At a $100 billion valuation, Facebook would be worth about the same as McDonald’s Corp. and nearly half of Google.
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Tellabs cutting 530 jobs
Chicago Restaurants, Chicago Menus, Ratings, Reviews, Chicago Restaurants Guide
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vCita
vCita is a new way to interact with website visitors, acquire clients and provide services online. vCita encourages your online audience to approach you, ask for advice and schedule time to talk over video or phone.
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This site puts out a wordpress plugin (secure contact form) that uses the resources this outfit has to offer. Interesting business model.
LivingSocial Now At 5,000 Employees, Half The Size Of Groupon
A few days ago, at the DLD conference, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason revealed that his three-year-old daily deal company now has 10,000 employees, with about 70 percent overseas. What about LivingSocial, the No. 2 daily deal company? Tim O’Shaughnessy told me yesterday the company is now at 5,000 employees worldwide, with “just under half” in the U.S.
via LivingSocial Now At 5,000 Employees, Half The Size Of Groupon | TechCrunch.
Bringing A Startup Together: FounderDating Launches Matching Site, Expands To NY, Boston, LA
So far, FounderDating has been going well. ”The more we talk to people, the more demand we see” Alter says. “Incubators are sending applicants to it who need cofounders, saying things like ‘come back when you have one.’” A couple examples of successful matches include the team behind Y Combinator-backed referral platform Curebit, and inventory matchmaking site Sorced (whose cofounder, Elizabeth Knopf, has a longer post about the experience over on Women 2.0)
Megaupload’s demise: What happens to your files when a cloud service dies?
There have always been two major concerns about cloud services in general, and cloud storage (Dropbox, Megaupload, SkyDrive, iCloud, and so on). The first is privacy: When you upload data to a third party, there’s always the risk that they can look at the contents of your files. Some cloud providers securely encrypt data, but many don’t. The second issue is data security and integrity: Does the third party keep a tight ship against hackers? What happens if a hard drive fails? What protections have the cloud provider put in place to mitigate against natural disasters, bankruptcy, or being shut down by the Feds?
via Megaupload’s demise: What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? | ExtremeTech.
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AT&T joins OpenStack
AT&T became the first U.S. telecom service provider to join OpenStack, the organization that has developed an open-source cloud software stack.
AcerCloud Is Acer’s Answer To The Media Cloud
AcerCloud Is Acer’s Answer To The Media Cloud | TechCrunch.
AcerCloud makes it easy to take photos on a smartphone while on the go, and then view them on a main PC at home or in the office, without the delay and complication of manually transferring files. It also allows users to purchase a movie from an all-in-one PC, and then watch it on a tablet or smartphone on a train or airplane. As long as the main PC is in sleep (standby/hibernation) mode, Acer Always Connect technology can wake it up through Wi-Fi® so media can be retrieved via a mobile device. AcerCloud, meanwhile, intelligently uses local and cloud storage together so all data is always available. Other features of AcerCloud include: