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Business ethics deserve much more attention than they usually receive in operating a company.
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Google Buys Swiss Mapping Company
Google continues its pattern of omnigooglization in Europe by acquiring the Internet, mapping and data processing units of Switzerland-based Endoxon, for an undisclosed sum.
Facebook’s New Price: $8 Billion?
Well, it is called Facebook, a name that invites a certain amount of narcissism, or at least some inflated self-worth. Yahoo probably didn't dream that an offer as high as $1.62 billion would be rejected. But Yahoo probably didn't expect to hear the metallic hubris pinging out a tune of $8 billion, either.
AdSense Nixes Pics
A brief post on the Google AdSense blog today "clarified" the ad and image placement policy; basically, it's best to keep unrelated Google ad units and images far, far apart.
Skype Founders To Launch Internet TV
The founders of Skype Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrm are close to launching their new Internet TV site, which is currently under the working name The Venice Project. Last year the pair sold their communications business to Ebay for $2.6 billion.
Cloaking Is Bad… Unless It’s Good
The concept of page cloaking has come under fire; again, because the idea is being used by a number of legitimate sites in order to protect or hide their content from users and/or search engine bots. The fact that these sites do not get punished for using cloaking techniques has become a sore spot with some bloggers.
