Changes to business digitisation brings
Looks like Facebook and Intel are happy to tell everyone that they’re going out together – and Intel will be providing their server processors.
Facebook users the world over will be breathing a sign of relief, as frankly it can be a real drag to use it, as it often runs like treacle.
Google are ever-keen to merge their services — but in a subtle way — so you don’t realise that they are taking over the world.
The latest trick along this path that we’ve noticed is them putting Google Maps into Google Text Ads.
Marissa Mayer, the acceptable face to Google’s tech dork-ery, appears to have slipped up somewhat.
She let it out that Google News — one of the only areas of Google that doesn’t have advertising on — generates them around $100 million a year in referrals to main Google, from the 47 million people a month looking at it.
Cuil, pronounced Cool, is a new search engine, one that’s thought to be able to take on Google. Quite an ambition.
Who’s Cuil?
Cuil has been hidden away, getting their technology sorted and, as of this morning, they’ve decided to open their searches up for public browsing.
Currently burning up the blogosphere is the hot rumour that search giants Google are in final negotiations to acquire the user-driven, social content website Digg for “around $200 Million.”
Vodafone Board feels that their shares are undervalued at present, so to build the share price up again, they’ve just sanctioned the self-purchase of up to £1 Billion of their own shares.
The publication of this decision comes the day after a Vodafone’s shared dropped almost 14% over the day, the largest single-day drop in its history.
Unbridled bouts of iJoy erupted around Apple HQ yesterday as the company posted a hefty profit of $1.07 billion on revenue of $7.46 billion for its financial quarter ending June 30, 2008.
This whopping great bag o’cash adds up to Apple’s best-ever June quarter for both revenue and earnings, with the company’s total gross margin exceeding industry expectations, with $1.33 billion in cash being added to Apple’s bulging coffers.
Netflix and Microsoft have signed a deal to stream films and TV programmes to the Xbox 360.
Starting in the autumn, over 10,000 films and TV episodes available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers who are Netflix subscribers, all for no additional cost.
Yahoo has firmly rebuffed a deal from Microsoft that would have seen the search giant selling off its search business and handing over the rest of the company to ‘activist investor’ Carl Icahn.
Yahoo is on the move again after their shenanigans with Microsoft and the possible take over.
Today they’ve announced that they’re getting in to ad-supported downloadable games.