DailyFill, the gossip site launched about two months ago, has shown a lot of progress – as Quantcast stats show that the site already has 1.7 million unique visitors. DailyFill was created by Slingshot Labs and seems promising enough to, perhaps, match up to TMZ and Yahoo’s OMG.
Archive for January, 2009
Sun Microsystem has confirmed that the company has laid off 1,300 employees. The job cuts are part of the restructuring plan which was first announced in November last year. According to the plan, around 6,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs. According to the company the job cuts are made across all the levels.
According to a statement released by the company:
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Xactly Corp., a provider of sales compensation & performance management software acquired rival company Centive Inc. The transaction was undisclosed. Christopher Cabrera, president and CEO of Xactly Corporation said:
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Addictive IPhone Word Game – Stitch’em Words – video powered by Metacafe
Checkout this video of a new iPhone app on the App Store: Stitch’em Words. The game’s quite addictive and is a good activity when you’re bored and have nothing else to do, as it’s both entertaining and doesn’t let your brain snooze off. When asked about the app, Syed Ali Jafri, the developer - a graduate from McMasters’, mentioned the app’s description:
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As Microsoft announced the layoffs, jobs from a number of departments are about to be cut. Around 5,000 employees will lose their jobs in the next 18 months. According to some reports the software giant has made hundreds of job cuts from the game division.
According to CNET:
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ScreenToaster recently launched some new features adding to its easy way of rapidly creating and sharing tutorials, demos, training, lectures and more.
As covered before by StartupMeme, ScreenToaster is a free web-based screen recorder designed to capture screen activity in real-time then embed videos in blogs and websites. It works in all browsers and doesn’t require any download. The new features are:
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IMVU Inc. raised $10 million in Series D funding, led by Best Buy Capital and joined by Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital and Bridgescale Partners. The virtual (3D) dating network will utilize the funds in developing its 3D virtual community further. It has already reached 30 million registrations, where people use online 3D avatars to meet new people. Shawn Carolan, Managing Director of Menlo Ventures stated:
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Adtech Global Solution (AGS), a worldwide service & engineering organization, bought out IP assets of Steelbox Networks Inc. in a foreclosure sale. Steelbox, a video surveillance company, gives AGS an industry-leading technology that will cater to the needs of the growing market. Tim Shadburn, AGS’ CEO stated:
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