Understanding the increasing trend of GeoTagging the microblogging star Twitter has acquired the Mixer Labs, company behind GeoAPI services
On Wednesday Twitter announced the acquisition on their blog. Twitter is making various progresses in the geotagging field and this acquisition comes in line with their step to preview expanded location support for developers in August [...]
Dec
24
2009
24
2009
Twitter seeks to dominate geoloc services with Mixer Labs acquisition
Dec
19
2009
19
2009
4 reasons why Google would buy Yelp
The news about Google being engaged in talks to buy website providing reviews for Local business, Yelp is getting hot.
There is no official announcement from either Google or Yelp about the deal but various sources have confirmed information about the ongoing negotiation to New York Times. Market analysts view the deal as Google’s intention to [...]
Dec
18
2009
18
2009
Google in talks to takeover Yelp for strengthening local business
The search giant Google is in talks with Yelp, a review site for local business.
There are no details when the deal would be finalized but the news of the ongoing negotiation was first broke out by TechCrunch and later on confirmed by New York Times citing anonymous sources.
Yelp was founded in 2004 with an [...]
Dec
5
2009
5
2009
Apple acquires online music streamer LaLa
Apple Inc. has acquired online music company Lala Media Inc but none of the plans behind this acquisition are publicized.
Lala located in Palo Alto, California, works to move music and entertainment to the Web for hundreds of millions of people. Lala provides users with an online music collection of their own favorite songs which can [...]
Dec
4
2009
4
2009
Google takes over EtherPad to nurture its Wave
Google acquires AppJet to give better real time collaboration to its Google Wave service. The technologies and creativity of AppJet’s EtherPad would now be added to Google for polishing its Google Wave.
AppJet build Etherpad , a powerful real-time collaboration similar to the Google Docs text editor. With Etherpad users can collaborate in true real-time, with [...]