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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Mobile Social Network Mozat Makes Waves In Asia, Raises Funding	Mozat, the mobile social networking platform formerly known as Morange, is making strides in Asia and the Middle East. The eponymous company behind the app has just announced that it has surpassed 10 million registered users, predominantly based in those regions. The startup has also disclosed that it raised a Series A funding round led by JAFCO Asia earlier this year, although it didn’t disclose the size of the investment. Mozat is in the mobile social networking business, and markets fr...	December 16, 2009
Source: Critical Path Close To Acquiring ShoZu	Mobile services startup ShoZu is in talks to be acquired by Critical Path, a well-placed source with access to inside information tells us. Critical Path’s board of directors and shareholders may have approved the acquisition yesterday. At the very least, Critical Path is in late-stage negotiations. We don’t know the price, but it most likely isn’t out of the ballpark. The sale of ShoZu, backed by $36 million in venture capital, is not going to bring much of a return to it...	December 15, 2009
Google's New DNS Service Has One Major Flaw: Poor Performance	Last week, when Google (GOOG) announced on its blog that the company getting into the DNS business, many people on the web wanted to debate whether or not it would give Google too much control over the Internet, by questioning how Google would use the data that's collected. While I don't disagree that it is a valid concern, since no one is being forced to use Google's DNS offering, to me, that's not the real story.What we should be discussing as an industry is the performance of Google's Public ...	December 15, 2009
Google Gets Into The DNS Business. Here’s What That Means	Google just announced Google Public DNS, a new service that lets consumers use Google as their DNS service provider. The benefits to users are a theoretically faster and more stable browsing experience, and some additional security against malware type sites. The benefit to Google – tons more data, and some potential revenue. Here are the basic instructions on how to use it (and Google has even provided phone support). The service competes directly with Sequoia and Greylock backed OpenDNS,...	December 03, 2009
AT&T Takes On The White House On Net Neutrality	Now they’ve done it. The White House has gone and made AT&T (T) mad. As the Washington Post reports today, a war of words has broken out between Ma Bell and the Obama Administration over recent remarks by White House deputy chief technology officer Andrew McLaughlin, who said the issues of free speech and network neutrality are “intrinsically linked.” In a blog post earlier this week, the Post quoted McLaughlin comparing AT&T’s opposition to net neutrality to Chin...	November 25, 2009
SPDY Gonzales: Google Continues Its Push To Take The Web To Breakneck Speeds	Google is obsessed with speed. By many accounts its Chrome web browser is already the fastest out there, and it runs laps around the two big boys: Firefox and IE. But that’s not good enough for Google. And so now they’re also working on their own web content transportation protocol. To be clear, despite some of the wording ins its blog post, SPDY (pronounced “speedy”) isn’t about fully replacing HTTP, the standard web protocol since 1996, but it is about augmenting ...	November 12, 2009
Ask.com, Microsoft and AOL - Internet Love Triangle?	I remember hearing a few weeks ago that Diller would consider selling Ask.com (IACI) (formally AskJeeves.com). I immediately thought of 2 suitors, Microsoft (MSFT) (Bing) and AOL.com (TWX). Both companies have made deals to increase their reach. Microsoft is making a deal with Yahoo (YHOO) and Aol purchased Bebo. AOL will be out of TWX soon and will need some kind of growth since its ISP business is all but dead....	November 04, 2009
Twitter And Bing Shutdown In China As Tiananmen Date Looms	It’s widely known that China runs a pretty tight ship - to put it mildly - on what its citizens get to see online, especially that content which is served from outside of China. YouTube has been blocked for some time and although Wikipedia was blocked for a while, it’s gradually become more available. However today Chinese authorities have brought the the Great Wall of China on a number of services including Twitter, Flickr, Bing, Live.com, Hotmail, Blogger and a number of other site...	June 02, 2009
Time Warner To Decide On AOL Spinoff At Thursday Board Meeting (It’s A Done Deal, Supposedly)	Last month Time Warner announced that it would likely spin off its AOL assets into a new company, followed by an IPO (10Q SEC filing is here). Little detail was given about the transaction, other than the fact that Google’s 5% stake in AOL would be repurchased. But exactly when the transaction would occur, and what assets it would include, were left unstated. New CEO Tim Armstrong will lead the independent company. Sources close to AOL tell us that the board of directors will make a final ...	May 27, 2009
Will Carriers Save The Subscription Music Business?	The news this week that Napster is relaunching with a $5-a-month subscription plan that includes 5 free MP3 downloads would appear to be a troubling development for RealNetworks‘ (RNWK) rival Rhapsody service, which will set you back $13 a month for a streaming service that lacks the free MP3s. It is also no doubt irritating to Real that it comes from a company that is now a unit of Best Buy (BBY): in the past, the Best Buy digital music store was a re-branded version of Rhapsody, which ca...	May 22, 2009