Maria Deutscher
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Freelancer.com Expands, Outsourcing on the Rise
Outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com announced it has acquired another domain name, Freelancer.de, one of Germany’s top freelancing marketplaces. The sum of the acquisition was not disclosed, but this deal presents yet another landmark in Freelancer.com’s accelerating global expansion. “We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Freelancer.de, one of the top German freelancing sites,” said Matt ...
Facebook and Groupon: Our Social Media Bubble?
Every few years we see the media grow big-eyed at the signs of a bubble–a housing bubble, an investor bubble, or in this case, a social media bubble. And this isn’t the first time a social media bubble has taken over the line, with tech eras seeming to come and go with every buzz word. ...
Trapster Hacked, Compromises Millions of Users
Trapster, a crowdsourcing-based online service which warns iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Garmin and TomTom GPS owners of police speed traps, announced yesterday millions of e-mail addresses and passwords may have been compromised. Trapster suffered two security breaches; one after which it released a warning to users and a second, to which it responded saying it’s “not ...
Google Can’t Acquire, Launches Groupon Competitor
After Groupon rejected Google’s $6 billion bid, the search giant is taking a new approach to get into the discounts market. A “confidential fact sheet” from Google sent to Mashable revealed some information about Google Offers, an email-subscription based buy-in discount service in the making. “According to its sources, businesses will get 80 percent of revenue ...
Dell Announces VMware plug-in, Enhances Embedded Systems Management
Dell announced some enhancements to its systems management portfolio, including the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter. The plug-in follows after an integration of Dell’s hardware management capabilities into Microsoft’s System Center, and is reportedly capable of reducing time spent on systems provision to around 5 minutes a week. “And so Dell has done the ...
HP Replaces 4 Board Members, Investigating Mark Hurd
Today Hewlett Packard announced it is replacing 4 board members and adding an additional director to the board. Joel Hyatt, John Joyce, Robert Ryan and Lucille Salhany departure, and there to replace them are Shumeet Banerji, Gary Reiner Patricia Russo, Dominique Senequier and Meg Whitman. All 5 new directors will stand for re-election at HP’s ...
Tweets Take to Techmeme Headlines, Discussions
Dubbed one of the “100 essential websites …” by The Guardian, and one of NYT technology editor David F. Gallagher’s sites, Techmeme will now use noteworthy tweets of various sorts as full headlines of their own, but mostly as points of ‘Discussion.’ “First is the news-breaking variety, which directly offer new factual information… The second ...
Google Up 26% in Q4 2010: Earnings Report
Today Google released its Q4 earnings results, which report $8.44 billion in revenues – a 26% increase compared to the Q4, 2009. “Revenues – Google reported revenues of $8.44 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, representing a 26% increase over fourth quarter 2009 revenues of $6.67 billion. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, ...
Qualcomm Invests in ChaCha, Company Raises $3M
The Indianapolis-based ChaCha Search real time answers service had closed a $3 million financing round to support the expansion of its mobile service. This funding is an extension of an earlier October round which raised $20 million, and out of the $3 million ChaCha raised in the latest round Qualcomm Ventures invested $900,000. “The company ...
Amazon Acquires European Netflix LOVEFiLM
Amazon today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire the remaining shares it doesn’t yet own in LOVEFiLM International Limited for an undisclosed sum. LOVEFiLM is nicknamed the Netflix of Europe with 1.4 million members across the U.K., Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Germany. The U.K.-based company enables users to stream films to PCs, Internet ...