Mozilla sics sea monster on SunSpider and Google V8
Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:00 Written by External Post Wednesday, 15 September 2010 08:00
Mozilla has unveiled a new browser benchmark, claiming that – more so than the likes of SunSpider and Google’s V8 – it focuses on “realistic” workloads and “forward looking” applications. The open sourcers call their new benchmark Kraken, which
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Monster swallows HotJobs, inks deal with Yahoo
Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 07:20 Written by External Post Tuesday, 24 August 2010 07:20
Monster Worldwide has completed its acquisition of Yahoo’s HotJobs for $225 million in cash and has sealeda three-year deal as Yahoo’s exclusive provider of job and career content, the companies said Tuesday. Although Monster already claims the title as
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Amazon buys wacky retailer
Last Updated on Thursday, 1 July 2010 11:40 Written by External Post Thursday, 1 July 2010 11:40
Etail monster Amazon has bought Woot.com – the community and wacky one-a-day gadget website. In the words of its own blog: ‘Woot to be acquired by Amazon, then left to amuse ourselves.’ The company will operate as an independent subsidiary of Amazon and
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Twitter promises to stay up for World Cup
Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:40
Twitter admits it has had its worst month since last October for downtime but promises it will do its best to stay up and running for World Cup games. The micro-blog monster explained [1] that tweaking its system to fix problems created by a planned
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Breakfast briefing: Facebook surges onwards as Apple watches iPad orders flood in
Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:40
Just a few weeks ago we were talking about how Facebook had eclipsed Yahoo as America’s second-largest website – now, according to Hitwise, it is now bigger than Google. Will the social networking monster ever stop growing? Some interesting data on early
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Monster snaps up Yahoo’s HotJobs
Last Updated on Thursday, 4 February 2010 12:30 Written by External Post Thursday, 4 February 2010 12:30
Yahoo has shed another property deemed expendable by chief executive Carol Bartz, selling HotJobs to Monster for $225m. Part of the deal includes a provision that installs Monster as the exclusive provider of job ads on Yahoo’s home page for three years
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Monster grabs Yahoo! jobs
Last Updated on Thursday, 4 February 2010 10:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 4 February 2010 10:00
Giant jobs site Monster.com is about to get bigger – it has bought Yahoo!’s HotJobs. In return Yahoo! gets $225m and a three year traffic deal which will see Monster supply it with job adverts for its US and Canadian sites. The deal also gives Monster an
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Monster buys Yahoo’s HotJobs for $225M
Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 February 2010 11:30 Written by External Post Wednesday, 3 February 2010 11:30
Monster will acquire Yahoo HotJobs for $225 million, along with the rights to list job ads on Yahoo’s home page. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Yahoo has shed another property deemed expendable by CEO Carol Bartz, selling HotJobs to Monster for
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