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Publié: octobre 24, 2007, 11:29pm CEST
UPDATED - This afternoon, Microsoft won the apparent battle for an equity stake in social networking applications provider Facebook, making a $240 million equity investment in the company. In exchange, Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party supplier of Facebook's advertising platform.
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Publié: octobre 24, 2007, 10:09pm CEST
A patent application turned up by the Associated Press reveals that IBM has proposed an electronic trading system that would enable a new kind of derivatives market for intellectual property. In this market, traders would buy and sell "floating" rights to chunks of a company's IP portfolio, thus becoming not only the recipient of royalties from that portfolio, but the designated defender of those IP rights in court, for a limited period of time.
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Publié: octobre 24, 2007, 9:53pm CEST
Security firm Sophos Labs published its most recent "dirty dozen" report, saying that the United States relays more spam than any other country by a tremendous margin.
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Publié: octobre 24, 2007, 9:07pm CEST
While HD DVD may be trumpeting the success of Transformers, the format is still struggling to take the lead back from rival Blu-ray. Sony's format has seen sales of 2.6 million discs from January 1 to September 30, compared with 1.4 million discs sold on HD DVD.
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Publié: octobre 24, 2007, 8:55pm CEST
While Mozilla may get all the credit for finally dethroning Internet Explorer as the only dominant Web browser with its development of Firefox, the man behind the curtain continues to be Google, which provides the vast majority of the cash that keeps Mozilla going.