“Keyhole was always scrambling to please our biggest customer, the Agency, which used our cool interface to view their own top-secret data,” he said. “Even today, the Agency is a large customer of Google’s, but their importance and influence on day-to-day development has waned since their money is no longer a significant part of Google’s [...]

Update 2:10 p.m. PDT: I added Google comment about its ad quality requirements.

“Ads will be limited to the canvas view only and certain types of ads will not be allowed. Developers are free to use any ad provider,” said iGoogle senior product manager Jessica Ewing in a statement. “To maintain the best user experience, we [...]

According to de Vreede, the “specific expertise” seats and the community founder seat will be re-appointed in January 2009. De Vreede’s post did not specify how those reappointments would be done.

“This has been under consideration for a long time, and we are glad to finally be implementing it, de Vreede wrote. “We want to acknowledge [...]

“I think it will take longer to rip and replace, but that’s certainly our ambition,” Laing said.

Over time, Laing said he wants Microsoft find its way into data centers that already use VMware.

As expected, Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has finished work on Hyper-V. For now, Microsoft is making Hyper-V available for download via [...]

Financial terms were not formally disclosed, but a source close to the deal told us that–consistent with blog reports–the capital is about $10 million.

The two companies have had a partnership in place for the past three months, and the new investment is considered to be an extension of the partnership.
So far, Gannett’s partnership with Mogulus [...]

And here’s the revenue model: Today, in addition to announcing feature improvements such as a new IE version and support for MySpace and iMeem networks, YooNo is also announcing the addition of a product recommendation pane. If you’re on a site–any site–that mentions a product, author, or artist, YouNo will scan product data from [...]

Environmental activist and author Van Jones, one of the first to recognize the power of a “green collar” job corps as a tool for social justice, has been tapped by the Obama administration to serve as special adviser for green jobs, enterprise, and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).

Under his new [...]