Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the site at $15bn (£7.3bn). Facebook spurned an offer from Google which was also keen to invest the site.
Students who regularly use laptops are putting themselves in danger of persistent neck, back, shoulder and wrist pain, and they are often unaware of the risks they are taking until it is too late
Microsoft plans to launch a health service later this year that will involve some a way for patients to store health information online, on their computers, and cellphones. There will also be an online search component. Google is expected to launch Google
The sleeping giant stirs. Vivendi's Universal Music has said it is to test the digital sale of songs from artists without the customary copy-protection technology.
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"What we care about is what makes information inadequate." David Weinberger's keynote about the value of the implicit @ Defrag Con. He's describing the route to web 3.0: http://tinyurl.com/yw4ffj