With the $10 million-a-year revenue of Pluck.com, many companies have been trying to purchase the operation. The revenue generation of Pluck is generating demand for its purchase. In this regard, Demand Media succeeded in acquiring Pluck after more than two months of talking and negotiating. Pluck was purchased for more than $50 million. In fact, […]

Wundrbar manages to introduce a lot of innovations in the standard search bar of Google. Not only that, these innovations also impact the way that we do set our homepages. With the wundrbar search bar, it will prefix your keyword search with different commands depending on the kinds of results that you expect. You can […]

In its effort to further boost its operations and improve the reception of users to Facebook, the company hired Sheryl Sandberg as COO. Sandberg used to be the Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations of Google. She will be out of Google by mid-March and will start at Facebook by March 24.
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Microsoft Office Live Workspace is now in beta phase. If you access http://workspace.officelive.com, you will be able to edit Office documents and share them with the members of your team or with your friends. There is even a feature that allows you to synchronize the edited versions of the file being shared. This platform is […]

The California based search engine giant, Google is moving its European operations from the UK to Zurich. Google’s move to Switzerland makes for the third company to do so. EA and Cisco Systems have also relocated their European operations to the country as well. Some media sources claim that the move is partly due to […]

Granny and Grandpa told us to save money so that we can get some money when we need it so badly. Keeping a savings account isn’t a bad idea. After all, you might want to buy a better laptop or any gizmo or perhaps you’re getting married soon and you need to start saving.
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Around a thousand Yahoo US employees were removed from the roll of the company. Yahoo  downsized its operations in the United States. Yahoo plans on transfering many its operations to India. Offshoring is at it again. India teems with a horde of software developers and programmers and Yahoo appears to be poised to take advantage […]

Pirates Beware!  Crossing the “legal” guys in Japan just became tougher. In March, a number of artists, software developers, and moviemakers registered their complaints to the ISPs in Japan for them to track down internet pirates and limit their operations severely. Take note that it is not the government imposing this rule. Rather, the four […]

The French government is preparing to give EUR 99 M or roughly USD 152 M to twenty-three private European firms. Among these firms, the leader is Thomson. The reason for the money? They will develop a competitor of Google that is distinctly European. This project has been nicknamed the Quaero project and the European Commission […]