Blog Site Back Up After Hack Attack
News Pyra sparked up its popular Blogger.com site again Friday after shutting it down earlier in the day in response to a hacker attack. Pyra has taken the machine that was compromised offline and restored the Blogger site from its redundant servers...
[October 28, 2002, 9:11]
Google Triggers Privacy Concerns
News On one level, the Pyra buy brings Google a step closer to the portal model, giving it a Web publishing tool akin to Yahoo's Geocities, which hosts, and helps subscribers create, personal Web sites. In its latest efforts, the Mountain View...
[March 3, 2003, 12:22]
Google Snaps Up Photo Firm
News Google got into the blogging business last year, when it acquired Pyra Labs, creator of the Blogger service. Google on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Picasa, a digital photo management company based in Pasadena, California.
[July 14, 2004, 11:50]
Google Blogger Out
News The employee blog issue is doubly sensitive for Google, which became a prominent booster of blogging through its acquisition of web logging pioneer Pyra Labs in February 2003. Mark Jen, a blogger whose candid comments about life on the job at...
[February 9, 2005, 7:55]
Blogger Releases User-friendly Update
News The makeover for Blogger — whose parent company Pyra Labs was purchased by Google in 2003 — comes at a time when blog software options are not only expanding, but also changing to accommodate Web users who want to blog but don't have a full suite...
[August 16, 2006, 17:00]
Google Blogger 'was Fired'
News The employee blog issue is doubly sensitive for Google, which became a prominent booster of blogging through its acquisition of Web logging pioneer Pyra Labs in February 2003. Mark Jen was fired for blogging, the ex-Googler confirmed in a Web...
[February 14, 2005, 9:05]
Trellix Adds Blogging To Its Web Tools
News It licensed the blogging technology from Pyra Labs in 2001. Software maker Trellix is adding a Web logging capability to its site-building tools. Trellix, which sells software designed to simplify Web site development, is expected to announce...
[August 8, 2002, 14:16]
Bloggers Threaten Revolt After Google Swaps Standards
News The company eliminated paid Blogger subscriptions on acquiring the service from Pyra Labs. Google's Blogger service is bypassing Really Simple Syndication in favour of an alternative technology, in a move that has sparked more discord in a bitter...
[February 12, 2004, 8:15]
No Date For IPO Yet - Google
News He defended Google's purchases -- of Applied Semantics, Outride and Pyra Labs -- as relatively successful because of the small size of each company. Despite frenzied speculation of an imminent Google public offering, company co-founder Sergey Brin...
[August 21, 2003, 10:25]
Blogging Comes To Mobile Phones
News The company credited with popularising blogging, Pyra Labs, was acquired by Google on Sunday. Mobile phone users may soon be able to update their Web logs with nothing but a mobile phone, with the launch of new services from mobile phone operators...
[February 18, 2003, 16:14]
