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Eliot Phillips of Hackaday, previously part of Weblogs Inc has announced that they are not part of the AOL purchase deal of Weblogs, Inc. In other words, they are now on their own.
Continue reading ‘Hack a day goes independent’
Weblogs Inc, the blog network started by Jason Calacanis that is capable of bringing in a million a year through Google Ads revenue is reportedly sold to America Online for $30-$35 million.
The deal is already one and it should be announced soon.
This finally has to come. Several big names in recording industry have filed copyright infringement suit case against Baidu, the biggest Chinese search engine. Universal, EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and their local subsidiaries, Cinepoly, Go East and Gold Label allege that the search service makes it easy for users to listen to and download illegal copies of their songs.
For those living outside of China, don’t be surprised to find that finding MP3 is surprisingly easy in China (so is finding warez). It’s a common thing to do in China by search engines to add in MP3 searching tool to attract users. Yisou, a Yahoo company also has music.yisou.com for easy MP3 searching and downloading.
The Baidu suitcase is sure a tip of the iceberg. To learn how easy it is to find MP3 (chinese songs in particular) with major chinese search engines, try to search for “è€?é¼ çˆ±å¤§ç±³”, a popular chinese song with the following sites.
The recent Skype acquisition by eBay still hasn’t convinced you that I.T. field is a lucrative goldmine to be with? Ok, try this. Oracle has announced that they have agreed to acquire rival Siebel for $10.66 a share. In a simpler way to understand the deal, the offer is valued at approximately $5.85 billion, or $3.61 billion net of Siebel’s cash on hand of $2.24 billion.
The rumor I reported last week turned out to be true. EBay, the world’s biggest online auction site has announced that they have agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA for a whopping 2.6 billion dollars. The official announcement has been made avialable on Skype’s homepage here.
Remember the fact that there is only one software by Skype. How many copies of Windows does Microsoft have to sell in order to raise that amount of money?
Reports claim that the number 1 online auction site eBay may spend 2 to 3 billion dollars to buy Skype.
Via BBC.
The Guardian reports that Empire Poker is possibly to be sold at 1.3 billion dollars soon. What makes this deal interesting is, Empire Poker is effectively a “gambler recruiter” that redirects members to sites like Party Poker and 888.com where the poker and casino games take place. In other words, it does not provide “tables” (virtual or real) for the members to play the games on.
Link: Guardian Unlimited (via).
Technorati, the most popular blog search engine is reportedly to be sold to a “large search engine company” very soon, as according to this story. Another big purchase from Yahoo after this?
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This just has to come. Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit foundation behind the popular Firefox browser, has setup a new wholly owned taxable (reads: for-profit) subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. The company is responsible for productizing and distributing Firefox, Thunderbird, and related branded products built on the Mozilla open source code base.
Does that mean you’ll have to pay to use Firefox? No, it’s stated clearly in their reorganization FAQ that the flagship products Firefox and Thunderbird will remain free.
Link: Mozilla Foundation Reorganization (via).
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