10th April 2011 Archive

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Opera uncloaks Gmail challenger from Down Under

A beta nine years in the making

Opera has unveiled a free web-based email service along the lines of Gmail or Hotmail. Announced with a blog post but little other fanfare, the service is currently in beta, and it's available to anyone with a My Opera account. "Our goal is to make a fast and friendly mail service that is efficient and easy to use on any …

Music and Media 10 Apr 03:48
Google's patents bid may prompt showdown with Microsoft

EU antitrust complaint from MS adds fuel to fire

Google bid $900m for Nortel patents on Monday, as its defence against rising Android litigation. The search giant now needs to compete with Apple, Nokia and Microsoft in an aggressive intellectual property rights (IPR) power play. When Google emerged as the stalking horse bidder for Nortel's huge patents hoard, it indicated …

Mobile 10 Apr 08:00
Google buys Canadian music startup Pushlife

$25m buy makes three in a row

The Googleplex is keeping acquisition activity alive in the Canadian tech sector, buying its third start-up from the land of maples with the acquisition of Pushlife for US$25m. Pushlife joins Canadian tech companies Bumptop and SocialDeck as Google acquisitions. The company was founded and led by former Research In Motion …

Financial News 10 Apr 21:57
Blinkx bursts with ad-serving network buy

Online video is the new TV

Video search giant blinkx is getting closer to becoming a broadcaster, extending its content reach to the advertising community with the acquisition of Burst Media for US$30m. The merger will bring blinkx’s vast data bank of 35 million hours of online video and TV to Burst’s claimed audience of over 130 million unique users. …

Music and Media 10 Apr 21:58
Vocus buys ailing Australian fibre network

Digital River acquisition won’t cause wholesale / retail conflict

Troubled dark fibre provider Digital River has been acquired by Vocus Communications, giving the Australian wholesaler nearly 60 Km of operational fibre in Sydney and Melbourne at the bargain-basement price of A$3.95 million. Digital River was founded in 2001 to build a network serving Melbourne CBD premises, and later …

Networks 10 Apr 22:53