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Surprise Cash Bonus for Google’s employees

All of Google’s employees received $1,000 cash holiday bonuses. On top of that Google offers 2011 salary increases of at least 10%. By this gesture, Google shows that the company is a great place to work. The company’s financial performance continues to be very good and tries to keep its employee happy. Especially that recently

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71% of Internet users have latest version of their browsers

Good news for web developers and HTML5. According to the newest data from Pingdom and StatCounter, majority of Internet users (71%) run the latest official versions of their browser. What does it mean? Web developers should more likely implement HTML5 into web projects. With that environment, the new standard is going to flourish and new

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Google is suing the United States government

Google claims that its products were excluded from a $58m deal to restore e-mail systems at the Department of the Interior. Google declares that the terms of the 5-year contract favor Microsoft. Google wanted to offer its Google Apps software for that contract, but at the Department of the Interior required to use only Microsoft’s

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Blekko, a new search engine

Blekko is a new search engine founded by Rich Skrenta. The service rank and organize websites by using splashtags which can be created by anybody who uses Blekko. You can click here to learn more about a functionality of Blekko. Even that the website is still very young and their search results are not always

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Myspace is coming back

MySpace launched a new and improved design. The website is going to narrow its focus on entertainment for people between 13 and 35 years old. Mr. Michael Jones, the president of Myspace, said that the site is not going to compete with Facebook, Myspace focus only on social entertainment.

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Google represents 6.4% of all Internet traffic

According to the newest data from a network security firm Arbor Networks “Google now represents an average 6.4% of all Internet traffic around the world.”. It includes all websites owned by Google: Google.com, YouTube.com, GMail, Google Maps, Google Docs etc.

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Facebook sues Faceporn

Facebook has sued a website Faceporn.com claiming trademark infringement. According to Facebook’s court filings, Faceporn “blatantly copied the Facebook logo, site and Wall trademark.” Faceporn is offline now and it says on its front page: “Faceporn will be back! Due to unforeseen circumstances, faceporn is down until further notice. We are doing our best to

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2 billion Internet users by the end of this year

According to a report from the International Telecommunication Union, we can expect 2 billion Web users by the end of this year. One of the hard data shows that 65 percent of Europeans are on the internet, while less than 10 percent of Africans use Web. That is going to be improved. The biggest grow

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Apple leading in the tablet computer market

Since in April 2010 Apple launched iPad, the company has shipped 7.5 million of this device. During the recent quarter Apple sold 4.19 million iPads, and 3.27 million iPads in the quarter before. It makes Apple the largest player in the tablet computer market.

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Few updates about Twitter

Few updates about the most popular micro-blogging website have been posted on the official Twitter Blog. According to the Blog, the service has already 160 million users and it is available in six languages. Few days ago the Twitter’s co-founder Evan Williams stated that Twitter is planning to reach a billion users by 2013.

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