Posted by Vikrant
Business
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Microsoft has launched an online marketplace for people to post and find freelance jobs, named Task Market. The differentiating factor for Task Market from other online freelance marketplaces is that the jobs should be the ones which could be completed using Microsoft Office products. So, you will not find any technology related jobs at Task [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Friday, May 16th, 2008
eBay has integrated PayPal Pay Later option for U.S. buyers to purchase qualifying products priced between $50 and $199. The Pay Later option will be available for the customers while checking out and if the customer is not a registered PayPal user, he/she can sign up to avail the credit service immediately during the checkout [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Ask.com has acquired Lexico Publishing which owns the reference sites like Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. As part of the acquisition, Ask will acquire all the reference properties of Lexico Publishing Group LLC. Ask.com, a search engine owned by IAC/InteractiveCorp, has less than five percent share of total U.S. search market. With the acquisition of Dictionary.com [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Plaxo, which was looking for getting acquired for a long time, has finally managed to get acquired by one of its customers, ComCast. The company will continue to operate as an independent unit post the acquisition and will report into Comcast Interactive Media. ComCast which was using Plaxo’s addressbook service for its webmail users will [...]
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Business
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Real Deal Docs is a place for all people like lawyers, entrepreneurs, suppliers, investors and even general public who want to refer to legal documents, contracts, agreements and clauses made by attorneys for real world deals and cases. The website has a collection of over 1 million deal documents related to Merger and Acquisitions, Corporate [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
AOL has announced that it has acquired Sphere, the content engine. Sphere is a contextual search engine which delivers matching content from blogs, videos, photos and other media channels. The discovered content is then displayed in a pop-over window or through a widget. The Sphere widget lets publishers better engage their audience by providing related [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
AOL has announced a deal with Verizon under which Platform-A will manage Verizon’s online ad inventory. Under the deal, Verizon will get to use Platform-A’s sales force, along with its ad-serving, targeting, and inventory management capabilities. This deal is a major success for Platform-A which is a the centerpiece of AOL’s restructuring. Apart from online [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
American Airlines has cancelled more than 900 additional flights on Thursday as a result of the ongoing safety inspections of its MD-80 aircrafts. Since Tuesday, more than 2400 flights have been cancelled in view of the inspection ordered by the FAA. The cancellations have affected over 300,000 passengers who are now looking for a refund. [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Verizon communication has filed a suit on Wednesday, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, against Time Warner Cable for misguiding the video customers using false advertising. Verizon has claimed in the suit, ads from Time Warner Cable’s TV ads falsely imply that Time Warner’s network is better than Verizon’s [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Business
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Oracle Retail Applications have been selected by India’s Aditya Birla Retail Limited to power the retail brand’s plans of transforming the Indian retail sector. Oracle will provide retail merchandising, planning and supply chain applications to Aditya Birla group for supporting the company’s growth plan in the retail sector. It will also provide Oracle Financials, Oracle [...]
