A few days ago when Google announced what is a precursor to Google Office, many saw it as a big move against the long term nemesis, Microsoft. We read things differently, and don’t really believe that it is going to have much of an impact. However,… Read More »
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Just when you thought that eBay and Google were girding for an all out rumble, the two companies decide to bury the hatchet, and play nice. Thanks mostly to Skype, the multi-billion dollar purchase that has yielded little in terms of revenue for auction giant, eBay. Skype’s… Read More »
Social bookmarking site Kaboodle is finally adding shopping comparison prices, among a bunch of upgrades for Tuesday. Price comparison will start with products in the Shopping.com API, but could be expanded to travel and healthcare, Kaboodle CEO Manish Chandra said in an interview Monday. The company will… Read More »
Yahoo today will tie together a bunch of its properties — Flickr, Yahoo Maps, Upcoming, and Yahoo Local. These are natural and powerful combinations of existing projects and acquisitions, and of course the question is what took Yahoo so long. First up, Flickr photos can now be… Read More »
A couple days ago we pointed to Mooglets widgets, the creation of Rome-based Mad4Milk.net. It was a neat product made on the cheap, so we joked, “somebody give these guys some millions!” Today we are shocked to learn that Mad4Milk has been acquired by Freewebs. The… Read More »
Dash Navigation, an auto navigation device maker, comes out of stealth Monday. The company had previously been called Circumnav Networks and had admitted it was building “a social network of traffic data” at one time, though a lot has happened since the project began three years… Read More »
Only the very brave can pick winners amongst the current crop of Web 2.0 start-ups, social networks and other sundry services. And whatever the outcome might be, it is safe to say that the popularity of open source database MySQL and programming language PHP will only… Read More »
