Comcast to acquire contact manager Plaxo

May 15, 2008 By DEBORAH YAO, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Comcast Corp. is buying contact management company Plaxo Inc. and plans to incorporate into all its offerings features intended to help people synchronize their address books and connect socially online.



Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:


Comcast to debut cable shows online by year's end

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comcast, Sony to open joint retail store

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comcast online video trial grows to 23 networks

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Joost seeks cable TV operator as buyer

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DirecTV, TBS, TNT to put shows online

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


print this article email this article download pdf blog this article bookmark this article     Stumble it Digg this share on Facebook retweet share on Reddit add to delicious
Rate this story - not rated yet


May 15, 2008 all stories

Comments: 0

not rated yet
  • Stumble this up

  • Digg this

  • share this



  • hide
  • Relevant PhysicsForums posts

Other News

Google Go

Google Go gets going (w/ Video)

Technology / Software

created 3 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution.


New 'finFETS' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

New 'finFETs' promising for smaller transistors, more powerful chips

Technology / Semiconductors

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers ...


New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

created 17 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...


The New York Times headquarters in New York City

New York Times publishes 'crowd-funded' article

Technology / Internet

created 5 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance ...


Software for solving life-threatening medical puzzles

Software for solving life-threatening medical puzzles

Technology / Software

created 1hour ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New software is under development that doctors hope will help them identify brain tumours in children that will grow aggressively.