Archive for September, 2007
Monday, September 24th, 2007
According to this news article, Microsoft is negotiating with Facebook, one of the largest and fastest growing online social networking websites, to purchase a monority share in the tune of $300-500 million.
Citing people familiar with the matter, the Journal said the world's largest software company sought to buy a stake ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Google announced that they will start serving advertising within widgets, small applications that are often found embedded in web pages. There are over 14,000 widgets available just for the company's iGoogle personalized homepage service. No wonder Google is trying to monetize it. The company promises to only display targeted ads ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Earlier today, Yahoo! announced the acquisition of client/server open source software development company Zimbra for $350 million in cache. Zimbra offers a number of cross-platform products including an email application, calendar, and online document authoring. It appears that Yahoo! is after the online office application market that is currently vigorously ...
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