Business to business software can be a tough sell. Online B2B can be even a harder sell. While there is certainly money to be made, unless you’re one of the big players, the likelihood you’re going to succeed is pretty small. Starting today, Google is taking their roll as one of the big players and extending a platform to ..read more

This guest post is authored by Alex Rampell , the founder and CEO of TrialPay . This is a follow on to an earlier article “The End Of Brand Advertising,” where Rampell argues that the collision of online and offline advertising paradigms will have a profound impact on free content. Rampell’s most recent guest post for us was in ..read more

Sure, the PSP is still a mighty attractive piece of hardware. “Handsome,” you might say, but that heart-pounding allure is all but gone these days. While we wait a few more years for Sony to rectify that with a PSP 2, we can drool over another mod by ” f00 f00 .” This time he’s managed to squeeze a ..read more

Remember the Opus One, the Android-powered iDEN handset from Motorola we scooped and then spec’d just before Christmas? Well apparently it’s going to be made official sometime in the next few weeks (hello, CTIA!) and will feature one added but obvious goodie: MOTOBLUR. Since we know most of you don’t have encyclopedic memories, here’s a bit of a refresher ..read more

Remember that guy who made the DuckPhone iPhone app ? And how his app was rejected due to “Minimum User Functionality?” Well, Apple just approved his app after he added some news streams and a twitter feed from the stars if Jersey Shore . It just goes to show that one man’s dumb garbage app is another man’s acceptable ..read more

Let’s look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories: Coding error leads to uneven EU browser ballot distribution : The distribution of browser choices on the EU browser ballot released this month to Windows users is uneven. Internet Explorer shows up in the right-most position 50 percent of the time for current ..read more

Our top story this week was location – location-based networks, services, advertising and even “feelings”. Read on for our coverage and analysis. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010, including Real-Time Web, Mobile Web and Internet of Things. Note: We’ve refreshed the format for our longest running feature, the Weekly Wrapup. It now focuses ..read more

Posterous , a company that wants to make it super-easy for anyone to publish their own blog, has raised $4.4 million in its first round of institutional funding. The San Francisco company’s big selling point is its simplicity — just send an email with the title, text, and media that you want to post to post@posterous.com, and Posterous handles ..read more

In one of the more interesting battlefields of the multifront war between Google and Microsoft , Bing Maps today added what it calls its “largest imagery update to date, adding 6.7 million square kilometers of new imagery.” That includes the Russian Federation, Australia, Mexico and most places in the United States where there is existing black-and-white imagery, as well ..read more

Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. [ UPDATE: Google confirmed the deal in a blog post, which you can read below, as well as in interviews BoomTown did today with execs at DocVerse and Google.] Continuing its acquisition spree, Google has snapped up DocVerse , a start-up that allows users of Microsoft Office documents to collaborate ..read more

We’re not quite sure whether you need a really active or a really idle mind to come up with this, but the dudes over at Art Lebedev Studio have just unveiled their latest conceptual design. Continuing the theme of faux-Latin names , this is branded the Segmentus clock, and sports hands just like an antiquated analog clock, but unlike ..read more

Slide , the online entertainment company founded by Max Levchin (who we just interviewed in Davos), has decided to stop development on two of its social games, Slide SuperPocus and Top Fish, and will be laying off “less than 10%” of its employees in the process. The company had around 40 employees working on the two games, some of ..read more

In a Wall Street Journal article today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is portrayed as not being particularly eager to take his social networking phenom public. That’s pretty much been his well-known attitude for a long time now–which has sometimes put him at odds with others at various times–for a range of issues from the company not being ready for ..read more

Kwedit , the innovative new alternate payment product for social games and just about any other virtual good, is on a roll. They’ve raised a second round of financing – $3.3 million in a round led by Maveron . And they were also on the Cobert Report last night. Just, not so much in a good way. Colbert ridiculed ..read more