Microsoft Speaks On Facebook Deal
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer defended his company’s purchase of a 1.6 percent stake in social network Facebook for $240 million. "We didn’t make a mistake," Ballmer told reporters at a business conference in Mumbai. "The valuation of Facebook is still to be determined. Certainly today, it’s very, very popular. So for a company like [...]
Reuters Photos Gummed Up Google News
Algorithmic accidents at Google News have been blamed for matching the wrong photos to stories, including a really unfortunate one caught by Newsweek.Putting the right pictures with the right stories has proved a challenge to Google News. That challenge received dramatic illustration when Newsweek grabbed a screenshot of a story about the possible departure of [...]
Google, U.N. Partner On Poverty
Google and Cisco have partnered with the United Nations to launch a new Web site that will detail how and where Millennium Development Goals on ending poverty are being met. U.N. officials and other experts have said that meeting goals set in 2000 by the target date of 2015 is becoming more challenging. The creators [...]
Google Takes Aim At China’s Mobile Market
We’ve discussed cultural differences, censorship, and the lack of a home field advantage – these have all posed challenges to Google in China. It’s now becoming clear that Google will also need to overcome its unfamiliarity with the mobile market to succeed in this country. Internet access is often easier and cheaper to get through [...]
High Resolution “Last Supper” Image To Go On Net
A high-resolution image of Da Vinci’s "Last Supper" will be posted on the Internet Saturday October 27 by an Italian technology company providing fodder for art enthusiasts and conspiracists. The digital company, called HAL9000 after the menacing computer in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey" will post the "Last Supper" on it’s site and [...]
Google News Now Featuring YouTube Videos
Two months ago, we reported that some people had seen video clips appear on Google News. Not us, mind you – a sort of regional test may have been taking place – but some people. Now we’ve seen one for ourselves, and the clip came straight from YouTube. Greg Jarboe seems to have been the [...]
Ballmer Rules Out Yahoo, Facebook Buys
It’s time to put the Yahoo or Facebook acquisition deals from Microsoft to rest, as Steve Ballmer disclosed a less broad scope for what the company buys.Microsoft could be emulating Yahoo and Google in their strategy of buying small startups and companies, instead of writing 11-digit checks to Mark Zuckerberg or Jerry Yang. For the [...]
Google Trends Reveals What Unites Manchester
In celebration of Reuters’ discovery of Google Trends, we thought we’d revisit for an update. Like last year (when Google Trends was launched) Birmingham, England still has the world’s largest concentration of porn searches. Nearby Manchester gives them a run for their money…is this somehow soccer related? Overall, though, Australia beats them out. Unless it’s [...]
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