Google had recently acquired ZAO Begun, Russian site Rambler Media’s advertising unit, thereby allowing Rambler to use Google’s technology for search and advertisements.
Though things didn’t seem to go as planned when Russian anti-trust regulators blocked Google’s bid to buy yet another firm; claiming that Google had not submitted complete information of their employees in Russia, hence Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) couldn’t evaluate the deal’s consequences.
There are a hundred options when it comes to choosing means of connecting with people around the globe and having services like, emailing, sms, integrated in one platform. Wadja is another one of those services that helps you get a grip over your online life and connect with those who matter to you.
The service provides various services including email, sms and mobile web messaging. The idea is to break the conventional social networking wall and spreads communication beyond all limitations.
Today, In this fast growing world, I.T has changed the way people used to think. New technological inventions have eased their way through people lives, giving them new heights of creativity and productivity. Therefore, this shift of paradigm has enforced the masses to be a part of this global village. Following the case, online I.T portals are need of the hour in order to employ right people at the right place and at the right time. The biggest benchmark of I.T is the automation of tasks that have changed trends dramatically to say the least.
To support the issue, CareerMantra, an online I.T job portal, intends to bestow various domains for people who want to make immense in the field of I.T. CareerMantra aims at providing people latest information of technologies, enabling them get to remain updated with rapidly changing technologies.
Creating a panoramic imaging has taken photography to the next level and eyes are on the look out for applications that can give this effect to the countless images we have in store. Panorama might be one of the pioneers in bringing such technology to the iPhone but another startup jumps in as competition. Pano from Debacle Software is another application added to the App Store giving you a chance to do something extra with those pictures.
Using the software, iPhone users can make capture what ever they want. The images taken are saved on the camera roll and after being put together using certain algorithms puts out a neat panoramic image that appears to have been taken in a single shot.
The Beverly Hills, California based video sharing site Break.com has laid off 11 employees. This was announced by Break’s CEO, Keith Richman. Once considered as YouTube’s competitor, the site now is more considered to be male specific.
Laying off employees seems to be a trend these days. If you are a company who is growing with a rate of 100% per year, would you fire your employees? Maybe you won’t but Break.com did it. The decision came despite of the fact that the company is growing at a very good rate (100%/year), has 80 employees and still hiring people for numerous jobs.
Search engines, the very name has one at ease that there is something where one can find anything one looks for. Be it images, pages, etc. The idea of having refined search adds more precision but what if one can have a dedicated search engine? How can you search for games alone?
If I type Puzzle in Google Search it would give me all sorts of results and irritated I would wish for one that only showed games in results. There is one such startup that comes to solve this problem of mine; GameCurry and I thank Killer Startups for bringing the service to light.
AOL recently did its service a favor by making some changes to its email site, adding a right-hand pane that features plug-ins to show AOL content as well as Yahoo Mail. AOL finance, MapQuest, AOL Radio, TMZ, and AOL Elections are all brought to you through this pane, allowing information accessibility at one place.
Where this is seen as a new intake by AOL, the Yahoo home-page now lets you check AOL Mail. With reference to this change, AOL Mail Vice President, Roy Ben-Yoseph, stated on AOL Mail’s blog:
Using the Internet ,the biggest issue that we all undoubtedly face, is the display of irrelevant information in response to our search, consequentially consuming a lot of time and effort.It continuously proves to be the toughest challenge for the Internet think tank and there must be a solution to counter this.
For that matter, Pixolu, an iconic image search tool; can be used to display images that best suite our query. Pixolu, performs refined search and it requires its users to enter a keyword of keywords, and therefore producing results ;that are closer to what intended to search. Moreover, this search engine can show up to 300 images for a particular request making it versatile in its own nature.
You may have come across several Gmail features in the recent past, such as Forgotten Attachment Detector, Chat box and Labels box movement feature and more. This time Gmail has come up with something more interesting and creative but its not a Gmail Labs feature, rather it is emoticons. Gmail has introduced a number of new emoticons which you can use while sending a message.
MG Siegler notes that with this induction of emoticons, the total number of these tiny illustrations have reached almost 200. Now you don’t have to write to express your mood or feelings, just put in some emoticons. A number of emoticons are seen moving, so it seems more helping with the words. You can also be creative with these emoticons, have a look at this one.
ShopIt that integrates social network with ecommerce sites to enable users of a social network to make purchases online has managed to bag in one third of the $7 million it had planned to raise. The amount totals to $2.5 million and the second round included the Emerson Ventures and Propulsion Ventures.
The funding would be used to boost business and improve the advertising division with more hiring in various departments. The service hits out success as it targets its business using the highly popular social networks.
