What appeared to be heading fast for a shutdown; Delver a social search engine has been rescued after Sears acquired it. This would turn Delver into Sears’ R&D center while its CEO Liad Agmon will take charge as Sears’ Holdings as he shifts to Chicago. he development of the search engine will continue as it develops new features and products. The price for which the acquisition has been made remains undisclosed and Delver’s employees will be lucky as they take position in the merger.
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I have all the praise for Facebook, from being the leading social network that has mashed up every aspect of networking into one platform to being a tool for brands to keep consumers occupied.
We are removing the product from Facebook, at least for now: says the page for Lexicon.
Everyone will join Facebook, because everyone else is. You will because all your friends are there on the social networking platform and brands will because the competitors are jumping in.
It was only last week when we reported that Sid Meier’s Civilization, the famed strategy game on PCs was set to step onto the Facebook platform in June.
While Microsoft has really brought the Facebook experience to the desktop in the most complete manner with its Silverlight Client for Facebook, it did miss out one important aspect: Facebook Chat.
There you go, I thought Facebook will be the only one being infected by Zynga.
Time goes by pretty quick, I still remember very clearly that I started my university around the same time when Facebook was launched and Orkut was reigning supreme and so was MySpace.
Why doesn’t it surprise me, or does it even surprise anyone around when Hitwise reports of Facebook being the largest platform for reading news? Now it might be following the likes of Google, Yahoo and even MSN at number four, the point why I would consider it even more important is the fact the top three are search engines and they direct traffic back to the source sites.
I always find it interesting to browse through YouTube for funny videos on anything.
I seriously don’t want to imagine the world without Internet, primarily because it would cut me off from the entire world and blogging.