April 14, 2008 in News
AllYouCanUpload, launched in May 2006 by CNET has now joined the deadpool. The registration-free image hosting site with few restrictions, was praised for shedding the bandwidth limits seen on other photo sites like Photobucket and ImageShack.
We haven’t been provided with a reason for the site being taken down but, at least the images that have been [...]
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April 13, 2008 in News
YouTorrent which launched in January has grown to a remarkable 10 million uniques per month mainly because, it has a decent interface, an ad-less design and its ability to search most of the bigger BitTorrent sites.
However, the owners have switched YouTorrent’s meta-search to sites that only list legal torrents which could mean that YouTorrent’s traffic could completely [...]
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April 10, 2008 in News
AdBrite“the internet’s ad marketplace” has today launched a new service called OTX. The new service allows third party ad-targeting companies compete to serve the most relevant ads on publisher’s sites.
The third party targeting companies access Adbrite’s advertisement system via a live application programming interface and bid between themselves for publishers, currently Personifi and Lucid Media will be the only companies [...]
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April 10, 2008 in News
FilesX, a data recovery startup which makes restoration software that complements other storage systems like tape drives has been acquired by IBM for a reported $85 million dollars according to our source but we believe the figure could be anywhere between $70 and $90 million.
FilesX which originally started in Israel in 2000 is now based in Newton, [...]
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April 10, 2008 in News
In attempt to block Microsoft’s takeover of Yahoo which is now seeming inevitable since News Corp are looking to team up with Microsoft, Yahoo has decided to run a two-week-long trial of Google’s AdSense for Search (here). However, Yahoo are eager to point out that the trial will not necessarily blossom into a long-term relationship with [...]
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