The UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) today issued a report showing an additional 250 million people came online in 2012 and estimated by end 2013 that 40% of the world will be online, but 1.1 billion households, or 4.4 billion people will remain unconnected. The findings came in the ITU’s flagship annual report Measuring the Information Society 2013. By end 2013 there will … [Read more...]
Google/Mastercard/Amex/Paypal/Discover Go After After MugShots.com & Mug Shot Removal Sites
According to Cnet.com, Google along with credit card processors Mastercard, Amex, Discover and Paypal are going after sites like MugShots.com (Cnet actually put that one on top of their article which appears above) Sites like Mugshots.com, take public Mug Shot photos from law enforcement and put them up on the site where … [Read more...]
DomainNameSales.com Intergrates Make Offer For Sale Domains On Godaddy & DomainTools.com
DomainNameSales.com, announced today that they have new integrations with Godaddy.com and DomainTools.com that allow its customers to list the domain names in their DomainNameSales.com account on a make-offer basis at Godaddy.com and DomainTools.com. When a Godaddy or DomainTools customer conducts an exact match search of a DomainNameSales.com customer’s domain name they will be directed to an … [Read more...]
Autobytel Sells AutoWeb.com With Trademark For $1.5 Million To AutoWeb & Launches PPC Network
According to a press release out today, as part of a bigger transaction AutoWeb has acquired the domain name AutoWeb.com and related trademarks from Autobytel (Nasdaq: ABTL), for $1.5 million in AutoWeb stock. Here is the full release: ""Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq: ABTL), the company dedicated to helping automotive consumers and dealers connect online, announced it has invested $2.5 million in … [Read more...]
Founders Institute Fi.co Incubator Portfolio of Companies Has A Valuation of $5 Billion
TechCrunch.com just covered The Founders Institute which uses the domain name Fi.co, is an incubator, and just hit a big milestone, more than 1,000 companies have graduated from the program. "Instead of targeting twenty something programmers who have already started working on new companies, the companies founder Adeo Ress said his team created “a structured process” that would allow people … [Read more...]
ICANN Names Inventor Of DNS As Security Advisor To The Generic Domains Division
ICANN today announced that Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), has agreed to serve as Senior Security Advisor to the Generic Domains Division and its President, Akram Atallah. "The Domain Name System has met the needs of the Internet for secure and reliable service and growth in size and function," said Mockapetris. "I'm looking forward to helping ICANN … [Read more...]
TechCrunch Covers Another Company Built Around.TV: IRIS.TV Raises $1.7 Million
TechCrunch.com covered yet another startup that just got some angel funding and is built around a .TV domain name. IRIS.TV which was founded by the folks behind Jukebox TV is coming to market with $1.7 million in seed funding from angels in the media and finance world, including folks like Bob Jacobs, who was Bill Cosby’s long-time agent and is considered the … [Read more...]