With last week's announcement that Web search company AltaVista was going to layoff 225 employees, one-fourth of its workforce, I finally concluded that Digital Equipment , AltaVista's founder, is the greatest single object lesson of the electronics age.
BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle maker backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, plans to locate the U.S. headquarters of three separate operating divisions in Los Angeles, according to an announcement on the Web site of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC).
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Richard Clayton, a researcher at Cambridge University specialising in web traceability, said Google's announcement was positive but had not gone far enough.
On this site, next to the proud and Valley-like announcement, "On the Web in '95, " Andreas offers many services.
Soon after news sites like The Next Web reported the story, Facebook posted the announcement on its blog.
David Edmonds, head of telecommunications watchdog Oftel, said on Wednesday he had taken "at face value" Altavista's announcement in March that it would give web-users access to the internet at a flat rate.
Even he was surprised at the number of responses he received. ("The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes, " he says.) Godin says 48, 000 people looked at the post and 340 applied.
Within hours, according to the cybersecurity researchers at Panda Labs, the loose group of hackers that calls itself Anonymous launched a distributed denial of service attack that threw junk traffic at the web server of the blog that had made the WikiLeaks announcement, and by 4am had taken the site offline.
Amazon is taking on both companies with the announcement of Elastic Beanstalk, the latest addition to Amazon Web Services.
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For example, we discovered in IBM that when a particular eminent blogger talked about a new product announcement, it increased audience traffic to the product information web pages almost a thousand-fold.
Before the announcement the Twitter echo chamber was loudly skeptical and the rest of the Web was mixed.
This week's announcement that Ford and Microsoft are teaming up to produce custom cars ordered through the Web got us thinking.
The announcement on Thursday follows the launch of NHS Direct Online earlier this week, which lets web users check medical symptoms and receive advice and boasted one and a half million hits in its first day of existence.
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