Microsoft Microsoft Buys Social Network Yammer for $1.2 Billion On Monday Microsoft finalized its acquisition of Yammer, one of the leading providers of social networking and real-time chat tools for enterprises. Yammer's team will continue to report to its current CEO, David Sacks, under the umbrella of the Microsoft Office Division. The deal closed for $1.2 billion in cash. Jon Mitchell View comments
E-Commerce The French Resistance Faces e-Books, Mobile and Tablets It’s been said that the French never throw away bread and books, and a week in Paris confirms just that. But while Parisians love books and hold onto them, share them and resell them in the hundreds of used books stores in the city, they seem to have little use for the tablets and e-readers most hardcore American readers have embraced, albeit… Dave Copeland View comments
Polls [Poll] Should Domains Like .Porn and .Sex Be Allowed on the Internet? Porn is pervasive on the Internet… if you know where to look. It is made and distributed by professionals, amateurs, aggregators, bootleggers and pirates. Really, it is just like any other type of content you can find on the Web. When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the applications for new Top Level… Dan Rowinski View comments
Security Who Are These UGNazi Hackers? A group of malicious hackers calling themselves UGNazi claims it took down Twitter late last week for about 40 minutes. Despite reports confirming the attack, Twitter denied that UGNazi was responsible for the outage, calling it a “cascading bug.” Who is UGNazi? Social Dan Rowinski View comments
Apple Web Developers Brace For the MacBook Pro's Retina Display The Web is about to get uglier - that is, if you're eager enough to plunk down $2,200 for the new MacBook Pro with its ultra high-resolution "retina" display. The new laptop, which Apple unveiled last week, already has Web designers and developers trying to figure out how they're going to create sites and Web apps that look good on the new… John Paul Titlow View comments