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AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post For $315 Million

The Huffington Post, a popular news-aggregator which has more than 25 millions of monthly visitors will be acquired by AOL company this year.
AOL will buy The Huffington Post for $315 million from its founder Arianna Huffington.
Arianna will be editor-in-chief of the new Huffington Post Media Network whcih will also include popular tech blogs Engadget and [...]

Jules Verne Logo Exposes Creativity of Designers From Google

These days it is hard to be creative or to keep your creativity for a longer time. Google is one of rare large companies who still manages to make creative things and that is probably the onliest reason they’re still so high and strong.

When we talk about Google’s creativity, we have to mention its logo [...]

The Entertaining Buckyball Google Logo

I have just browsed Google and noticed their new creative logo. Today it is an interactive animation of the second letter “o” of the Google logo.
When you click on it the search points to term “buckyball”.
You can spin the buckyball by overlaying it with your mouse pointer.
Buckyballs are entertaining toys for kids and adults. They’re [...]

Secondary Market: Facebook Worth Estimated at $33,7 Billion

Most of us still remembers the time when Youtube was purchased by Google for 1,65 billion dollars. At the time, this was incredible price to be paid for one website but, obviously, times are changing.
Today Mashable has brought a story about Secondary market’s valuation of Facebook. Secondary market has estimated that the current value of [...]

Facebook.com is The Most Visited Website After Google.com

Google’s DoubleClick Ad Planner has released data about the most-visited web sites for last month. Facebook is the number one on statistics with 540 million of unique visitors and 570 billion of pageviews.
Facebook now has about 35% share of all of the web traffic.
The list doesn’t provide the data about the Google.com and Youtube.com but [...]

Godaddy.com vs Domain.com - Where to buy a domain name?

I often buy domains and I could say that I am little bit addicted in that manner. I have done some efforts to cure such “addiction” but I still have a plenty of domain names and when it comes to paying for them I need to choose best company where to do that.
There are a [...]

Google reached search deal with Twitter

Google announced yesterday that they made a search deal with Twitter, almost at the same time when Microsoft confirmed that they got similar deal for it’s search engine Bing.
From now, Google will implement tweets from Twitter in their search results.
“We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of [...]