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Bing More Popular Than Twitter, CNN and Digg
Bing is now the thirteenth most visited site on the Web. It has a long way to go before it beats Google and has yet to overtake Yahoo, but since its release Bing.com had more visitors than Digg, Twitter or CNN.
7 hrs ago | San Jose Mercury News
New venture capital firm brings a bit of sunshine to troubled industry
OK, dear readers, first things first: If you want to pitch your next-big-thing idea to Silicon Valley uber-geek Marc Andreessen, you don't have to e-mail or phone me first.
11 hrs ago | Slam Sports
Bell wants more young, tech savvy customers with updated The Source stores
Bell Canada wants to reach more young people and tech-savvy consumers with its newly acquired The Source electronics stores that will sell Virgin Mobile phones and offer services like the Internet.
With OS project, is Google over-extending itself?
Google's decision to build a PC operating system could be a master stroke or a colossal blunder, depending on whether the company has the resources that such an ambitious and long-term undertaking will require.
Ann Arbor biotech firm NanoBio secures $10 million in venture capital
NanoBio CEO James Baker has positioned the company to survive at least two years with cash on hand.
Chrome OS: What Google can do, Ubuntu does better
Following Google's announcement it's joining the OS party, Renai LeMay asks, has the search giant got what it takes to fully embrace open source? Google's revelation today that it will create its own operating system will bring just one reaction from operating system enthusiasts worldwide: "Not another Linux distribution." They'll say this because ...
Judge dismisses parts of billion-dollar Viacom - YouTube lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton , who presides over the southern district of New York, dismissedA some of the claims for damages in Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against Google .
Made Men: Why Venture Capitalists Sponsor Other VCs
The big news out this week in the venture capital market is the launch of Andreessen Horowitz , a new $300 million venture capital fund co-founded by Marc Andreeseen, a tech visionary who founded Netscape Communications, the startup that triggered the Internet tsunami.
Sprint sells Netbook for a buck
If you thought a $99 Netbook was a bargain, Sprint Nextel's plan to sell Netbooks for a buck is a real steal.
Sony has introduced a new netbook, the Vaio W , and unlike their Vaio P , they actually intend on calling it such.
Google finally rips the beta label off Gmail and other Google Apps
Google's charming refusal to take the "beta" label off web applications like Gmail and Google Docs has become something of a joke.
Internet plays key role in China's latest unrest
The brawl between Han Chinese and Uighurs in southern China was scarcely covered by state media, but accounts and photos spread quickly via the Internet and became a spark that helped ignite deadly riots thousands of miles away in the Uighur homeland.
There was a great deal of coverage yesterday about Google adding new capabilities to enable users to search for properties on Google Maps.
Continue reading "Scams promise job seekers big bucks"
Job seekers line up for a career fair, last Thursday in Oak Brook, Illinois. 12 warning signs 1. The job offers very high pay, often including pledges that the income will generate itself.
Magellan Maestro 4700 GPS announced
There are just a handful of names when it comes to reliable GPS navigation technology, and Magellan ranks as one of them.
Yahoo to release Search Pad for your web notes
Much to the despair of old-school librarians, web search has become the default first stop when most people do research.
The 10 top myths about starting a business
Many entrepreneurs believe a bunch of myths about entrepreneurship, so here are 10 of the most common and the realities that bust them: 1. It takes a lot of money to finance a new business.
Facebook no longer just a pretty interface
Is Facebook a phenomenon or a fad? Even as it has grown to more than 200 million users and become the global leader in social networking Web sites, many people see it as just a nifty way for people to share information and images among far-flung friends and acquaintances.
Google App Engine suffers 6hr outage
Google becomes the latest member to the Cloud Outage club , with a near 6 hour outage rendering the whole infrastructure completely off line.
Google maps Australian property market
Location, location, location ... Google has released their Australian developed real estate search that allows potential buyers a chance to scope out properties on the market.