Remember when Google launched Tags, a local advertising up-sell aimed at local small businesses? Companies like Yelp and YellowPages certainly do, and they've joined a few other local directory sites in launching a competing product by the same name.Techcrunch reports that about a dozen sites, all feeling the heat from...
This week on ReadWriteBiz, we're running down our list of recommended New Year's resolutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Today we discuss the importance of bolstering information security in 2011.A few weeks back, we looked at how small businesses have a tendency to be less-than-diligent about data security. Not cool,...
During the holidays, the Web becomes an even more significant part of our lives, connecting us to our relatives and friends around the world. The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. Together with 40 Nordic entrepreneurs, we decided to...
This week on ReadWriteBiz, we're running down our list of recommended New Year's resolutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Today we talk about how to better allocate scarce resources to build a more effective social media strategy in 2001.Social media has exploded over the last few years and as 2010...
2010 was a good year for Web startups. Deal flow, particularly at early stages, was active, and even though valuations were high, investor dollars were seemingly at the ready. Of the companies that made headlines and that led some of the major tech trends of the year, many were startups:...
It's the last Wrap-up of 2011! The top story of the week was a big one: Just in time for the holidays when millions of people are using Skype to connect with loved ones, the company's network cratered, dropping from 20 million connections to about 200,000 in a matter of...
In 2010, it felt like the flurry of new startups and Web tools only accelerated, with more and more products popping up every week. For business owners, it's not always easy to stay on top of it all, let alone take each of these new offerings for a spin to...
On Tuesday, LinkedIn decided to sit us all down for an honest heart-to-heart. The buzz words we've been using in our LinkedIn profiles, they told us, are a bit much. The company released a list of 10 phrases that are overused across millions of profiles, such as "innovative," "motivated," "results-oriented"...
This week we discovered that Yahoo was "sunsetting" Delicious, the social bookmarking service. Does that mean shutting it down? Selling it? Who knows, but Marshall Kirkpatrick's lament for the potential loss was our top story. As part of our annual year-end series on top products and developments we looked at...
We started this week with a quote from EFF's co-founder: "The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops." It's a battle that has enthralled hundreds of thousands of our readers and made our coverage of WikiLeaks the top stories of the...
You don't have to be United State government to recognize risks of having lax data security practices in place these days. And while larger organizations have robust IT departments, small companies often don't have the luxury of a huge budget. Fortunately, there are a number of very simple ways in...
During this week's roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming...
Mozilla's new programming language (called Rust) may have been the top story of this last week, but our annual year-end series on top products and developments was almost as popular. Richard MacManus kicked off the series with the top 10 semantic Web products; we also looked at the top startups...
A new iPhone and iPad jailbreak always top our list of the week's biggest stories and this week was no different. Spoiler if you haven't read the post yet: It's a tethered jailbreak for iPhones, which can be a real pain (something I found out the hard way). In our...
Keeping up with every RSS feed item and tweet is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone trying to run a business. That's why at the end of every week, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses.There was a slew of...
This was a good week to be an Android developer, a bad week to be a woman on Facebook, and - if you had $360,000 on hand - your first chance to buy up 50% of the Twitter firehose. (As of right now it's flowing at about 1,000 Tweets every...
A few weeks back, we rounded up four ways to attend meetings on an iPad and more recently our own Klint Finley wrote about how iPads are being used in the enterprise. Without a doubt, Apple's wildly popular tablet device is finding its own niches to fill within businesses both...
Keeping up with every RSS feed item and tweet is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone trying to run a business. That's why at the end of every week, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses.On Tuesday, Fortune magazine writer...
Our top story of the week was that the iPad, that perennial newsmaker, is getting its first major software update. In our coverage of other top Internet trends, the battle for location enlisted some real armies; Richard MacManus wrote about how software is more important than sensors in the Internet...
Keeping up with every RSS feed item and tweet is hard enough for anybody, let alone someone trying to run a business. That's why at the end of every week, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small and medium-sized businesses.There were a few new...
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