Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a press conference at Facebook’s headquarters announced that facebook is releasing new Group Chat feature and it will be rolled out to users beginning Wednesday. Now Facebook has officially hit 750 million users.
Free Download Manager (FDM) 3.8 beta 2 build 1051 is now available for download and testing. Free Download Manager is a free download accelerator and manager and it is is 100% open-source software distributed under GPL license. What’s new in this version?
A few bugs when creating a new torrent.
Possible crash when adding a new download.
UI bug in download’s details window.
General bug fixes.
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Twitter has acquired the social analytics company backtype.From backtype blog “Joining Twitter gives us the opportunity to bring insight to tens of millions of publishers around the world that are using Twitter to communicate and connect with their audience. We’re also excited to bring our technology (especially Storm) to Twitter where it can have a big impact across the company.”
The company also says that BackTweets will now be offered for free, but we will not be accepting new signups. The API will be discontinued.
Godaddy has been sold to private equity firms KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures for a (companies declined to provide a purchase price) $2.25 billion(Sources). From 2009 to 2010 GoDaddy’s sales grew by 25% to $947 million, and the company projects its figure for 2011 to be $1.1 billion.
Wordpress 3.1.4 is now available for download. wordpress 3.1.4 is a security and maintenance update. This release(wordpress 3.1.4) covers some security fixes and hardening measures. It also fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user to gain further access to the wordpress website.
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MySpace has been sold to Specific Media for a $35 million.Specific Media is a digital media company driving viewership for content owners, engagement for brands and relevance for consumers and founded in 1999 by brothers Tim, Chris and Russell Vanderhook .In 2005, News Corporation bought MySpace for $580 million from its original owner.
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Thunderbird is a free and open-source email client from Mozilla for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Thunderbird 5.0 is now available for download. What’s new in this version of thunderbird email client.?
This version of thunderbird using the new Mozilla Gecko 5 engine and improved speed by faster to start up and use. Now it supports the new Add-ons Manager. using this you can add your favorite addons on your email client.
Opera Software released the new Opera 11.50. Some of its new features are dynamic new tab page,Password synchronization,streamlined and lightweight,faster CSS and SVG rendering,Session History and Navigation, the W3C File API, classlist and the <time> element. Opera users can now install Speed Dial extensions.
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Google has launched a new service called What Do You Love from google. It offers search results from 22 different Google services like Google Trends, YouTube,Translate,Books,Maps,image search and gmail.It looks like similar to Google’s homepage.
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Nick Radicevic announced on Google’s AdSense blog “starting today, +1’s will start appearing on Google search pages globally with sites like google.co.uk, google.de, google.jp and google.fr then expanding quickly to most other Google search sites soon after.”
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