A look at some of the interesting and popular stories around the Internet
Irish teenagers make dotcom millions
Two Irish teenage brothers, one of them still at secondary school, have become overnight millionaires after selling their fledgling software company.
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Comcast Promises Improved Internet
Comcast Corp. promised yesterday that it would not discriminate against specific Internet traffic. With more than 24 million subscribers, the company is the largest cable TV and Internet provider in the U.S. The announcement comes after criticism received by the company last year on the alleged blocking of a software program utilized for online video watching.
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PaidContent vs. TechCrunch: Two Visions of Blogging’s Future
Michael Arrington and Rafat Ali are both forceful, sharp-tongued, quick-tempered and plugged in, and both have built successful technology blogging ventures. So it’s no surprise that there is more than a little sparring between them.
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Liberty Media Can't Oust IAC's Diller From Board
Liberty Media Corp.'s billionaire Chairman John Malone can't oust IAC/InterActiveCorp Chairman Barry Diller and six directors, a judge ruled, thwarting Malone's effort to gain control of the Internet company. IAC rose as much as 9.7 percent in after-market trading.
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Latest Report of Google's Flat Click Rates a Nonstarter
In a mild aftershock to comScore's "bombshell" report last month about flat growth in paid clicks on Google's search ads, the research firm has issued the same report for February. Again, growth in paid clicks held steady, and again Google's stock took a hit from jittery investors, though not as sharp as last time around.
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Google loses second exec to Facebook
Google has lost its second high-profile employee to Facebook in less than a month.
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MySpace and Facebook Still Looking to Turn Clicks into Cash
The stats are staggering. MySpace, the social networking giant, has rocketed from 20 million people in 2005 to over 225 million today, with an annual average growth rate of 513 percent. Social networking rival, Facebook, posts similar numbers, only with a slightly better growth rate of 550 percent. LinkedIn, the business professionls' networking site grew at an average of 182 percent during the same period. A cash laiden dream? Not quite.
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YouTube's New 'Insight' Underwhelms
Google's YouTube announced a tool, called YouTube Insight, but it doesn't seem all that great. The company says it can "give a lot of context around the performance of video over time, where are your audience coming from, and how your message is connecting to your audience."
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Dutch MP's anti-Islam film gets barbs, cheers on YouTube
Snippets of an Islam-bashing film by Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders were causing a stir on YouTube, where they triggered cheers and barbs among thousands of viewers.
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