traders that they need to stop trading securities in Facebook.com in the run up to its May IPO Today Sharespost.com just closed it last offering of Facebook shares and the selling price was $44.10 a share At $44 a share the market cap of Facebook is around $110 Billion dollars which is I think more than the market cap expected by Facebook itself … [Read more...]
Yahoo Drops Meme
Yahoo has just send out a notice to uses that it is closing down it Meme program in May. Meme is a micro blogging site that was launched in August 2009. Here is the notice that went out to users today: "Meme will be discontinued on May 25, 2012. Unfortunately, the time has come to say goodbye to Meme. As part of Yahoo!’s commitment to delivering Web content and tools that matter … [Read more...]