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image5 YouSendIt sends home 14 of its employeesYouSendIt, a web based service for sending large files has decided to cut its cost of delivering pays to its employees by waving goodbye to 14 of them. The company has been brought in a different reason, stating that the cuts have been made to redirect more resources towards the enterprise side.

With a total funding of $34 million in its pocket, the company definitely has plans to spend $14 million from the third round into this idea. I think he better step would have been to lower the price as it’s pretty high compared to various other services. This in turn would bring more users and eventually more business.

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image thumb1 Google might boot its deal with YahooGoogle might have no issues when it comes to acquiring a business, or getting involved in a partnership, but what it can’t take is people peeping into the science of how they run their business. Google’s deal with Yahoo might get a green signal if only Google permits inspectors to get in and keep an eye at their business. This signals trouble heading Yahoo’s way, as it’s obvious that a failed deal would only  hammer Yahoo.

Nobody can much as to what exactly happens. Perhaps this shout from Google is primarily to put some pressure on the Department of Justice to make haste or pull this latest controversy off. One thing is for sure that Yahoo must be ready to dial in Microsoft anytime soon.

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image1 KillerStartups takes in Startups.comKillerStartups.com with a tag of being one of the most readable blog in the web-sphere that has taken the task of reviewing the latest startups has announced its acquisition of Startups.com. The site with over 1.5 million monthly visitors has kept its readers engaged in reading more than 60,000 startups that it has reviewed thus far.

CEO KillerStartups.com, Gonzalo Arzuaga talked about their strategy for success rests at being aggressive in their work. he stated

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image thumb Yahoo has something to cheer; Video streams jump up by 56%

Yahoo must have been rolling in all sorts of trouble but latest reporting puts it in a healthy position at streaming videos. Of course it’s second to the mammoth 5.3 billion streams by YouTube with 264 million, but that number boosted up by 95 million in August.

The point isn’t about comparing Yahoo with YouTube, for the latter simply beats it by an astronomical margin. What’s important here is that Yahoo is still trying to grip the number two slot in the web-sphere. The interesting aspect however is how beats YouTube when it comes to monetizing its video content. That percentage is much higher than YouTube’s three percent videos that are being monetized. Yahoo speaks of this rise coming from the placement of contextual videos and due to major news events.

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tpb img TPB Update: The Pirate Bay   Then and Now

At the Hack In The Box Security Conference 2008 (Malaysia), Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, co-founders of Pirate Bay, talked about their site. The two discussed how The Pirate Bay grew to be the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, and the challenges they face today. The talk was basically focused on the site’s sudden pop-up and claim-to-fame, as it became the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker in a short period of time. This was under the topic of discussion: ‘How To Dismantle a Billion Dollar Industry’.

On describing both their pasts, in the ‘80s, which consists of a list of copyright infringements, Peter mentioned that as a kid he didn’t think piracy was wrong, but now that he’s an adult, he knows it not. Thereby the discussion went on to shed light on the year 2003, when they involved themselves in founding Piratbyrån – a Bureau of Piracy, in response to anti-Piratbyrån. The aim was to start a debate on copyright issues, and how they affect society. The involvement in Piratbyrån led to many pro-piracy projects, leading to the founding of The Pirate Bay, in Nov 21, 2003; as a need was felt, for having a file-sharing network in Sweden.

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image thumb197 Microsoft PDC – Few Announcements, The RoundUp All this week I have been covering about the Microsoft PDC, that took place in LA, giving us insights about future of Microsoft’s vision and details about many platforms, products and services to be delivered by the software behemoth.

Well here are a few codenames I’d like you to know about:

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image thumb196 Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Other’s JOIN HANDS for Principles on Freedom of Expression and PrivacyIn order to support more freedom of expression, freedom of information access to users and more knowledge sharing society to be enabled, top companies of the World including that of Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Human right Society, Calvert group etc have joined hands in to enable the internet centric world to be more aware of expression of thoughts, media etc.

We all know that few countries (CHINA etc, KSA shhh), have certain restrictions on ease of availability of access of knowledge to every member of the community due to sometimes thought’s of society or political cum religious issues.

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image thumb194 Tired of PowerPoint? Make Fantastic Presentations With SliderocketPowerPoint is almost a DE-FACTO standard for making and running presentation almost anywhere on the Blue Planet. And yes indeed Office 2007 PowerPoint is rich in UI and features. But OpenOffice isn’t far behind as well, with it’s version 3 just popping out from the oven this October. But what if now that you’re tired of making the same old presentations with the same old templates available on Microsoft Office?

Well here comes SlideRocket to the RESCUE!!! SlideRocketOne of the most impressive Flex-based applications out there, SlideRocket, is now open for anyone to go and sign up.

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image thumb193 Microsoft PDC   Microsoft Research Preview SecondLight technology Remember the Surface Computer? Yeah the same one with multitouch computing capability that Microsoft announced last year. Now the brains from Microsoft Research introduced in the PDC a technology called SecondLight.

SecondLight is a variation on the Microsoft Surface computer, the twist is that it can actually project a second image through the first image, which can land on a sheet of paper, a plastic sheet, or anything else semi-transparent that you want to use as a make shift secondary (or third, fourth, fifth) display. Those displays can also have their own multitouch capabilities in the air. WOW now that’s fantastic. I could make my paper touchable now!!!

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tmz logo Mechanical Zoo raises $6M in Series A Social search startup The Mechanical Zoom raised $6 million in a Series A round of funding, led by August Capital. The startup founded by a team of former Google employees aims to tailor web search results to cater to personal tastes. This would be done by tapping into a user’s social graph, that means the service will help users pick out the right person among the tens of thousands in their extended network, to answer a particular question.

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