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Upstart Start Up Dropbox raises $250 Million in second round financing. Venture capitalists are willing to bet a quarter-billion dollars that the four-year-old upstart can take on tech heavyweights like Amazon, Apple and Google in online digital file storage world knows at The Cloud. Founded in 2007 by two MIT grad students, Arash Ferdowsi and [...]
We have learned that Google is planning to re-brand (change the name) of its popular Picasa photo management service to Google Photos, and its Blogger blog platform to Google Blogs. This is not a big surprise, as Google is not the best at coming up with cool names for it’s services anyway. Google acquired Picasa [...]
Alibaba Buys Yahoo… well wouldn’t this be interesting. I’m sure Jack Ma would love to get his mitts on Yahoo, a bell-weather US company. Sure profits are down a bit and Yahoo is essentially on the way down. I wouldn’t count them out. They still have tons of subscribers, traffic, and revenue, which is what [...]
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled their new tablet computer, the Kindle Fire, yesterday at a presentation in New York. An impressive showing for the newest Kindle product that is a serious rival to the Apple iPad. With great features, and a low price point, one of the most impressive things about this new [...]
In a rare public speaking appearance, Google CEO Larry Page addressed the search engine king’s business partners at the annual Zeitgeist conference in Paradise Valley, Arizona, along with Chairman Eric Schmidt. Page, obviously not the most comfortable public speaker, shared his enthusiasm for Google’s plans for the future in the key araes of: Search Social [...]
Is this for real, Mark Zuckerberg on Google+ I suppose it pays to keep tabs on the competition. I wonder if Larry and Sergey are on Facebook? It’s been reported that then new social network has grown30 percent between September 20 and 22. Since Google has invited everyone to join. With a big blue arrow [...]
Accounting Irregularities, or Creative Accounting may be the way to best describe what Groupon had originally highlighted in regulatory filings something it calls “adjusted consolidated segment operating income,” or adjusted CSOI. This Creative Accounting strategy may have been used to intentionally draw Investors and analysts attention away from the fact that the company is hemorrhaging [...]
iNetGlobal, Internet Service company, and a powerful force in Online Advertising comes roaring back. What’s the old expression, ” In like a Lion out like a Lamb?” Well iNetGlobal has come Roaring back in like a Lion. After a brief “Hiatus” iNetGlobal is back. Their new Acesse Search Engine is now consistently ranking in the [...]
An investment group led by Yunfeng Capital, Silver Lake and Digital Sky Technologies Global, and Singaporean investment fund Temasek Holdings has agreed to invest $1.6 billion in China-based Alibaba Group Holding, China’s largest e-commerce group. Yunfeng Capital, includes Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma as one of its founders. Hangzhou-based Alibaba operates China’s largest e-commerce website. The investment [...]
The Stingray Mobile Tracking device by Florida-based defense contractor Harris Corp is causing a lot of controversy, raising questions about whether this type of device violates Constitutional rights. Recently in the news, a Stingray was used to track a wanted fugitive, known as “The Hacker“to his home. The Scary thing is that this devise is [...]
