Microsoft Is Close To A Deal To Buy Skype For $7 Billion
Microsoft Corp. is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion. According to the WSJ report, the final price…
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Microsoft Office 365 Is The New Google Docs
Microsoft has launched an office suit online app, Microsoft 365 in beta yesterday. The web office suit is a sophisticated meeting scheduler, mobile integration, and online meetings support. Microsoft 365…
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Mike McCue, Founder And CEO of Flipboard
# Mike McCue is the founder and CEO of Flipboard. # Flipboard is a social magazine that aggregates web links from your social and creates a personalized magazine. # After…
Ad.ly Runs Celebrity Endorsements of Brands in Social Media
Ad.ly is an in-stream advertising platform that intelligently connects brand with influencers that publish content in streams like Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and more. More than 1,000 of the top celebrities…
Two Former Microsoft Engineers Launch Rome2rio- Travel Search and Route Planner
Two former Microsoft engineers have launched a travel search tool that combines product search with end-to-end route planning. rome2rio is a travel search engine that shows you how to get…
10 Workspaces In New York That Share Elements of Incubators
Freelance, writers and entrepreneurs can work from anywhere and they tend to operate from coffee houses and coffee shop/cafés.These startup workspaces provide a collaborative and conducive environment where you can…
Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator Award:NeighborGoods Wins Best Bootstrapped Startup
Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps fast-track the success of early stage technology startups with all the right resources, including software, support & marketing visibility. Out of 450…
Groupon Generated $760M In Revenues In 2010, Up From $33M In 2009
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that is localized to major geographic markets worldwide. The service was Launched in November 2008. The daily deals website saw its revenue surge to $760…
Share Your Likes With Friends And Make Money With MyLikes
MyLikes is a word-of-mouth advertising platform on the social web. Unlike traditional advertising platforms which are run of site or based contextual data, such as the page being viewed or…
A Russian Startup, Pirate Pay Receives $100,000 Grant From Microsoft
Microsoft has announced that in 10 years, it intends to pay grants to 100 Russian startup companies. This is part of Microsoft’s long-tern agreement with the Russian Foundation of the…
Call of Duty: Black Ops Demo Now Available For Download
The thrilling mission from Call of Duty®: Black Ops, WMD, is now available worldwide for download as a single player demo on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video…
Google Cloud Connect Now Available To Sync Google Docs & Microsoft Office
Google released on its blog today that Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office is now available to everyone. Google Cloud Connect is a free plugin that improves Microsoft Office 2003,…
The Viira Outlook Suite: BlackBerry And Microsoft Outlook Synchronized
The Viira Outlook Suite brings together the power of a BlackBerry smartphone and Microsoft Outlook into a personal productivity suite that helps you stay organized and get things done from…
Nominate Now: CompTIA IT Hall Of Fame
Less than two weeks remain for nominations for the new IT Hall of Fame created by CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the IT industry. The IT Hall of Fame…
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 To Be Made Available Globally On February 28
Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer today announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, the cloud version of the new Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 release that delivers new levels…
Digital Retail Analysis Start-up Profitero Wins Innovation Cubed 2010 Competition
Digital retail analysis start-up Profitero has won the Innovation Cubed 2010 competition held by the business centre Media Cube in Dun Laoghaire. Profitero has also picked up the best start-up…