Tonight, it’s almost certain that bars around Facebook’s new headquarters in Stanford Research Park will be busy. Tomorrow, the offices of Facebook’s employees may be full of new toys and gadgets. It seems that Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies wants to buy $100 million of common stock from employees.
Russian Authorities Halt Google Acquisition
Like a hockey player who wasn’t expecting a body check, Google’s gotten an unpleasant surprise in the antitrust department. Even as the company was focused on its deal with Yahoo, Russian authorities have stopped its acquisition of Begun.
Russian President Wants Cyrillic Internet Domain
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia needs to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script in an effort to promote Russian as an international language.The Kremlin is worried that Russian, once the main language in the Soviet Union is being used less because of local languages and the influence of English.Medvedev said that 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that a Cyrillic domain name would play an important role in raising the importance of Russian as a language.
Google Losing Race For Russian Crown
Google may be king, but it’s definitely not czar. The dominant U.S. search engine is only the eighth biggest “Internet brand” in Russia, and it’s losing the competition by a very large margin.
Russian Jams Way To Google Code Win
The Global Code Jam sponsored by Google culminated in New York with a championship round of coding at the search advertising company’s recently-opened offices in the Big Apple.
Did Anti-Spam Gang Kill Russian Spammer?
Certain anti-spam parties have made threats in the past against some of the world’s more notorious spammers.