Forget static banners. Online ads are evolving into mini-applications with video, games, and dynamic content that people like enough to embed in their own Web pages and share with others. These widget ...

Startup Gigya has launched an advertising network to deliver and track widget ads on social networks, blogs and other sites. Gigya's network competes with rivals such as Google's Gadget Ads and a ...

In the latest evolution of this fast-paced but not yet lucrative world of widgets, Clearspring, a leading widget company, has launched an ad network for widgets (sample widget left). It comes at a ...

To Cartfly, a widget isn't just a widget. It's a composite advertising space and online store that can make you money when embedded into your Web site. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content Operations and ...

Max Levchin already changed electronic commerce as a co-founder of PayPal, an online payment service that is expected to process more than $40 billion in transactions this year. Now, he's tinkering ...

Widgets, the embeddable chunks of code on web pages that can feature anything from videos to RSS feeds, have proven to be a great way to reach lots of users. But how do they make money? Advertising in ...