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10 Jun, 2010

Google copying Bing’s background image

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Starting today, you’ll notice a change in the appareance of Google homepages. The company is experimenting to push to all his users a background Image to enrich a bit the user experience.
This feature will be turned on for all users for today and maybe some other hours/day, and them will be available for everyone who [...]

05 Jun, 2010

Social statuses into Yahoo Mail

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18 May, 2010

Buongiorno Q1 2010 Earnings

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Buongiorno announced on Friday the results for Q1 2010: consolitated revenues are down 11.5%, but good news comes from EBITDA (up 3%), and net profit (up 109% to 3.2 million)
The loss in revenues is due to the B2B division which is loosing 33% compared to Q1 2010. B2C is growing by 9.5%

As you can see, [...]

17 May, 2010

Groupon to buy Citydeal

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Groupon announced yesterday the acquisition of European local deals website Citydeal for a Sum around 100Mln $.

This is one of the quickest exits of the history of the web, since Citydeals was founded back in January 2010. It is going to be interesting see how the companies are going to integrate, with Groupon having 300 [...]

Massimo Ciociola, former Board member of the digital content company Dada (also quoted on the TechStar segment at Milans Borsa Italiana), is launching a new startup about Digital Music.
The website (http://www.musixmatch.com) is still being worked on and the company is hiring some developers (source Linkedin). The headquarter will be based in the city of [...]

11 May, 2010

Beautiful careers

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Are you beautiful? They say you have better opportunities to get a job and have a successful career.
From this concept a job board is getting a lot of exposure (and hate messages probably)

http://beautifuljobseekers.com

Curious idea! We’ll see if ithey are goint to get also some business out of it…

08 May, 2010

Chatroulette: rise and fall

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Internet trendy random video-chat has lost almost 2/3 of his traffic in the last 2 months according to Alexa.
Funny enough that appartently the website is linked only by 450 websites. Probably most of the traffic comes from word of mouth or social media discussions

A cool viral video made by Low cost company Germanwings on board of an Easyjet flight!

20 Apr, 2010

Someone can call it advertising

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I call it selling out…
For those who doesnt know, repubblica is the 2nd most famous online newspaper in Italy , and the first one for Internet Traffic.

The chart show the prices of 5 of the main Hi-tech/Web companies during the last few years and their increase/decrease.
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