Companies
Facebook to borrow 100mn$?
Facebook is taking up 100mn$ to buy servers (?). And apparently it is burning at least 150mn$ per year. Noty bad for the enfant prodige company that was able to get 240mn$ at 15bn$ valuation from Microsoft. They had better figure out a way to make more money, pronto.
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Nestoria - smart house search
Nestoria is a vertical search engine focused on real estate with operations in UK and Spain. Founded by a few Spaniards -amongst which friend and former top dog for Yahoo Search Europe Javier Etxebeste- it aggregates information and data from other vertical engines and estate agencies, properly and smartly aggregate and present in a pleasant [...]
AdMob Analytics
Surely AdMob is moving swiftly and smartly in the mobile space. Just shortly after having announced the 20th billion ad served, they are rolling out a very interesting product: AdMob Analytics.
The product is now in beta and, not having a mobile site, unfortunately I can’t try it, but some information is given on the website. [...]
Panedia - see the world from your desk
I just came across a company with an amazing product. Panedia. It is really amazing. They organize high resolution and high quality geo-referenced pictures. They are made by professional photographers. The company is Australian, or at least I think so as all of the pictures they have in their archives are from Australia.
You can select [...]
Signs of a bubble bursting
I remember back in January a colleague of mine telling this story to a small audience.
“Sunday I was in bad with a bit of flu, and here he calls, the agent from XXX, asking me if I wanted to see some property to buy (he showed interest in buying a property weeks before). I [...]