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Skype Legend Bankrupt Trying To Save Newspaper

Posted: January 14, 2009

Morten Lund, the legendary investor behind Skype which was acquired by eBay for $2.6B has declared bankruptcy. Lund filed for bankruptcy in Denmark after losing $100 million in a Danish newspaper venture. The newspaper was distributed free daily and it was supported by advertising. Read more

 

Oprah Biggest User Of Skype Webcasts

Posted: January 14, 2009

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is the world’s biggest user of Skype. The Oprah Winfrey Show uses Skype for webcasts, conference calls and interviews with big time celebrities and dignitaries. The show Read more

 

Steve Jobs Steps Down

Posted: January 14, 2009

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees: Team, I am sure all of you saw my letter last week sharing something very personal with Read more

 

Google Cuts Engineers & Recruiters

Posted: January 15, 2009

Google has cut 100 full-time recruiters and has closed an engineering office in Austin, five months after it opened with a lavishly catered party, as well as others in Norway and Sweden. Google had hoped Read more

 

More Adults Joining Social Networks

Posted: January 14, 2009

BusinessWeek has a great write up on the growing number of adults using social networks. It is based on the information from the latest PEW Internet Research. The number of adults with at least one profile Read more

 

When Facebook Policy Goes Wrong

Posted: January 14, 2009

Earlier today Facebook shut down the highly successful Burger King Whopper Sacrifice application. The application that we previously wrote about, encourages users to remove ten of their friends in exchange Read more

 

New Yahoo CEO Wants Some ‘Friggin’ Breathing Room’

Posted: January 9, 2009

With Jerry stepping down some months ago after he turned down a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft and now relegated back to a more obscure Chief Yahoo!, the company has hired a new CEO. Gone Read more

 

Link re-working: this years SEO magic bullet?

Posted: January 14, 2009

Link re-working is something that keeps popping up on my radar and few recent events have prompted me to blog about it. Basically link re-working is the process of contacting people who already link to ... Read more

 

Eli Lilly On What's Next In Cloud Computing

Posted: January 14, 2009

Eli Lilly's Dave Powers talks compellingly about how the pharmaceuticals company is using cloud computing services to support its scientists with on-demand processing power and storage. What's even more Read more