We've written about social lending several times before including our 3-part series looking at Zopa, Prosper and LendingClub. Jim Bruene at NetBanker has put together a good…

After Bell Canada started throttling P2P traffic during evening hourse, even for its resellers, several protest groups have launched and the issue has escalated to the floor of the…

British book publishing giant Penguin is carrying out an experiment that takes six books from six different authors and distributes them through new media channels over six weeks. …

Federated Media (FM) has rumored to have raised $50 million from Oak Hill Capital Partners on a $200 million valuation, according to VentureBeat. Total funding for Federated Media…

Eric Eldon at Venture Beat is reporting on a rumor that ad network Federated Media has raised $50 million in venture capital on a $200 million valuation. Eric told me the source…

A federal judge quashed an RIAA subpoena seeking the identities of students at Boston University accused of copyright infringement. In her decision, she also said that, contrary to…

Twitter Local is a really neat Twitter tool that takes a location, postal code or a state, together with a mile radius, and spits out an RSS or XML feed with tweets from that area.…

This post isn't about all the mudslinging between Techcrunch/Mahalo and DEMO. It's not about who wants to kill who, who wants cement boots for the other. It's not about which…

You've heard a lot about OpenID, the decentralized framework for authenticating users across the web. OpenID is convenient for end users, allowing them to login to numerous web…

Cooper Union adjunct Sanford Dickert, Tony Bagicalupo, and the former "CooperBricolage" team are back at it: This week they announced plans to open up New Work City, a "coworking"…

Good news for "Friday Night Lights" fans: NBC didn't cancel it! Bad news: Fans of the show without DirecTV have to wait until February to see the season when it airs on NBC. Wait--…

Sampa, a Seattle-based service for families to create websites, has raised a $1 million angel round from investor Geoff Entress and unidentified former execs of Microsoft (NSDQ:…

Now that TechCrunch and Jason Calacanis have scheduled their TechCrunch50 start-up celebration conference at the same time as IDG's DEMO start-up celebration conference, the…

Get ready to hear more about the FCC wireless spectrum auction and telecom M&A. Companies that participated in this year's auction, which wrapped up last month -- like Google…

Website creation company Brightegg is announcing the launch of a private label content management service (CMS) today. Fees for the white label service vary based on number of…