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Microsoft buys Skype, Still good news for Facebook
Contrary to the rumor mill about Facebook and Google negotiating a Skype deal, its Microsoft which walked away with the deal. According to Reuters, Microsoft has been Skype have been in the discussion for the past 6 weeks. Apparently even Cisco was in the race to buy Skype. With a close partnership with Microsoft, this is still a good deal. A partnership for providing voice and video service Read More
Facebook should Buy Skype not Google
There is a strong rumor circulating in the blogosphere about Facebook and Google negotiating a buyout/partnership with Skype. Skype is planning an IPO sometimes second half of this year. Looks like these strategic discussions might jeopardize the IPO route. Maybe they are looking for a different exit than IPO. Either way it’s going to be good news for Skype investors. Now coming back to who Read More
3Jam Group Messaging startup Acquired or Fire Sale
Well not sure if 3Jam is the first victim of Group Messaging war. From their website it looks like they have been purchased. There is no news about the company that bought 3Jam. It just says that the intellectual property has been purchased . Being in the startup industry for so long “IPR” buyout is not a very positive exit. 3JAM was one of the early bird in Group Messaging space. Too me Read More
Beware Apple spying your location
If you own an iPhone or Ipad then its very likely that Apple might know the details of all the places you have visited. It might sound scary but it’s true. Today at where 2.0, the latest discovery was made public. Apparently the recorded positions are stored into a hidden file called “consolidated.db”. The file contains latitude-longitude coordinates along with a timestamp. What’s Read More
Facebook gets Voice powered by T-Mobile
Well iam back, it’s been such a long time since I updated this blog. Professional and personal commitments kept me away from updating the blog. Sincere apologies to all the folks who had sent me mails requesting to start blogging again. Well Iam back. I guess year 2011 is turning out be to exciting times for startups. BTW, I have changed my blog address from latestgeeknews to 4Gwireless for Read More
Toshiba Satellite L455D-S5976 15.6-Inch Laptop (Matte Silver)
The Toshiba Satellite L455D-S5976 PSLY5U-00Q01T Notebook PC has an AMD Sempron SI-42 2.1GHz processor, 2GB of DDR2 memory, and Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit Operating System. This provides plenty of juice to tear through difficult software, graphics, and multitasking. Store your digital pictures, multimedia, programs (and anything else) on the 250GB SATA hard drive. The Toshiba Read More