Take that Larry Page and Sergey Brin- I am richer than you guys- Mark Zuckerberg Facebook founder
If you remember, GSV Capital bought 225,000 shares of Facebook, valuation of about $70 billion. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the major shareholder in Facebook, so now he ranks third richest tech guys in the world with net worth is over $18 billion behind Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bill Gates worth $56 billion and Oracle’s (ORCL) Larry Ellison worth $39.5 billion. Well ahead Google (GOOG) Sergey Brin and Larry Page ($17 billion).
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What is new at Google’s annual developer conference (Google I/O 2011)?
With the announcement of Android tablets coming in the near future, Google’s annual developer conference (Google I/O 2011 ) on May 10 and 11 sold out under an hour Monday morning. In 2010, the conference actually took 50 days to sell out. Technology experts believe that this may be due to the interest in Google’s Android and Chrome, especially since the announcement of Android tablets.
Tickets for Google I/O 2011, the annual developer [...]
Why Facebook and YouTube co-founders Eduardo Saverin & Jawed Karim Invested $8M In Qwiki?
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim are among the leading investors in an $8-million round of financing for a Silicon Valley start-up Qwiki. Qwiki is a startup that responds to search queries with interactive multimedia presentations rather than links, co-founded by entrepreneur Doug Imbruce and Internet industry pioneer Dr. Louis Monier (founder of AltaVista). The site is currently in invite-only alpha [...]
What does geolocation-based Google HotPot do- Yelp-And-Foursquare Killer, share place recommendations?
Google have announced on its blog their new location based recommendation engine called Google HotPot. Google Hotpot is a local recommendations engine powered by you and your friends. You start by looking for a certain place category in your area – or any other area you’re interested in.
Results are displayed as cards, including a picture of the place, the average rating so far and links to save them for later or hide them from results [...]
What is Google Refine and how to Install it?
Google Refine is a open source tool for working with datasets, including but not limited to Freebase. According to David Huynh, Google Search Infrastructure, it can be used for: “cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases.”
How to Install-
Desktop application Download
For Windows users, Once you have downloaded the [...]
SortFix a unique search technology for personalized search experience
SortFix is a new enterprising company that has developed a unique search technology for providing a personalized search experience. Combining powerful text-analysis algorithms with a simple and intuitive SUI (Search User Interface), SortFix allows users to easily define a concept or a question, then sort, navigate, review, and update their search query in order to retrieve results that meet their requirements.
SortFix’s Birth.
SortFix [...]
Why Google in talks to buy airline IT and services provider ITA Software for up to $1B?
Google (GOOG) is in talks to acquire, an airline IT and services provider, ITA Software , a provider of travel software used by Kayak.com, CheapTickets, as well as Bing Travel and Orbitz and others. The price of the transaction could be as high as $1 billion.
Bloomberg reports that Google is in talks to acquire software firm ITA Software Inc. ITA is hardly a household name, but web users have probably used the company’s offerings and didn’t [...]
Former Bebo CEO Joanna Shields leaves Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group to join Facebook
Former Bebo president and CEO Joanna Shields has left Liz Murdoch’s Shine Group and joined Facebook in a senior European role. She will runs sales and business development for the Facebook in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Blake Chandless, who had been running the EMEA group for Facebook, will run sales in “emerging markets” — Eastern Europe, Asia, etc.
Last week, Facebook hired top-ranking Google ad exec David Fischer as its [...]
Google Buys Mobile Email Utility reMail, Gabor Cselle joins Gmail team.
Google [[GOOG]] has acquired reMail, a company that provides advanced email search capabilities for the iPhone platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. First thing Google did after the takeover was to cut Remail’s ties with Apple’s App Store, reMail founder Gabor Cselle @gabor, who founded email start-up reMail in 2008, and was YCombinator funded in 2009, posted today on his personal blog. Cselle is [...]
Associated Press (AP) stories back on Google News
The Associated Press (AP) have returned to Google [[GOOG]] News, Wall Street Journal noticed that AP stories have been filtering back onto the site. It is unclear whether Google’s decision to start hosting new AP articles, which began appearing a little over an hour ago, reflects a change in the status of talks. The AP didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
A Google spokesman issued the following statement: “We have a [...]
Russian Quintura search engine CEO Yakov Sadchikov says Google is breaching its patent
Russian Quintura search CEO Yakov Sadchikov says Google [[GOOG]] and other search engines are breaching its Visual Search Patent. Quintura search is available since June 2006 . The search is based on the new See and Find technology. Quintura is similar to an advanced search feature on content web sites. However, Quintura gives you the tools for efficiently searching the entire web.
The Quintura cloud or visual map shows the context of your [...]
AOL goes social with Facebook and AIM instant messaging client partnership
Facebook and AOL Inc. [[AOL]] announced a partnership that will allow AIM instant messaging client users to add friends and chat with their Facebook friends. The allows AIM users to send and receive instant messages to their Facebook friends, who also become part of AIM’s “Buddy” lists. AIM has about 17 million users — a fraction of the more than 400 million on Facebook.
There’s already a beta version available for [...]
