http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:18:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Usually, we all look forward to the holidays as a time of cheer, relaxation and endless James Bond marathons on TV. But this year, with global economies in shambles and daily reports of massive layoffs, your all-you-can-watch $50 monthly cable TV service is looking excessive. And forget upgrading to a fancier ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=88 Facebook CFO Gideon Yu is still looking for funding at the $15 billion valuation Microsoft set purchasing 1.6% of the company for $240 million in the company in Fall 2007*, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told TechCrunch: [Zuckerberg] confirmed that Facebook's $15 billion valuation round was still open and that CFO Gideon ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=86 Commercial open-source CRM (customer relationship management) vendor SugarCRM said Monday it will give customers the ability to plug in feeds from third-party data sources like the business social-networking site LinkedIn. The new "Cloud Connectors" feature is part of the vendor's new SugarCRM 5.2 release, which will be available worldwide this month. While ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=84 Microsoft has released an early version of an open-source content management platform that developers can use to build sophisticated blogs or large Web sites. Called Oxite, its creators describe it as a standards-compliant and highly extensible content management platform. They built it not because there is a need for another blog ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=82 A new virus is spreading through Facebook. The Koobface -- a worm designed specifically to spread over social-networking sites -- is blasting spam messages out to Facebook members. The motive is to enable hijacking and click fraud. The messages offer subject lines like "You look so funny on our new video" ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=80 Police have prohibited Cuba's most prominent blogger from attending an independent cyber-workshop and warned that her activities ran afoul of the law, her husband said Friday. Yoani Sanchez and husband and fellow blogger Reynaldo Escobar were summoned separately Wednesday to a police station near their apartment in Havana's Vedado district and ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=78 Tough economic conditions could slow expansion at Google Inc.'s server farm in the North Carolina foothills, the company said in declining a sliver of a $260 million state incentive package. The Silicon Valley Internet giant never finalized a deal by which it would recoup up to $4.8 million in state taxes ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=76 The first decade of the 21st century has brought us a series of major economic and geopolitical shocks: the dot-com bust, the Sept. 11 attacks on New York, the financial crisis led by the subprime meltdown, and just last week, a fresh bout of terrorist attacks in Mumbai that threatens ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=74 Social networking company Facebook is delaying a previously announced plan to let employees sell part of their stocks, due to difficult global economy, the Wall Street Journal said. In an email to employees on Thursday Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the stock sale plan, which was proposed in August, was ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=72 The group of 20 young, fresh-faced computer programmers in jeans and polo shirts embossed with the company logo could have been with any Silicon Valley startup. But the team, lined up in New Delhi in July 2007 for a portrait taken by a news photographer, work for a Swiss company ... http://www.goforten.com/blog/jimmy/?p=70