Every parent knows what a Cool Parent point is, right? You know, you earn Cool Parent points in those moments when your kids don’t think you’re a nerd, a geek, too bossy, or someone who is ruining your life. You... »
Mountain View-based MyFit, which operates an online service to match students to colleges, has raised $1M in funding from New Enterprise Associates, the company said Wednesday afternoon. According to MyFit, its service analyzes college applicants'... »
About 25 people had to evacuate an Everett Avenue condominium complex Tuesday morning because of a fire at one of the building's units. There were no reported injuries.by Gennady Sheyner »
San Francisco-based Zannel, which operates an mobile service for sharing videos, pictures, and text with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and YouTube, said today it has inked a partnership with rock band KISS. Zannel said it wil... »
Mountain View-based Playdom, a developer of social games, said earlier this week that it raised $43M in a Series A investment round. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners... »
Martha Stewart’s food guru, Lucinda Scala Quinn, suggests the way to get teens to the dinner table is to cook savory dishes. Apparently, the aromas and tastes should be so compelling, any teen would throw down their cell phone, drop... »
We’ve noted a couple of recent cases in which crime suspects have been brought low by their devotion to Facebook (see “Now he can post the mug shots to his profile page” and “Facebook folly foils fraud fugitive“), but it can work the other way, too. Ju... »
As the mother of teens and tweens, it's a daily task to observe and reinforce good internet safety to my children. There was a time about ten years ago when my eldest daughter was eight years old and was on... »
Electronic Arts (ERTS) this morning said it will acquire Playfish, a creator of social network games. Terms call for ERTS to pay $275 million in cash and about $25 million equity retention agreements; the company will pay out up to another $100 million... »
Here in Slovenia we like to party like any good nation, so what better excuse than the birthday of our beloved Firefox. After all we were 2nd or 3rd to reach 50% Firefox market share, but are still licking our wounds after being pipped at the post by a... »
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