Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has an image police - but an arrest they have made may be mistaken. A blogger using its SkyDrive cloud storage service says it froze his account when it confused a famous work of art with pornography.

Second on Huffington Post’s international expansion list, after its recent Canadian launch, will be a new UK site, now scheduled for launch on July 6.

Less than a year after its last round, GigaOm is upping its investment take to $15 million. The $6 million new round, led by Reed Elsevier (NYSE: RUK) Ventures with existing investors Alloy Ventures and True Ventures taking part, will go toward a major expansion of its subscription research business…

We have an answer to the tech publishing world’s version of And Then There Were None: the core team formerly known as Engadget has surfaced as the expansion franchise for SB Nation. Jim Bankoff, CEO of the DC-based startup, has had expansion to new verticals in mind from the start.…

AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong warned that layoffs would be coming last week, and today, the pink slips were released. Armstrong spoke about the decision during a Q&A keynote session this morning at the Bloomberg Businessweek Media Summit. In a separate interview with paidContent when he left the conference,…

Some of Huffington Post‘s 9,000+ bloggers have already announced that they won’t be following Arianna to AOL (NYSE: AOL) - either unhappy about the switch from ideological startup or, as Douglas Rushkoff wrote, disinterested in writing for the big corporation for free.

AOL (NYSE: AOL) is rearranging one of the vestiges of its early content strategy and is now focused on creating virtual “towns” to hold its various blogs and webpages, MixedMedia reports. The content reorg will essentially mean the end for men’s site Asylum and the women’s site Lemondrop. Since AOL…

Zemanta, a web add-on that injects blog posts and CMS articles with links to related material, has raised its biggest venture round so far in order to bump its sales efforts and product development.

Very few people could post about TechCrunch sale possibilities (especially during a TechCrunch conference) and get me to pay attention. Om Malik is one. According to Om, writing with plenty of qualifiers, Michael Arrington and company are deep in discussions to sell TechCrunch to AOL (NYSE: AOL) . The possible…

WordPress parent Automattic has purchased Plinky, a service that tries to help writers overcome writers’ block by providing them with daily writing prompts; users are then encouraged to share their responses. (Today’s prompt: “What’s Your Favorite Summer Memory?”) In a short blog post, WordPress’ Joy Victory says Plinky users will…

With minimal additional investment and no extra hires, fan-based SB Nation is launching 20 new regional sports sites during the next few weeks. The first six went live after midnight: New York, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Arizona and DC, where the startup is based. The look is similar; all are based…

While big publishers try to figure out how to get millions of web users to pay for their content, indie bloggers continue to churn out blog posts for free, or barely monetized with search and display ads from Google’s AdSense—if they’re lucky. Now bloggers using Google’s Blogger platform have another…

Now branching out in to e-books after recently marking its first birthday, Tina Brown’s Daily Beast is starting to syndicate its webzine content out through third-party destinations. The IAC-backed current affairs zine has just inked deals to publish through MSN in the U.S. and UK, with further agreements with Yahoo…

Twentieth Century Fox is going social to promote its upcoming film, AVATAR, by partnering with TypePad owner Six Apart, to launch branded blogs and micro-blogs. AVATAR fans can get branded themes for their blogs, as well as trailers, behind-the-scenes clips, and news updates about the film, which launches in about…

Apparently, Technorati is still going. The seven-year-old blog index site once threatened to be to the web’s nascent conversational search paradigm what Twitter Search is now, but has limped along for the last couple of years - plagued by server downtime, broken links, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Blog Search’s rise and…

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You’re reading it here first… Italian social media entertainment operator Dada has bought a 10 percent stake in the owner of interactive on-demand TV channel Music Box for €750,000, as it aims to “become one of the main players in the online music market”. Giglio Group’s Music Box is the…

Why did Movable Type maker Six Apart sell blog community LiveJournal in December, just three years after buying it? At the World Association of Newspapers congress in Gothenburg, the company’s EMEA VP Olivier Creiche told me: “We already had three product lines of our own ... it’s just not sustainable…

Here’s a load of arse. Niche football social media site OleOle, based in Beverly Hills, has bought an Arsenal FC fan blog called ArseBlog for an undisclosed, but likely small, amount. The six-year-old blog, which won a Bloggie award last year for its Gunners news and features, has been integrated…