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MySQL founder warns of 'fatal' bugs in version 5.1
News Sun Microsystems releases version 5.1 of the open source database, but Michael Widenius says a number of "fatal" bugs in the new features are yet to be fixed.
Tags: Databases, Security, Database, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, software, founder, blog, Security
Wikipedia campaign raises over US$6.2M
News Fund raising drive by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has led to over 125,000 people making donations to the online community-generated encyclopaedia.
Tags: Web sites, Internet, Internet advertising, Open-source Software, Wikipedia, Advertisement, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Server, software
Bringing online marketing to life
News Dream Axis founder, Winne Soh, talks about the marketing green field of virtual spaces and her hopes for growing Singapore's 3D talent.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Digital media, Training, Singapore, 3D, Digital media, career, marketing, founder, Second Life
Ancestry.com hopes to stand test of time
News Analysts wonder if buying into the latest dot-com IPO makes sense for investors.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business plans, Facebook, Social Networking, Family Tree, Paul Allen, Business plans, Ancestry.com, Amazon.com Inc., Business Strategies & Functions
Google co-founder, wife give US$500K to Creative Commons
News Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki donate half a million to copyright reform group, to help build out its science initiative.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Creative Commons, Sergey Brin, co-founder, financial, founder, blog
Facebook's hiring like crazy again
News Company hopes to be 50 percent bigger in terms of employees by the end of 2009, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says in an interview with Bloomberg.
Tags: Web 2.0, Bloomberg L.P., Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, CEO, founder, hiring, Web 2.0
Bing strikes licensing deal with Wolfram Alpha
News Microsoft's search engine has reached some sort of deal with Wolfram Alpha to display Wolfram content in Bing search results, although details are still unclear.
Tags: Web browsers, Business applications, Search, Web services, Branding, Wolfram Research, stock price, TechCrunch, founder, licensing deal
eBay jettisons Skype for US$2.8B
News E-commerce giant eBay announces it is selling Skype unit for US$2.75 billion to an investor group that includes Marc Andreessen's new venture.
Tags: E-business, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., IP Telephony, Marc Andreessen, co-founder, CEO, founder
Unnecessary distraction from country's e-polls
Blogs If not for the weird story that President Arroyo underwent a breast implant operation in a local hospital, I'm pretty su...
Here come the 'Twitter, we did it first' lawsuits
News Service that makes emergency-management messaging software has sued Twitter over alleged patent infringement. The legal documents, however, are pretty vague.
Tags: Web 2.0, Legal, Twitter, Lawsuit, Emergency Management, Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, emergency response, Facebook, founder
Amazon CEO apologizes for Kindle book deletions
News CEO Jeff Bezos has issued an apology last week, after Amazon deletes certain books from users' e-book readers.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Digital media, E-book, Sales, Jeff Bezos, Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., CEO, founder, ZDNet
Skype legal settlement clears path for expansion
News Skype's change of ownership will allow company to return its focus to implementing new features and finding new ways to make money.
Tags: Lawsuits, Founder, Marc Andreessen, Joost, Lawsuits, Joltid, Andreessen Horowitz, Acquisition, eBay Inc., Apple Inc.
Wikimedia Foundation: Jimmy Wales 'absolutely' not out
News Valleywag reported Saturday that the Wikipedia founder was out at the foundation that runs the Web-based encyclopedia. But the foundation strongly disputes it.
Tags: Web sites, Best strategies, Business plans, Wikipedia, Jimmy, RFC, e-mail, job, News.com, founder
Stallman warns of Mono 'risk'
News GNU project founder urge developers to drop use of the open source toolset, saying it could expose their work to legal action from Microsoft.
Tags: Open source, Lawsuits, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Business applications, Apple Mac OS, Debian, C#, photograph
GoodGuide gets into gastronomy with food ratings
News Ratings site has added food to its list of earth- and body-friendly products.
Tags: Web sites, Cookie, Food Item, Database, GoodGuide, food, job, founder, Earth, Web sites
