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Can real-time search make a buck? OneRiot restructures
Written on 30 Jul, 2010 at 19:38 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
The biggest of the independent real-time search engines, OneRiot, restructured its management today and laid off an unknown number of employees, including the company’s co-founder Robert Reich. Kimbal Musk, a serial entrepreneur who served as chief executive, is stepping... (Continue reading)
Updated: Error leads to reports that Google search is blocked in China
Written on 29 Jul, 2010 at 18:50 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
[Update: Google said its machines may have overestimated blockage to its services and that users are accessing search normally in the country.] Google says its web search is now fully blocked in China. A public site where Google has... (Continue reading)
Privacy legislation looms as Facebook CEO heads to Washington
Written on 29 Jul, 2010 at 14:08 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two other Facebook executives have gone to Washington D.C. this week to explain the company’s stance on privacy as momentum builds for online consumer privacy legislation. ... (Continue reading)
Zuckerberg’s “quite sure” he didn’t give away Facebook in 2003
Written on 22 Jul, 2010 at 5:55 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Mark Zuckerberg said that he was “quite sure” he didn’t sign any documents in 2003 that could have potentially handed over a majority stake in Facebook. He made the statement during an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC World... (Continue reading)
Six years on, Facebook crosses half a billion users
Written on 21 Jul, 2010 at 12:46 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Facebook crossed a half-billion active users today , a little over six years after it launched out of Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard. The company is celebrating by crowdsourcing stories from users about how the social network has... (Continue reading)
Yahoo’s second-quarter revenue rises by 2%, misses estimates
Written on 20 Jul, 2010 at 22:13 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Yahoo’s net income rose by more than 50 percent from the same period a year ago, but overall revenue fell short of analysts’ estimates. Analysts had estimated on average that the company would pull in $1.16 billion in sales... (Continue reading)
Zuckerberg had a contract with man suing for 84% ownership of Facebook
Written on 20 Jul, 2010 at 15:23 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Mark Zuckerberg did have a contract with the New York man who is suing him and claims that he is entitled to own 84 percent of Facebook, a company lawyer said. But the lawyer is “unsure” of whether it... (Continue reading)
PiCloud promises simple access to the cloud
Written on 19 Jul, 2010 at 21:06 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Even though there are a number of services that help companies take advantage of cloud computing infrastructure, a new startup called PiCloud says it can make things easier still. ... (Continue reading)
Real-time search engine OneRiot adds data from Google Buzz
Written on 19 Jul, 2010 at 21:06 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Real-time search engine OneRiot is adding the full feed of data from Google’s Buzz social sharing service to its results. This announcement comes on top of its recent addition of Facebook’s “firehose,” a real-time feed of every publicly shared... (Continue reading)
Revamped document site Crocodoc raises funding
Written on 14 Jul, 2010 at 16:53 in VentureBeat | viewed times | 0 Comments
Crocodoc , a startup that offers a free tool for annotating documents, just announced that it has raised angel funding from high-profile backers. The investors include Dave McClure, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Gmail creator and FriendFeed cofounder Paul Buchheit,... (Continue reading)