Local is the new frontier. Local ads, deals, and services represent a massive business opportunity for the Internet giants and media companies.But local ads need local content and that local content can't be machine aggregated, it requires feet on the streets: selling ads and collecting the news.And 'Local' is a ...

Whether you are a fan or not, after months of media coverage ranging from the derisive to the slavishly complimentary, you cannot have missed what April 29th means. It is finally here, the big day has dawned, it's Royal Wedding day. The nuptials of course will be most celebrated in ...

Gigya published an excellent white paper a year ago on the intersection of Social and Search. It is still worth reading, which is unusual in this fast-changing tech space. Some of the most interesting insights:A majority of the referral traffic for some sites like USA Today and ESPN come ...

Kara Swisher, editor of "All Things Digital," reported that TechCrunch Editor Mike Arrington disclosed his investments in startups following her questions about the matter, put to AOL senior management.Swisher writes:On Tuesday night around 10 pm (just when I start getting revved up), I wrote a testy email to Arrington's bosses ...

People have always asked me questions about the work I’ve done on email technology, but the most commonly asked questions have changed radically over the last thirty years. ”What’s email?” used to be the most common by far, but I haven’t heard it in a remarkably long time. For ...

Millions of people around the world are waiting in anticipation for the big royal event in London on Friday 29 April, 2011. For those who can not be present live at the ceremony, Google provides five interesting tools that will allow fans to watch the wedding and get more information ...

Mike Arrington, editor and founder of TechCrunch, an AOL company, today disclosed his investments in some high profile startups.He said he had refrained from making investments in startups since 2009 because of distracting accusations of conflicts of interest but that he had recently changed that policy (following the sale of ...

I have little doubt that when Christine Rubino, a seasoned junior-school teacher in Brooklyn, New York City, made public her acute frustrations with her fifth-grade class, she had no conception just how far reaching a single Facebook update could be.The Brooklyn community had only recently faced the death of ...

Jon Gosier is one of the most impressive figures from the African technology scene to make it internationally. He is a TedX senior fellow, and works as the Director of Product for SwiftRiver at Ushahidi, which is a "platform for making sense of streams of realtime data." Gosier is also ...

There has been plenty of buzz about the iPhone and its operating system, iOS 4, and how it has been secretly tracking the locations of its users. After more than a week of silence, Apple finally responded. The first response was allegedly from CEO Steve Jobs—who is still on medical ...