Internet & E-commerce
Investor group to acquire majority stake in Skype
Skype Technologies and an investor group led by Silver Lake have signed a definitive agreement in which the investor group will purchase a 65 per cent interest in Skype Technologies from eBay for approximately $1.9bn in cash, in a transaction valuing Skype Technologies at $2.75 bn. eBay will retain the remaining 35 per cent equity [...]
Orange to acquire Unanimis
The Orange France Telecom Group has acquired 100 per cent of Unanimis, an exclusive digital advertising network in the UK. Unanimis has exclusive online advertising relationships with key website brands such as the AA, Ticketmaster, ASOS, Gumtree and Shopping.com. Orange believes together, Orange and Unanimis will have particular strength in the area of online advertising. [...]
MySpace to acquire iLike
MySpace has announced an agreement to acquire iLike, a social music discovery service. Brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi founded iLike in 2006. The entire iLike team will stay intact including, CEO Ali Partovi, President Hadi Partovi and CTO Nat Brown. MySpace noted that all three are seasoned entrepreneurs who havrve held executive positions at both [...]
Malaysia Airlines selects Akamai solution
Malaysia Airlines has selected Akamai to power its main website, Malaysiaairlines.com, and the airline’s booking engine to provide customers with a better website experience. Akamai informed its Web Application Accelerator solution is aimed at enabling Malaysia Airlines to improve its website performance and increase online bookings. The Web Application Accelerator solution provides customers with a [...]
Broadband services still a top spending priority: study
Consumers are unwilling to part with their broadband services at home even in the midst of the economic downturn, preferring to cut spending on things like dining out and leisure travel, according to a series of recent studies sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent. These findings were uncovered as part of a global study exploring the impact of [...]
Friendster launches Friendster Loop calling card
Friendster has announced the launch of The Friendster Loop, a pre-paid calling card with low, competitive rates, suitable for making international calls to over 220 countries. The card is available immediately for use by anyone, including Friendster’s active users and internet users around the globe. Users can register for The Friendster Loop at Friendsterloop.com. The [...]
Orange inks mobile and internet deal with Wikimedia
Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation have announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership designed to mutually benefit each organisation’s users by extending the way people can access free knowledge. Orange, the European telco player, will initially provide customers in France, the UK, Spain and Poland with access to co-branded content from the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation [...]
Airtel offers 1 cent/min call rates from US to India
Bharti Airtel, an integrated telecom services provider headquartered in India, has launched a calling rate of 1 cent a minute on its online calling card service Airtelcallhome.com. The company believes this will enable NRIs (Non-resident Indians) in the US to call friends and family back in India at competitive rates in the market. Airtel has [...]
Now, Nokia Messaging available with Windows Live Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail, a web-based e-mail solution, is now available on Nokia Messaging, the service that enables people to access their personal e-mail on their Nokia devices. In May, Nokia Messaging will also be supported by the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia’s first mass-market touchscreen device. Nokia Messaging is currently free to download and set-up, and [...]
Microsoft announces availability of IE 8
Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8, its new Web browser. The company claims the Internet Explorer 8 is easy to use, and offers security features in direct response to people’s concerns about online safety. Internet Explorer 8 will be available for download in 25 languages, including Arabic, Chinese (Traditional, Simplified and [...]
