Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks. Yesterday Leah Culver (co-founder) posted on the official Pownce blog: “We will be [...]

Business networking site LinkedIn is joining the long list of companies that have announced cuts in the last few weeks — it has laid off 36 employees, or about 10 percent of its total staff. Last month, it announced $22.7 million in new funding, bringing its total backing to $100 million.

Since yesterday Emirates.com is down, for whom not familiar with the site, this is the Dubai based Airline and the sponsor of Arsenal football team. Yesterday their url was pointing to Network Solutions site and the Whois was showing an expired date, today you get the below error. Maybe they were very busy renewing their [...]

The Great Skype Outage Anyone using Skype will remember this one. Back in August, to the great frustration of its millions of users, Skype stopped working for almost two days. The culprit? Windows Update, apparently. RackSpace truck incident In November, a truck rammed into a power transformer and cut power to RackSpace’s Dallas data center. [...]

Aodhan Cullen calls himself a born entrepreneur. He has been running businesses since the age of 12, when he set up his own résumé-typing business. As a young teen, he dabbled in Web site design, and it was this experience that gave him the idea to launch StatCounter, the company he founded in 1999 when [...]

Google’s homepage is sporting a special logo today, indicating that the company is now nine years old. The domain registration of Google.com took place on September 15th, 1997, but the actual incorporation date of the company wasn’t until either September 7th or September 27th of 1998. With today’s special logo, it looks like Google is [...]

Psychic Whois is a domain name exploration and selection tool. It knows about all of the currently registered domains and it knows every single dropped domain. Though this tool is still in beta, however it can be still be used safely.

I have seen this add inside the bus that took us from the plane to the arrival terminal at Pristina airport in Kosovo. I was wondering how someone can remember such a complex website address unless he is carrying his camera or he is German? To make things easier for you and save time on [...]