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| YouTube founders buy up Delicious |
| 2011-04-30 00:33:00 |
The founders of video-sharing site YouTube have bought bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen will use Delicious as a key part of their next net venture called Avos. The startup is thought to be based around tools that help people get to grips with the vast amount of information generated by web sites and services. How much the pair paid to acquire Delicious has not been revealed. Data deluge Delicious describes itself as a social bookmarking system in which members flag and tag sites, articles and media they find interesting.
These can then be shared with other Delicious users. Its name derives from its desire to find the "tastiest" bookmarks on the web. Delicious was acquired in 2005 by Yahoo and in late 2010 the web giant decided to sell it off or close it down if no buyer came forward. Now Mr Hurley and Mr Chen have acquired Delicious to form part of the technology underpinning their new firm Avos. Details about Avos and what it will do are s...
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| Nokia akan PHK 7000 karyawan |
| 2011-04-29 01:59:00 |
Mobile phone manufacture Nokia has announced it will shed 7,000 jobs from next year as part of a plan to
refocus the company on smartphones.
The firm said 4,000 jobs worldwide would be cut - including a total of
700 jobs from Nokia's UK sites.
Nokia will also transfer a further
3,000 employees to outsourcing
and consultancy group Accenture, which will take over Nokia's Symbian software.
The Finnish firm is moving from Symbian to Microsoft's
smartphone technology.
The firm recently confirmed the deal with Microsoft last week to jointly develop smartphone technology, which will cut costs by about 1bn euros a year.
Under the terms of that deal, Nokia agreed to start using the
Microsoft's operating system on
its smartphones instead of its own
Symbian platform.
"This is about keeping focus within
Nokia on Windows Phone. It helps
to get rid of any doubts on where
this company is going," said
Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at
Gartner.
Nokia's response to the smartphone thre...
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