Google is going to engage in venture capital?
July 31, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
The search engine which originally was a start-up, would be on the verge of creating his own investment fund to invest in innovative start-ups.
According to the site of the Wall Street Journal, the Internet group Google is on the verge of setting up a venture capital fund to invest in innovative start-ups. This structure, according to the same source, should be headed by the vice-president of business development American, David Drummond, and Bill Maris, a longtime friend of the wife of Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. 
For now, the search engine did not confirm the information. This is not the first time a manufacturer of computer sets up this type of structure: the Intel founder, telecom equipment manufacturer Motorola and Nokia mobiles each have their own structure respectively with funds Intel Capital , Motorola Ventures and Nokia Growth Partners.
Lively, the new virtual world of Google, welcomes its first companies
July 31, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Lively, the new virtual world of Google, welcomes its first companies
The platform of employment Noovojob is one of the first companies to create a space on Lively. One way for it to increase its visibility.
On 9 July last year, Google launched Lively, a social network for a new kind which is rather a virtual world, as Second Life. It can be reached fairly easily from a Gmail account (messaging search engine) and a
simple Web browser. Still in beta version, the new tool does not seem (yet?) Generate enthusiasm among businesses. However, some crossing the threshold of this new virtual world, like National Geographic and Noovojob. The platform of employment, already deployed on Second Life, has just opened its space on Lively.
The group Silvio Berlusconi calls for 500 million euros to YouTube
July 31, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
The group Silvio Berlusconi calls for 500 million euros to YouTube
Mediaset site accuses the illegal use of its programmes. One more complaint against YouTube, already attacked by Viacom and TF1.
Mediaset, the first group of private Italian television, controlled by the Council President, Silvio Berlusconi, continued to justice the American Internet portal Google and its subsidiary YouTube, purchased in 2006. It calls for 500 million euros for having illegally used some of its programmes.
Mediaset has complained to a Roman court, the group said Wednesday in a statement. “YouTube respects copyright and treats this issue very seriously,” insured for its part a spokesman for the Internet Group in London.
Microsoft investing in Open source
July 30, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Interoperability requires, the company continues its rapprochement with the world of free software. It contributes to Apache, language and Ruby Runtime Environment PHP.
Ipod could have a new competitor in the next few months
July 30, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Dell will probably be competing to the iPod that would be sold less for than $ 100 .
According to the Wall Street Journal “, the computer manufacturer is preparing to leave his portable Wi-Fi with a software provided on its laptops.
The iPod could have a new competitor in the coming months. Dell is testing for several months a digital music market that could as early as September 2008. The information is disclosed by the Wall Street Journal, citing several officials of the computer manufacturer.
