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Facebook Acquires Hot Potato for $10M in Cash

For $10 million in cash, Facebook has acquired more talents to expand their company and cover all bases.  With the social network company's acquisition of Hot Potato, Facebook sends a clear message that it wants to further develop its "Places" feature that is currently available on the site.  Hot Potato, a relatively very young site that was only introduced to the public in November of last year, was a part of the Realtime Crunchup event of TechCrunch.  After its launch, Hot PoRead More...

Mozilla Popcorn Poised to Change the Way Web Videos Are Seen

Videos viewed on the web may have always proven to be a bit of a disappointment for some people, as they are usually smaller compared to those played on a TV screen.  Moreover, they are bound to be only experienced passively in a browser, unlike with watching video clips on TV or movie house screen.  In that respect, Internet company Mozilla plans to do something with this.  One of its divisions is working on the Drumbeat project, a group that starts on initiating open technoloRead More...

Nature of Microsoft 15 Speculated

Reports of the Microsoft 15's appearance have been leaked and posted on various Internet news sites.   But apart from screen caps and other information that has been divulged, news about the pre-alpha build has it that a new application will be integrated into the next generation of the Microsoft Office suite.  Could it be the Microsoft Office 15?

A peek at Microsoft Office 15

Office 2010, or what used to be known as Office 14, had only been shipped last JRead More...

Federal and Civil Cases Face Ex Apple Manager

A key manager of Apple, Inc. has been charged and arrested in California, in relation to allegations that he had been getting kickbacks for leaking insider secrets to companies in Asia that are supposed to be suppliers of Apple’s banner phone, the iPhone and its accessories.

Since 2005, Paul Shin Devine has been working for the technology giant Apple, as a global supply manager.  Federal authorities are now making him face accusations of receiving kickbacks from at leastRead More...

Oracle Sues Google for Patent and Copyright Infringement

Following the uphill climb of Google's Android over the iPhone, Google found itself in the middle of yet another controversial move by Oracle Corp.  Oracle is claiming that the development of Android, Google's most popular mobile operating system, was a case for patent and copyright infringement.  The law suit was filed in a federal court in California. Karen Tillman, the spokeswoman of Oracle, said that the suit was filed on the basis of intellectual property rights violation. Read More...

Google Acquires Jambool

Technology giant Google has acquired another company in its stable by purchasing San Francisco-based Jambool Inc. Jambool's business lies on manufacturing software that gives providers of online games the facility to administer virtual currency that is being spent in their sites.

Reports from the media claim that the Social Gold platform of Jambool is in direct competition with Facebook Credits, which is the virtual currency application of the networking site.  Google's acquisRead More...

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