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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Does this "Independence day" - July 04 2009 , marks the beginning of an end ? Yes , India , 4 th largest GDP & populous democracy in the world is the latest country to join force with Russia & China questioning the dollar as reserve currency. BRIC - famously coined acronym in 2001 to denote
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Bing reported their Bing travel servers went down because of fire in their data center (Seattle) which caused downtime for the bing travel service. Still they are working on fixing the problem, they expect the service to come up by today evening.
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Today (July 02 2009) computer glitch at NYSE Euronext lead to extension of trading session by 15 minutes to 4:15 PM , NASDAQ ended the trading session on time as it is independently operated by NASDAQ OMX.NYSE Euronext headquartered in New York city operates multiple exchanges notably NYSE - New Yor
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United Airlines computer systems went down today at the O'Hare Interanational airport, Chicago. This caused delays in flights and some flights were grounded and some were cancelled. The United Airlines asked their customers to monitor / check their flight before they arrive to O'Hare airport.
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Recently a group of individuals in US and Europe have planned a Swine Flu party event with the notion of deliberately getting acquainted with H1N1 flu virus , there by developing immunity against it before the peak flu season hits. In the midst of current outbreak CDC have strongly cautioned peo
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Logmein , leading provider of on demand , remote connectivity solutions for SMB business segment today announced IPO listing price of $16.00/share on 6,666,667 shares. Shares are listed on NASDAQ market and trades under ticker LOGM. Shares opened up with whopping gain of 25 % and stayed above 20
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