Google Needs A Couple Months to Heal the World

Back in September, Google made an announcement that seemed to reflect it's policy of not doing evil quite well. As a celebration of Google's ten-year anniversary, the company announced "Project 10100" or "10 to the 100th," which is a contest where the prize is you get to help people all over the world.

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Microsoft Delays Construction Of Iowa Data Center

If you want to compare servers to Hallmark products, Microsoft is no longer the little old lady who buys a shopping cart full of Christmas cards on December 26th.  Instead, the company has decided to send cards to fewer people and save its money for 11 months.  Or, to drop the metaphor, you might just say that Microsoft's delayed the construction of a data center.

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Report: Twitter Secures $250 Million Valuation

There was some excitement generated this weekend when rumor spread about Twitter nailing down a third round of venture capitalist funding, effectively raising its value to as much as $250 million.

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Job Search Web Sites See Big Growth

Job search was the fastest growing online category in the U.S. in 2008, according to comScore.The job search category saw the number of visitors grow 51 percent to 18.8 million visitors. The final months of the year usually see a slow down in job searching activity because of the holidays, but were instead some of the most heavily trafficked months of 2008.

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Don’t Let YouTube Comments Come Back to Haunt You

YouTube has just initiated a feature that allows users who leave comments on videos to delete those comments. Now when you put your foot in your mouth, you can take it back out. "Whether you misspelled 'pwned', back in the day when you were just a n00b to the internets, or you simply said something you wish you could take back - now you can…

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