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Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal
After much speculation over whether Mozilla, the non-profit foundation, and Google, the search and advertising company, would renew their default search provision deal, Mozilla pay just under $300 million per year to be the default choice in Mozil…
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EBay adds invoice payments to PayPal with BillSafe acquisition ??? Tech News and Analysis
via gigaom.com “BillSafe allows customers to purchase a product immediately and pay for it by invoice later. This gives merchants and consumers another way to pay using PayPal. BillSafe is already used by 15 million account holders in Germany, whe…
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Facing Boycott, GoDaddy Rescinds SOPA Support
Yesterday, it was revealed GoDaddy actively supported SOPA – to the point of arrogance and dedain towards those opposing the US censorship law. As a result, a boycott was instated on reddit, which was picked up all over the web. Today, the company…
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Bitcoin’s comeback: should Western Union be afraid?
via arstechnica.com ” Bitcoin’s value as a way to move and store wealth depends on the value of Bitcoins being relatively stable against conventional currencies. And the continued value of Bitcoins depends on people finding nonspeculative uses for…
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Visualizing Individual CPU Utilization of a Large Scale Data Center – information aesthetics
via infosthetics.com “Server performance and system administration expert Brendan Gregg has posted a critical overview of some very interesting approaches to visualize device utilization, or the working efficiency of about 5,312 virtual CPUs (spre…
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MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 19 Dec 2011 : Front Page
First Qt application accepted to Apple’s App StoreQt was always intended as a cross-platform development framework. Nokia took it to Symbian, Maemo, MeeGo and Harmattan. Open source Necessitas took it to Android. Now, Qt4iOS on Twitter says THE qu…