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Word is out : Yahoo to reject Microsoft bid

Posted by: hchandola on: February 9, 2008

Wall street journal is reporting that Yahoo’s board plans to reject Microsoft’s bid. WSJ is still paid, so below is what Bloomberg has to say.
I can’t say whether its undervalued or not, but Yahoo’s brand would definitely get diluted with microsoft’s acquisition.
Yahoo! Inc., the world’s second most popular Internet search engine, plans to reject Microsoft [...]

Chirp: Small Idea,Big names?

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

Well nothing great about this start up. Remember those days when all you really did on your computer was to download a few cool screen savers,wallpapers and just made sure you dont fall asleep while browsing through clicks after clicks of junk…..
Chirp just add’s the facebook and flicker feeds into your screensavers and hence gives [...]

More Controversy around Facebook

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

Facebook is no stranger to the complaints of privacy activists. First, it was the site’s News Feed feature back in 2006. Most recently, the company’s Beacon service drew widespread criticism. This blog post will outline yet another major privacy issue, in which Facebook recklessly exposes user data.
Facebook launched its widely popular application developer program back [...]

Playyoo: A Network of Casual Mobile gamers and developers

Posted by: Siwal on: January 24, 2008

After being in private beta for the last three months, Playyoo is opening its doors for everyone this morning. The site is aimed at casual gamers who like playing games on their mobile phones. Like Kongregate, game developers can show off their wares and interact directly with the people playing them. Better yet, anyone without [...]

Noca plans to make online transactions completely free

Posted by: Siwal on: January 23, 2008

If you sell anything online, whether physical goods or services, you’re probably keenly aware of the 2-3% (plus $0.30) lost through transactional fees every time someone makes a purchase with their credit card. This fee rears its ugly head whether you use PayPal, Google Checkout, or Amazon Flexible Payment Service since those companies are largely [...]

Scrabulous debate may rewrite the rules of the game

Posted by: Siwal on: January 18, 2008

as reported on news.com 
“I’ll go on a hunger strike!”
So said one adamant Facebook user in the wake of the news that game manufacturers Hasbro and Mattel were trying to do something about the wildly popular, unquestionably addictive online game known as Scrabulous.
The game, which rose to fame when its creators turned it into an embeddable [...]

Why Facebook will be worth 100 Billion

Posted by: Siwal on: January 16, 2008

Here’s a great post from Lee (Altura ventures, adonomics.com) who runs the Altura fund, the facebook (F8) applications focussed fund. Altura took over appaholic.com(App’s) a facebook analytics website and renamed it to adonomics.com (Ad’s + Apps)
Introduction

The Altura Ventures’ Genesis Story — I was not present on May 24th at the launch of the F8 [...]

Here’s Josh(business2.0 founder) writing on what seems to be a tough situation for the two Indian entrepreneurs who launched their facebook app (Scrabulous) last year and are now sitting on a web property that gets 70 Mill page views a month
Hasbro, the owner of the game scrabble, is gunning to bring down the facebook app [...]

A 23-year old programmer in Thailand has launched a Twitter-like service that lets users add location-based information to their Facebook profile, website, or blog.
The Thailand-based service is called LetsProveWhere, and Peerapong Pulpitpatnan (aka “Pete”) developed it almost single-handedly in just three months. After a few days, he’s reporting about 100 registered users.
Pete says he got [...]

Flip.com aims to be a Social Net App Starting With Facebook

Posted by: Siwal on: January 11, 2008

As reported on one of the blogs
CondeNet is remaking its teen-focused community site Flip.com into an app that will live on other social nets. The first to get the new Flip app is Facebook, with others to follow, CondeNet announced a few minutes ago. The company will continue to operate Flip’s website. However, moving [...]