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Microsoft seals Facebook deal with US$240m stake

It's official: Microsoft will take a US$240 million equity stake in Facebook during its next round of financing, valuing the company at a whopping US$15 billion. Read more »

Google Android's new battleground: Developers

Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices. Read more »

Dreamforce: Benioff preaches cloud computing gospel, Facebook

After a decade as the chief evangelist in the wilderness of software as a service, which has morphed into cloud computing, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff is having a more challenging time coming up with groundbreaking industry disruptions. Read more »

Developers want Ballmer to show money

Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers. Read more »

No Yahoo talks; Windows 7 on track

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday in the US that its on-again, off-again talks with Yahoo were firmly in the "off-again" phase. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Sun: JavaFX can take on Flash

This week at Sun's JavaOne conference,the company introduced JavaFX, a rich Internet application environment set to compete with Adobe Systems' AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight. Read more »

Google's OpenSocial opens new online battle

Google have taken the online social networking battle to a new level with the announcement of a new set of APIs that can be used to create applications on any site that wishes to participate. Read more »

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50 significant moments from internet history

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Facebook's portal for the masses

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »

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  • Staff A first look at Windows 7 beta

    In this week's Roundup we show you a preview of Windows 7 beta, cover news from the annual Macworld and more. Read more »

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  • Staff Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?

    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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