Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Google has announced will be announcing the extension of their 99.9% SLA for its non-premier googlers. According to this if Google fails to come up to the terms in the SLA, the customers will be eligible to receive credits for service. This would entitle customers to service from Google in case of failures. The idea is to extend guarantees to the valued customers, based on Google maintaining a high quality for its services when it comes to crashes and downtime.

Product Management Director, Google Enterprise, Mathew Glotzbach stated in his post:

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Oosah made a major announcement regarding the extension of its customizable and embeddable widgets. According to the new roll out, Oosah would enable its users to create widgets using pics, videos and much more via sites like YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, etc.

This would greatly help users in sharing their content from major web sites through these widgets. Simply embed these widgets into your blog, site etc without the need to register for an Oosah account. Mike Duggan, VP and COO Oosah commented on the latest development saying:

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Just because the iPhone looks fancy it doesn’t mean everyone cannot buy it. A comScore analysis report says that adoption of Apple’s phone among low income consumers have increased to 48%. The income range of the customers defined is between $25,000 to $49,000. Following is the chart of the report.

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Launched with an objective to enable users to share their knowledge, Google  Knol has articles on various topics written by people on specific objects. With a countless people publishing a large amount content, searching out a relevant one proved to be a difficult job and Knol has finally added Custom Search to satisfy its users.

This would provide users with a faster and more efficient way to perform search and one that provides relevant results. Knolling experience will definitely become much better with the addition of Custom Search.

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It appears that the current fallout is making its way into Facebook and already has the management biting nails that has to cater to a $400 million sum in annual costs. These include salaries for employees along with other expenses. However with its new design not really getting that much of a flare and ad publishers in no mood to take risks, Facebook is bound to have some tough time.

The result may not be directly booting employees to reduce costs (and I am being very optimistic here) but it will definitely freeze any sort of hiring. Apart from that there can be stricter rules to follow and a slight error may very well have an employee shown the door.

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We had earlier reported about Motorola cutting down 3,000 of its employees; which was a rumor. Presently air is carrying an added weight to the booted employees, taking the number to 5,000. Our sources at Motorola has hinted this out but there is no official say in this regard so far.

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The search giant Google has expanded its online encyclopedia Knol in three international languages. These languages include French, German and Italian. Google’s VP of Engineering, Udi Manber, at the occasion said:

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MYOB, an Australian financial software and service company, has got a takeover offer of 487.2 million AUD ($329M U.S.) from private equity group Archer Capital. Earlier this year, the group’s offer of $1.90 AUD per share was rejected, now the group is offering $1.15 AUD per share. MYOB’s shareholders have given their support for the takeover, but the final decision is yet to be made by the company’s board. The company is spread to seven countries.

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LucidLogix Technologies has raised $18 million in the third round of funding. The company makes real-time distributed processing engine for visual computing. The round was led by Rho Ventures and was participated by Genesis Partners and Giza Venture Capital. With this round of funding, the total amount raised by the company in VC funding has reached $32 million. Here is the press release.

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Microsoft announced it’s Azure cloud computing platform earlier this week,and along with it, Microsoft has engaged DELL server and storage services to build thus backend Datacenters for Microsoft to host Azure.

To build the Azure data center, Microsoft has engaged Dell’s Data Center Solutions division, an independent unit of the company — which has its own research, design, manufacturing, marketing, and sales employees — that was expressly created in the spring of 2006 to chase the cloud computing-Web 2.0-utility computing opportunity. DCS makes custom servers tuned for specific workloads and data center power and cooling envelopes.

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