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Apr
18

Facebook asks users to translate new versions for free (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Technology News on April 18, 2008

In this frame grab image from Facebook Website, the Turkish glossary of Fracebook in work is shown Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Facebook is going global, but with a little help from its friends. In an aggressive push to expand beyond English, the social networking giant has begun rolling out international versions of its site. First came Spanish in early February, followed by German and then French in March. Nearly two dozen other languages are in the works, including Japanese, Turkish, Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish and Dutch. The twist is that all the translating is being done by Facebook users themselves — for free. (AP Photo/Facebook)AP - The three-year-old social networking phenomenon Facebook, worth more than $15 billion by many estimates, got a good deal on going global.

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Apr
18

Back in the USSR: Soviet Internet domain name resists death (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Technology News on April 18, 2008

The front page of the ussr.su Web site seen on a computer screen, in Moscow, Thursday, April 3, 2008. The site belongs to a Russian cyber squatter who wants to sell it - or any other domain name listed on the page - for USD $3,000. The .su country code domain that belongs to the defunct Soviet Union has witnessed a flood of new customers attached by nostalgia to Soviet past or just a chance to have a Web site with an easily recognizable name. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - The Soviet Union may be in the dustbin of history, but there’s one place the socialist utopia lives on: cyberspace.

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Apr
18

Music Web site Buzznet expands online portfolio (Reuters)

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Reuters - Not content to let MySpace, iLike and
Facebook take all the online music thunder, Buzznet is roaring
into the Music 2.0 market with a vengeance.

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Apr
18

Social networks prepare own music services (Reuters)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Technology News on April 18, 2008

A screen grab of MySpace.com. One of the biggest new-media sensations to emerge from last year were music-related widgets -- mini-applications that allowed members of social networking services like MySpace or Facebook to customize their profiles with such music features as streamed playlists and tour calendars with links to ticket sales. (www.myspace.com/Reuters)Reuters - One of the biggest new-media
sensations to emerge from last year were music-related widgets
– mini-applications that allowed members of social networking
services like MySpace or Facebook to customize their profiles
with such music features as streamed playlists and tour
calendars with links to ticket sales.

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Apr
18

IRS asks for charges against former Mercury Interactive CFO (AP)

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AP - Government investigators have filed a criminal complaint against the former chief financial officer of software maker Mercury Interactive accusing her of tax evasion in connection with a stock options backdating scheme.

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