Fifteen billion smackers: That’s the value Microsoft recently slapped on Facebook when the computer giant invested $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Mark Zuckerberg’s online social-networking site.
You could seethe with envy–or you could chase your own fortune on the Web.
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February 20, 2008 (IDG News Service) Sybase Inc. Tuesday launched its strike in the cluster-database market, releasing Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition to compete with the likes of Oracle Corp.’s Real Application Clusters.
Sybase’s offering is aimed at IT shops that require high availability from their data centers. It uses shared-disk [...]
February 21, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today made public more than 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows protocols and APIs — information previously available only under special licenses — one of several changes in how it deals with open-source developers and software rivals.
Calling the four steps “interoperability principles,” Microsoft [...]
Alibaba founder Jack Ma didn’t need to rub a magic lamp in order to chime in over talks of a potential Micro-hoo marriage. After all, Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) owns 39% of Ma’s Chinese eBay, so if Yahoo! gets a new owner, so does its high-performing Sino-subsidiary.
Hangzhou-based Alibaba announced Monday it [...]
February 14, 2008 (Computerworld) At first blush, Starbucks’ decision to drop T-Mobile and use AT&T to provide in-store Wi-Fi access may look like just another inside business choice. A closer look, however, shows that this deal could change the way many of us are mobile.
As a practical matter, the transition [...]
Every once and again is good to refresh your memory with some good old definitions. I stumbled once again with the need to explain which are the softwares, programming languages and companies that take most of the actual share of the market in terms of “Internet development”. As gathering that kind of list with companies, [...]
Ok, lets face it, there are plenty of websites and online tutorials, manuals and countless softwares about proper SEM (Search engine marketing) and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) commonly known also as organic and inorganic strategy for search engine submission of your website.
What you are about to read is not to be taken as a rigid [...]
The Midas 100 List ranks the best global dealmakers in tech and life sciences based on the value of the companies they have taken public or sold in the past five years. We also consider the amount of capital and involvement it took to get there. Last year was a great exit year–$34 billion in [...]
February 12, 2008 (IDG News Service) Continuing its push into the mobile consumer market, Microsoft Corp. said it plans to acquire Danger Inc., the developer of software and services that run Sidekick.
Danger’s operating system and applications work in tandem with back-end servers to offer services such as games, social networking, [...]
NEW YORK - Let me just come right out and say it. Answers.com is the most useful, smartest, coolest, easiest-to-use Web innovation to come around in years.
Answers.com is a new approach to Internet search, but make no mistake: It is not search. With one click Answers.com delivers instant information, not Web links, laid out [...]
