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PayPerPost acquires Performancing.com

PayPerPost has signed a LOI to acquire Performancing LLC, a popular internet community for bloggers. With the acquisition of the new company the PayPerPost will have the advantage of adding 28000 professionals already signedup with Performancing. For a detailed report click here.

India: Telecom manufacturing to attract $2billion

"Times" top 50 sites in 2006

India: BSNL boosting broadband services

The Indian government owned telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited(BSNL)is investing close to Rs.2000 Crores in the coming year on the broadband infrastructure both in rural and urban terrain of the country. Going aggressive in providing telephone and broadband services, the company has announced to increse the broadband speed to 2 mbps. Currently the company is offering broadband at 256 kbps.

The company has a broadband customer base of about 2 million.

340 Indian sites hacked!

About 340 Indian websites were defaced during the month of November and the most defaced websites by the hackers fall under the .com domain says report published by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT-In).

In November 73% phishing, 24% unauthorised scanning and 3% incidents related to virus/worm under the malicious code category were reported the report adds.

For more detailed report click here.

Digg.com in acquisition talks

Rumours are agog that Digg.com is in serious talks with a number of companies over its acquisition. The companies that are vying for the acquisition include News Corp, Google, Microsoft etc., News Corp seems to be the frontrunner in the race to acquire Digg.com.

It is believed that the companys upset price is about $150 Million.

Four Soft acquires Danish firm

Four Soft, a Hyderabad(India) based transport and logistics software technology company has acquired Transaxiom Holding, a Danish company for about $10 million in a cash cum stock deal.
Transaxiom is also a transportation and logistic software solution provider.

The present deal is expected to expand the presence of Four Soft in Australia, New Zealand and other Scandinavian countries.

The company also plans to start a BPO centre for the logistics sector with an investment of $ 1 million in Hyderabad towards the beginning of the second quarter in the coming year. The BPO centre is going to be joint venture project with an undisclosed Japanese firm.

Top 10 searches on Google.com in 2006

Google.com has released the top ten searches for the year 2006.
And the top terms that people typed into Google to search are:
1. bebo
2. myspace
3. world cup
4. metacafe
5. radioblog
6. wikipedia
7. video
8. rebelde
9. mininova
10. wiki

Google to launch mobile phone!

Google is working in association with Orange, the mobile phone operator to launch the Google Mobile Phone which would have many web facilities in it, reports The Observer published from London.
The association between the internet and the telecom giant would in all probability bring the internet usage on the mobile phone as easy as it can be accessed on the laptops and desktops.

Google would be providing the software to the mobile phones it is learnt.
The two giants logos would be appearing on the to be launched mobile phones adds the report.
The contemplated services to be offered on the phone include the location based search, to include the tailor made information like the local restaurants, movies, maps, images from Google Earth.
The phone may be available for sale during 2008 the report adds.

Voice email launched

NowPos a voice mail service developed by NowPos Online Services, Hyderabad, India was launched recently.

The company claims that it is the first of its kind in voice mail service in the world

The technology enables the users to record and send the voice messages similar to the emails.

The brain behind the free voice mail service is Ayyappa Nagubandi who designates himself as the Leader of the company.

The company is contemplating to provide media solutions in the KPO area also.

Recently appearing in a TV interview Ayyappa proudly reveals that the user base of the company has already reached 3 lakh customers and the ambitious youngster adds that he would like to see his company move into the Forbes 500 list.

Ambitious Ayyappa....wish you good luck!

Google Earth adds Wikipedia content

Google Earth has added user descriptions and photos from Wikipedia.
Using this facility the surfers can go to any point on the globe and see what people have written, photographed or posted.
So why wait? Go surfing and watch out what Google has added and see how fascinating world is!

"Pixelotto" new venture from Million dollar homepage wizard

The Milliondollarhomepage wonderboy Alex Tew who made a million dollars with his innovative idea has come back again with a new venture.
His new venture is named "pixelotto".
This time the pixels are sold at the rate of $2 per pixel.
In his new venture the wonderboy is offering a chance to win $1,000,000 just for clicking the ads.

Wish you all the best Alex Tew!

Motorola funding MobileComplete

Mobile Complete that provides mobile application services announced the second round of funding by Motorola Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Motorola Inc., The quantum of financial deal was not disclosed by the company. Innovacom VC the earlier investor also participated in the round announced the company.
Mobile Complete would utilize the funds to expand its Deviceanywhere.com to more global locations

Google funding Chinese Thunder?

It is a widely held rumor that Google is investing nearly $ 100 Million in Xunlei a P2P a Chiense file sharing network operator in association with another Shanghai based venture capital firm called Ceyuan.
Till date there have been 75 million software downloads approximately from Xunlei says a report.
Literally translated into English, Xunlei means thunder.
The company was started by two Chinese entrepreuners who earlier worked in the Silicon valley and moved back to Chine.
To settle the rumor mill Google is yet to make an official announcement on the investment plan.

Top internet deals.....

Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft for a whopping 400 Million US dollars from Sabir Bhatia in the year 1998. Hotmail is a free mail service launched by Sabir Bhatia.


Interactive Search Holdings was acquired by Ask Jeeves for an estimated 343 Million US dollars in the year 2004.

To be continued....