Google’s shares closed with a 20 percent gain Friday, marking the largest-ever one-day gain for the Internet giant.
The folks at ComScore explained the discrepencies in a blog posting, noting they only count U.S. paid search clicks, while Google’s figures include not only international figures but also “affiliate site ads.”
Driving that October jump was Google’s [...]
When Google announced it was developing the open-source, Linux-based Android platform last year, the company also announced the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of handset makers, carriers and chip designers that will work to implement Android.
This is good news for Google, which benefits greatly from having as many carriers and handset makers as possible using [...]
Similar programs for bicycles have existed for years, and there is definitely a rate of return, although it obviously depends on what you lost and who has found it. SendMeHome’s entire system relies around the stickers, which you can either print out with your own materials or custom order from the service for a small [...]
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The company’s real value add is in acquiring the data on the products. The packaging of the data into a site is the easy part, but we think they’ve done a great job at it.
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That’s it, simple story. Looks like a great product and service.
iPhone app [...]
When McCue asked whether Tellme would have to move its software from Sun Microsystems’ Solaris version of Unix to Windows, Ballmer replied, “No, no, we’ve learned our lesson,” McCue recounted to the Times. That could be a reference to the long and arduous transition of Hotmail from FreeBSD Unix to Windows after Microsoft acquired the [...]
AOL has closed its acquisition of Bebo, which it plans to fold into a new People Networks business unit.
The new unit will combine several social-media technologies at AOL. People Networks will also include widget technology company Goowy Media and social-search question-and-answer service Yedda.
AOL in March announced the $850 million acquisition of Bebo, designed to [...]
Oracle recently launched Beehive, an “open-standards based platform which aims to integrate team workspaces, calendar, instant messaging, and e-mail. All these utilities come with tightly tracked date stamped logging.”
On Monday, IBM launched the beta of its “Bluehouse” product, designed to be a Cisco WebEx killer. IBM already has e-mail, instant messaging, content management (internally developed [...]
