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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Arizona State credit union , full service not-for-profit organization serving more than 133,000 customers in the state of Arizona , have started a web portal to share useful information on how to cope up with recession and an "forum" based platform to exchange valuable tips on living through reces
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Bing, Microsoft Corporation’s revamped web search engine dubbed as "decision engine" announced on May 28 2009 is pacing ahead in growing its market share. According to the recent report released by Hitwise - An Experian company that monitors internet traffic anonymously from ISP's; Bing search
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Direxion Funds leading provider of leveraged Exchange Trade Funds (ETF's) that intend to provide performance of 300% of underlying index that they track both on the long & short side, today "reverse split" two of its popular, 3 X financial ETF - FAS & FAZ. FAS provides 3 X performance of
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Amazon today reduced price of its popular kindle 2 reader by $60 to bring it under $300 mark. Kindle, revolutionary e-book reader that seamlessly allows users to download contents from web without additional fee and is ideal for use with Textbooks and Newspapers. Second generation of Kindle device,
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New York based BlackRock , largest money manager in the world after its acquisition of Barclays Global investor , is one of the 9 investment managers chosen for Toxic asset program also known as PPIP announced on Mar 23 2009. PPIP - Public Private Invest Program was devised to liquidate bad assets l
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As we noted yesterday, Google Apps have dropped "BETA" , now today Google has announced its plan to release Google Chrome OS available for customers as early as 3Q of 2010.Google is stepping up its arsenal against Microsoft Office suite and Windows brand OS. New OS named after browser Google Chrome
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