Archive for the ‘Web Applications’ Category
April 13
Microsoft Corp. sent a follow-up letter to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to sit down and negotiate a deal. Earlier this year, Microsoft sent a Proposal on its takeover bid.
April 4
Google Sacking Jobs at DoubleClick
In a statement, the company said: “Since our acquisition of DoubleClick closed on March 11, we have been working to match and align DoubleClick employees in the U.S. with our organizational plan for the business. As with many mergers, this review has resulted in a reduction in headcount at the acquired company.”
“It is clear to us that we do not want to be in the search engine marketing business,” Tom Phillips, director of DoubleClick integration at Google, wrote on the company’s official blog. “At Google, maintaining objectivity in both search and advertising is paramount to our mission and core to the trust we ask from our users.”
March 24
Search engine Ask.com is putting a new strategy with a reduction of its work force by 8%, about 40 jobs. Ask will focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
“The company found that about 65 percent of its user base are women, with a high concentration of users in their late 30s in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast,” Ask’s CEO Jim Safka said.
Ask.com was formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California. When it started out, Ask positioned itself as a search engine that could spit out answers to requests that were posed as natural-language questions instead of being entered as a string of loosely related words.
March 1
WebOS – the remote virtual desktop
Web 2.0 and the sudden rise in popularity of hosted services over the past few years have, in a away, given rise to a new definition of what an operating system is. Thanks to application frameworks, integrated development environments (IDEs) and tools such as Ajax, Ruby on Rails, Javascript and Flash, developers have come out with what they call the next big thing in hosted services. Web Operating Systems or WEBOSes for short, Some insist that these applications don’t fall under the traditional sense of what an operating system is, as they don’t act as an intermediary between the hardware and software layers in a computer, and that they should be dubbed Web Apps instead.
A WebOS, as defined by most, is a virtual desktop that resides, where else, on the Internet. In other words, imagine interacting with your computer desktop, shortcuts, documents and everything else you see when using your computer, but through your browser window.
February 5
Yahoo! to Evaluate Proposal from Microsoft
Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, said that it has received an unsolicited Proposal from Microsoft to acquire the Company. The Company said that its Board of Directors will evaluate this proposal carefully and promptly in the context of Yahoo!’s strategic plans and pursue the best course of action to maximize long-term value for shareholders.
