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Blockbuster, one of the nation's largest video-rental companies, has acquired Movielink, a video-on-demand service owned by five of the top six movie studios.

New York based Clipmarks, a del.icio.us-like social bookmarking service, may have been acquired by Forbes. We have no information on the size of the transaction, but my guess is that it was on the very low side.

Max Levchin already changed electronic commerce as a co-founder of PayPal, an online payment service that is expected to process more than $40 billion in transactions this year.

Silicon Valley is the southern part of San Francisco's Bay Area, stretching from the city to San Jose. This is one of the top research and development centres in the world; wherever you look someone is having a good…

Just check out some large web 2.0 application directories at bottom, you may find that either small or portal sites are more willing to be web 2.0 style.

Ever since the first Amazon Web Service was released in mid-2002, we have encouraged developers to use them to create new types of businesses.

have a confession to make. I have tried out hundreds of Web 2.0 applications, and there is one and only one that I use almost every day. You see, the problem with Web 2.0 is that I'm not a social person.

Lorelle VanFossen is passionate. An author, travel writer and nature photographer, she also has a popular blog about, well, blogging. Her pet peeve is online plagiarism, which she encounters nearly every day.

A new study being published by the University of Texas and Chitika says that the top 50,000 blogs may have generated around $50 million in aggregate 2006 revenue.

Iceberg on Demand is declaring war on software, according to Co-Founder and head of product development Wayne Byrne.

Thomas Baekdal lists 7 tipps for successful viral marketing.

Seattle based BuddyTV (Advanced Media Research Group Inc.) has taken $2.8 million in Series A funding in a round led by Gemstar-TV Guide International.

Now you may not recognize the name Steve Wozniak. He never really did anything important. He had a hand in starting some little company, named after a piece of fruit or something.

Finding the right buyer is often more important than your valuation.

New technologies, a proliferation of resources, and a disenchantment with the corporate world are making Generation Y the most entrepreneurial in history. From magazine publishing to delivering fresh-baked cookies, the…

Do You Have What it Takes to Go into Business for Yourself?

Wikia has acquired the distributed web crawling engine Grub from Looksmart.

On the Web, anyone can be a mapmaker.

The Internet is largely a communications medium. It's also used for content distribution, commerce, and a number of other things. But the thing I do most on the Internet is communicate. Via email, Skype, instant…

The software development framework has earned a vocal following and created loyal users. One Ruby expert explains what this community did right, and how others can learn from it.

Maybe it's the sand and surf, or the proximity to Hollywood, but venture capitalists are waking up to Southern California.

Facebook may be the darling of the web 2.0 press, but it was MySpace that grabbed the most attention from consumers in June.

Sport social networking site TAKKLE is always making news. Today the startup announced that it has raised additional funding from Sports Illustrated and the New York City Investment Fund along with TAKKLE's original…

Inside a midtown hotel, Larry Fischer is on his cell phone with a financial backer as his partner Ari Goldberger does quick research on a laptop computer. They are bidding furiously at this auction of Internet domain…

Learning Curve Before founding HedgeStop, Christopher Carlevato (left) earned a computer engineering degree and Daniel Carroll studied finance and marketing.