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Amazon tests waters in India

US online retail giant Amazon has made its first foray into India with launch of a shopping website, Junglee.com, as it tests the waters for a possible full entry into the nation's e-commerce market. ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online news portals get credibility boost from trusted sources

People who read news on the web tend to trust the gate even if there is no gatekeeper, according to Penn State researchers.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Web portal Sina posts $336 million quarterly loss

(AP) -- Sina Corp., a popular Chinese web portal operator, sank to a loss in the latest quarter due to writedowns on investments in two online businesses but revenues and microblog traffic were up.

Technology / Business

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Galaxy DNA-analysis software is now available 'in the cloud'

Galaxy -- an open-source, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical and genetic research -- is now available as a "cloud computing" resource. A team of researchers including Anton Nekrutenko, an associate ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Checking criminal records via phone proves popular

Matthew Haindfield's little app is quite revealing. A few minutes with Docket in Your Pocket brought me up to date with the legal scrapes of various acquaintances and left my own sordid record of traffic offenses staring ...

Technology / Software

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pope may go online to launch Vatican news portal

(AP) -- The Vatican, whose communications problems are no secret, is taking a leap into the world of new media with the launch next week of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Vatican to launch Internet news portal next week

(AP) -- The Vatican is taking a leap into the world of new media next week with the launch of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put online with a papal click.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

China web giant Tencent buys into film maker

Chinese Internet giant Tencent has bought a 4.6 percent stake in mainland film and TV producer Huayi Brothers Media to look at possible ways to combine film and new media, the firms said Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created May 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Facebook to launch China site with Baidu: report

Facebook has signed an agreement with Chinese search engine giant Baidu to set up a new social networking site in China, a leading web portal reported Monday.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Russia's top portal to list on NASDAQ: report

Russia's top Internet portal Yandex intends to raise up to $1 billion (740 million euros) through an initial public offering on New York's NASDAQ stock exchange, the Vedomosti business daily reported Monday.

Technology / Business

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Father of Great Firewall forced to remove microblog

The man widely seen as the architect of China's vast Internet censorship system known as the "Great Firewall" has had to take down his microblog after a storm of criticism by web users.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

AOL acquires Web video company 5min Media

AOL, the once high-flying Internet portal which is seeking to make a comeback as a content company, announced Tuesday it has acquired Web video syndication firm 5min Media.

Technology / Business

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China's Tencent buys Google-backed social networking firm

Mainland Internet company Tencent Holdings has bought Google-backed Chinese social networking firm Comsenz for more than 60 million dollars, the companies and a media report said.

Technology / Business

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

States ride broadband wave

Colorado is one of a number of states where state and local governments are prohibited by law from directly providing broadband service, for example, free municipal wireless connections. So a recommendation in the Federal ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study finds beta blockers alone more effective for first variceal bleeding

A controlled trial conducted by researchers at the E-DA Hospital in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, suggests that a combination of band ligation and nadolol may not be the most effective prophylaxis for first variceal bleeding resulting ...

Medicine & Health / Research

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