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Microsoft offers to buy FAST for $1.2 Billion

In a bid that will shake up the enterprise search market (currently held mainly by niche players), Microsoft has offered to buy the Norway based enterprise search company FAST for a neat $1.2 billion, more...
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Startup Pudding Media takes first funding

Pudding Media has pulled in $8 Million in its first round of funding from Opus Capital. It is trying to create a way where the advertisements will be entirely determined by the conversation at hand, and more...
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Startup Aims to Revive SF Free WiFi Initiative

Greg Sterling writes about Meraki, the Silicon Valley wireless startup that is aiming to solve a problem that Google and Earthlink had taken up but gave up: providing free WiFi blanket to all those wonderful more...
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Blekko preparing to attack Google

Blekko, A new startup started in a Garage and aiming to dislodge the Search Engine giant of today, Google. Techcrunch has a nice story. more...
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Startup ChaCha Dances with Mobile Search

Anne Zelenka describes what this startup ChaCha is planning to do: effective searching, which often involves orienteering — finding information step-by-step, and using local context at each step as a more...
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Google incorporating “Universal Activity Stream” in OpenSocial

Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch writes about the how Google is incorporating Facebook becon (yes, the controversial feature) into OpenSocial. Facebook's becon feature monitors the activity of users on partners more...
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With human-powered search engine, Mahalo takes a step forward

“We’re somewhere in between Google, which is automated, and Wikipedia, which is put together by people,” Jason McCabe Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo said in a phone call. “We believe search as a problem more...
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Zoho lets you take your work Offline

Zoho Writer get the offline editing capability. Zoli is reporting on his blog that this activity has to be a planned activity, since you have to checkout the documents for offline availablity when you more...
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Google co-founder Page 'to marry'

Google co-founder Larry Page is finally getting married to Lucy Southworth, his girlfriend for a year. Marriage is rumored to take place at Necker Island in the Birtish Virgin Islands. The other Google more...
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Google will let you give thumbs up or down to search results

Google is experimenting a voting feature where users would give thumbs up or down to search results. Social News site Digg is front runner and runs the website based on voting only, where user gives thumbs more...
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