Today at the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters conference (NAB2007), Microsoft and Adobe have gone tit for tat with product launches that directly target one another. Our previous post covered Adobe’s launch of a new Internet video solution, that competes with Microsoft’s Windows Media Player. And Microsoft has fired right back, unveiling Microsoft Silverlight – … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that due to recent travel and the start of the Web 2.0 Expo, this week’s Wrapup is later and shorter than usual. Top Web News The big news this week came right at the very end of the week – just after … Read more

In a move predicted by R/WW’s Sean Ammirati and The New York Times a week or so ago, one of the big Internet companies has acquired online advertising system DoubleClick. And the buyer is none other than Web 2.0’s big spender, Google! According to the press release just out: “The acquisition will combine DoubleClick’s expertise … Read more

Properazzi is a property search engine, based in Barcelona, Spain. The service only launched in March 2007, but already it claims to have the largest database of property listings in Europe – 1.8 million property listings in 45 countries, in multiple languages and currencies. The company is funded by Mangrove Capital Partners. Today Properazzi announced … Read more

In a timely follow-up to Alex Iskold’s thought-provoking piece on Google being The Ultimate Money Making Machine, Hitwise has released stats today that reinforce Google’s dominance in the search engine market – at least in the USA, the leading market still. Hitwise says that Google accounted for 64 percent of all US searches in the … Read more

Last week we ran a contest giving away 3 tickets to the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco next week, worth $1,500 each. To enter, all you had to do was define Web 3.0. We got a lot of awesome definitions and it was extremely tough to pick out 3 winners. About 15 entries … Read more

Martha Stewart’s company today officially unveiled the latest version of its marthastewart.com website. They are positioning it as “the most authoritative lifestyle destination on the Internet” and it’s aiming for a market of an estimated 102 million women online. I was immediately curious to look at the new site, because back in July 2005 I … Read more

Techcrunch is reporting that China-based web browser Maxthon has sold a minority stake to Google, rumored to be around $1 million. More importantly Techcrunch is “also hearing that this investment is part of a ‘much larger strategic deal’? between the two companies.” Maxthon is a powerful tabbed, fully customizable and 100% free Internet browser built … Read more

Today Salesforce.com announced a new product called Salesforce ContentExchange, a content management product for unstructured data such as email and html. They also publicly announced the acquisition of Koral, a web 2.0 content collaboration platform that was at DEMO07 earlier this year (see Zoli Erdos’ review). Koral is a key enabling technology for Salesforce ContentExchange. … Read more

Today Central Desktop launched the Spring 2007 Release of its collaboration platform. Of most interest in this release is that Central Desktop is introducing “a turnkey Intranet” for its enterprise subscribers. Key features of the turnkey intranet include easy setup (without coding or “wikifying” it), a company directory and calendar, password protection for documents, Office … Read more

Here is a summary of the week’s Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Note that you can subscribe to the weekly wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email: Top Web News The week started off with a flurry of April Fools jokes, blog style. Techcrunch got in a day early and fooled a … Read more

A quick thanks to our readers and sponsors, for supporting Read/WriteWeb’s mission to deliver in-depth news and analysis on Web Technology. Also of course thanks to our excellent writers! Our sponsors are: Wild Apricot offers web 2.0 products for non-profits – one of their largest user segments is professional associations. Probably the most popular area … Read more

In another excellent example of small Web Office vendors teaming up, Web Office suite provider ThinkFree has just launched a WordPress Viewer Plugin enabling WordPress bloggers to embed MS Office docs, spreadsheets, and presentations into their websites. This allows readers of those blogs to view office docs inside the browser – i.e. they don’t need … Read more

This week Optaros released a free survey report entitled ‘How Will Enterprises Deliver Next Generation Internet Applications?’. Over 400 senior decision makers responded to the survey, which looked at how enterprises will deliver the next-generation of Internet applications. A little background on Optaros: it describes itself as “an assembler of Next Generation Internet applications (NGI) … Read more

Ozon.ru, which claims to be Russia’s largest e-commerce store for books, audio and video, software, multimedia games, electronic and digital goods, received $18 million in funding this week from Index Ventures, Holtzbrinck Ventures (the venture arm of one of Germany’s largest publishing companies) and Cisco. The money will help develop Ozon.ru’s logistics system, expand its … Read more