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Mint Joins The World Economic Forum, Knows That You’ve Cut Back On Starbucks

Mint, the personal financial site that won TechCrunch40, continues to thrive even as our economy sinks deeper into an economic decline. The company has just been selected as a TechPioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland - an honor only given to 34 companies worldwide (other win...

Google’s Apps SLA Allows It To Minimize Downtime Of Gmail, Calendar And More

Any Google App could be unavailable for more than 21 hours on a given day, and the company could still claim they had 100% uptime. That's the gist of an analysis penned by Pingdom, who took a closer look at the Service Level Agreement for Google Apps.The most interesting tidbit in the SLA, which ...

Social Network Netlog To Kick Off Integrated Multiplayer Games

European social network Netlog has announced a deal with game developers Jadestone (Sweden) and Bigpoint (Germany) to start integrating multiplayer games into the community website. Users will be able to play games directly on Netlog without having to create extra accounts, which is a direct resu...

Finally, A Google Earth Browser Plugin For Mac OS X

The long-anticipated release of the Google Earth browser plugin for Mac OS X (Intel and PowerPC) has arrived, about half a year after the plugin for Windows was announced and about 5 weeks after the introduction of the GE iPhone application. Linux users will still have to wait a bit for a compati...

Google Adds Search Box To YouTube Videos & Adds HD Embed

A week ago, YouTube changed the format of their videos to wide screen and HD format. My main issue back then was that the embed options did not give people a way to embed the wide screen format, easily. That has changed. YouTube now allows you to embed a wide screen format and [...]

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