August 11, 2009 | mauthor | Business, all | No Comments
Today, Facebook bought Friendfeed for $50 million. The reason behind facebook buying friendfeed is, facebook wants to confound google, as google cannot index facebook pages properly. They want to make facebook the largest web space. Frienfeed has 12 members in their team, in that 3 are ex goog
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August 10, 2009 | mauthor | Business, all | No Comments
General Motors after its bankruptcy, planned to sell car through ebay.com, GM aims to introduce a new platform for the buyers. On Aug 10 Tuesday, GM will launch a pilot program with EBay to sell the cars. Through this program buyers can place a bid for GM cars from GM dealers. And it has lot
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August 7, 2009 | mauthor | Business, all | No Comments
Apple might release a mini computer in the early 2010, which looks like a Ipod touch but slightly bigger than IPod touch. The Apple mini computer or tablet will be priced between $500 to $700. This is in competition to the other Netbooks or mini laptops manufactured by Dell, Acer, Toshiba and
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Of the top nineteen (19) banks in the nation, sixteen (16) are already technically insolvent. (Based upon the “alternative more adverse” scenario which had a 3.3 percent contraction of the U.S. Economy in 2009, accompanied by 8.9 percent unemployment, followed by 0.5 percent growth of the U.S. E
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Mexico will get $205 million from the World Bank, including $25 million immediately, to combat the growing swine flu epidemic that is already believed to have claimed more than 80 lives. Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said the $25 million would be used "to take care of more immediate n
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Microsoft Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a virtual machine, the company confirmed Friday -- the first time Microsoft has relied on virtualization to provide backward compatibility.The add-on creates an XP virtual environment runni
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Asian markets move mostly higher, with Mizuho Financial and other financials leading gains after U.S. stocks advanced Friday. Asian shares were higher Monday after a rise on Wall Street, with bank stocks leading in Tokyo on merger and acquisition hopes, but the outbreak of a deadly new strain of
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