Sometimes you just have to know when to call it quits, and a new report indicates that Bebo has decided now's the time to cut its losses in Australia.  Bebo is supposed to end its operations in the country before the end of the year. Paul McIntyre, who was the first to report this potential move, noted ...

NBC said today "The National Dog Presented by Purina" will be available online Thanksgiving Day (Noon - 2 p.m. in all time zones) at NBCSports.com. The television broadcast will also be available online after 2 p.m. ET on Hulu. To complement the TV special and showcase all the breeds, NBCSports.com ...

Amazon.com has announced that Susan Boyle's upcoming album, "I Dreamed a Dream," has become its largest global pre-order in the history of the online retail giant. The album will be released by Sony Music Entertainment on November 23. Boyle became a reality show and Internet sensation after her April ...

Google's Matt Cutts discussed how the search engine handles sites that that are "in the cloud" with regards to how listings are affected. Matt's explanation was a response to the following user-submitted question: Can moving my website to "the cloud" harm my listings? Say my server's in Germany and ...

Sony has plans to launch a new online service next year that will allow users to download music and movies to their televisions. "I'd like it to get off the ground as quickly as possible," said Kazuo Hirai, executive vice president of Sony and head of its Networked Products & Service Group, in an ...

It looks like the eBay-Skype spectacle has finally come to a close.  Despite all of the arguments (legal and otherwise) that cropped up at one point or another, representatives of both companies announced last night that the sale of Skype to an investor group is complete. Josh Silverman Josh Silverman, ...

Back in the summer, Twitter announced that it was working on an API to give developers the ability to geotag tweets. The company has now made that available. There is no geotagging on Twitter.com yet, but Twitter apps will now be able to support it. So potentially, you will be able to geotag tweets ...

Most companies try to improve themselves over time.  Twitter, unfortunately, hasn't managed to do so.  A downtime report from CheckMySite indicates that Twitter's still suffering problems on a regular basis, and that it hasn't done well at all in comparison to Facebook and MySpace. Here's the golden ...

The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on 136 websites it says were selling illegal or misbranded drugs to U.S. consumers. The FDA says none of the websites are for pharmacies in the United States or Canada. The agency has sent 22 warning letters to the operators of these websites and notified ...

Google has announced a new Google News for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. The company already offers one for other devices like Blackberry, Windows Mobile, and S60, although they say more improvements to those versions will be coming soon, as well. Today's new version includes a new Google News ...