Posted by Phoebe Chin on 02/4/08 in Internet Companies
In an effort to topple Google’s search engine market share, Microsoft approached Yahoo for a takeover at the latest reported figure of $44.6 billion.
As estimation made for the next three years ahead indicated a healthy growth of online ads investment, it is a ‘must’ move for Microsoft to win this battle against Google. And this […]
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 01/23/08 in Internet Companies, Software
It’s a bug attack!
Skype was forced to switch off its popular video-sharing feature in its software as a security effort to protect Skype users from a self-launch worm attack.
The bug in the software was first reported last Thursday by security researcher ,Aviv Raff and believed to be originated from Skype’s way of using Internet Explorer […]
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 01/18/08 in Internet Companies
Google announced yesterday to donate 1 percent of the company’s annual profit to do-gooder organizations. Google will be donating $25 million to curb global problems like global warming, new diseases that might affect the world and also reaching out to the world’s poorest countries.
Google reported having a market value of $192 billion.
The generous donation from […]
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 01/17/08 in Internet Companies
Facebook was asked by the Scrabble makers, Hasbro and Mattel to remove its famous game, Scrabulous from its site. Hasbro and Mattel acted on this because Facebook has infringed the copyright of the board game.
Scrabulous is currently the most popular application on Facebook with an approximate 500,000 active players every single day. Scrabulous was actually […]
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 01/15/08 in Featured, Internet Companies
MySpace agreed on Monday to take extra steps in preventing more online sexual crimes from commencing including searching for a better age-verification system. MySpace will implement its promise to form a group of industry professionals to improve the safety of users especially of those under age along with other social-networking sites.
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 01/11/08 in Internet Companies
Amazon.com Inc confirmed that Sony BMG has finally joined the rest of the music industry giants, Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI, to offer consumers songs without copy-protection technology, or digital rights management.
With this latest deal with Sony BMG, Amazon is now the first retailer to offer customers DRM-free songs from all […]
Posted by Ben Teo on 10/30/07 in Featured, Internet Companies
The famous Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook.com is now estimated to be worth between $3 billion and $5 billion but what does he do now that he has his $15 billion valuation of FaceBook?
Whats more amazing about that $15 billion figure is that FaceBook does not have a proper revenue model or direction to where […]
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