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Google biggest revenue fetcher, its ads which were displayed on the right hand edge has now been replaced to the left hand side. May be the move has been made to provide better visibility to the ads and therefore, get more clicks. The plan seems to be working as it has definitely made the ads more visible.

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Facbook has recently posted a proposal on its blog according to which it proposes to ban the sponsored status updates. It is proposing an update to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities which is one of the site’s documents that establishes user rights and Facebook’s Terms of Service. The post...

Recently facebook created a big buzz in the social media market by buying Friendfeed. This leads the Media experts to suggest Google doing a similar thing with Twitter for several reasons.

The two major benefits that Google will have by buying Twitter are that, firstly, it would accelerate Google’s...

On August 10th 2009, VMWare proclaimed its acquisition of a web application and development management services called SpringSource. The deal closed at a $420 million valuation, with $362 million in cash and equity plus an assumption of approximately $58 million in unvested stocks and options.

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Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now.

FriendFeed is based in Mountain View, Calif. and has 12 employees. FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being as the teams determine the longer term plans for the product.

Financial terms of the...

Recently, a blind search tool was created by Michael Kordahi, a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. It is a unique tool that provides you with the search results for your keywords from all the three leading search engines namely, Google, Yahoo!, and Bing all at the same time but without displaying the...

Google will probably raise three fold within three years as predicted by Scott Kurnit, the founder of About.com and one of the leading tech investor. Scott Kurnit has invested in lot many companies and therefore, he says this on the basis of three new Google features:

1. Google Voice
2. Google Wave
3. Google...

Recession is all over so how is it possible that for the online ads to stay aloof! The online ad recession started out in the first quarter of 2009 itself and continues in the second quarter too. Take a quick look on the update by IDC research firm on the once-unshakable online advertising business....

The latest buzz in today’s IT world is that of the legal agreement signed by Google with On2. According to The definitive agreement Google acquires a developer of video compression technology of On2 for $106.5 million. On2 video compression technologies possess great efficiency as it delivers high quality...