Sun to Buy MySQL for $1 BillionSun Microsystems Inc. today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire open-source software maker MySQL AB for $1 billion, beefing up the server maker’s database offerings with a company whose technology is used by some of the world’s biggest Web sites.
With millions of global deployments including Facebook, Google, Nokia, Baidu and China Mobile, read more.. BitTorrent launches P2P streaming video serviceBitTorrent is working hard to become a good boy and, even more, the savior of the media industry applying its wide-spread technology and client for legal purposes.
Since last February, BitTorrent has been reaching agreements with major media companies like Fox, Paramount, MGM and Warner Bros. for legal delivery of their contents. Now, BitTorrent has just read more.. eBay admits mistakes in Skype’s acquisitionIn late 2005 eBay acquired Skype, the number one internet-calling company, for $2.6 billion. Today Skype’s price is half that one.
Yesterday, eBay confirmed that it overpaid for Skype showing once more that value never is equal to price. About half billion of the charge were to pay Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, Skype’s founders, and other early read more.. The GYM repeats itself!First, Google purchased DoubleClick, next it was Microsoft that bought aQuantive and now it’s Yahoo’s time to get its own online advertising company.
Yahoo has just acquired BlueLithium, the #6 ad network in the US, for $300 million, far from $3.1 billion Google paid for DoubleClick and just 5% of the amount of money Microsoft spent on aQuantive.
Is Google’s brand more valuable than Coca-Cola?Latest edition of BRANDZ ranking has been released recently. Brandz is top 100 ranking of “Most Powerful Brands” on Earth published by Millward Brown Optimor in cooperation with the Financial Times.
In this year’s edition Google has risen to the top, previously dedicated to Microsoft, with Coca-Cola in 4th position. According to Millward Brown, Google’s brand value is $66.4bn read more.. Google waked Ozzie up!Microsoft’s top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, has recently said that Google success in finding in advertising revenue “was a wake-up call within Microsoft”. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions of desktop programs or following its particular search and advertising model.
Instead of jumping belatedly into read more.. BitTorrent to sell movies “legally”BitTorrent is planning to use its widely used file-sharing software to launch a legal download site, called the BitTorrent Entertainment Network, that will distribute more than 5,000 titles including digital movies, TV shows, games and other media.
Considering that BitTorrent have got a well-deserved reputation for quickly file distribuition and an existing user based of 135 read more.. Yahoo! Pipes is putting minds to workJust a few days from being launched and Yahoo Pipes is putting lots of minds to work:
- five cool ways to use Yahoo! Pipes
- New York Times thru flickr
- del.icio.us flavored web search
- YMI Podcasting MegaFeed
- Amazon price watch
- eBay price watch
- Google Blog Search
- Cricket on YouTube
Lots else. What comes next? Only time will read more.. Yahoo! Pipes, a big step towards Web3.0?Yahoo! has just launched a new service called Yahoo Pipes which offers users the ability to easily create data mashups from remixing popular feed types, including Yahoo! Search, Google Base, Flickr photos and any RSS feed on the web. Yahoo! describes it as an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator that allows you to create feeds read more.. Windows Vista’s firewall, a false sense of securityAccording to Wikipedia, a firewall is an information technology security device whose basic task is to control traffic between computer networks with different zones of trust.
By definition, network traffic is bidirectional which means that your personal firewall should protect your private home network from both, inbound traffic and outbound traffic. Whereas the former type of read more..
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