Alibaba Group has hired a US lobbying firm in a sign that the Chinese e-commerce company would be willing to make a bid for all of Yahoo Inc in the event that talks to unwind their Asian partnership fail. Japan’s Softbank Corp, which owns a 30 percent stake in Alibaba and is a partner in...
Google Apps Marketpl...
posted by Mr. Startup
A one-stop shop for all your business apps. The Apps Marketplace is a one-stop shop for tools you need to run your business – accounting, project management, customer management – to name a few. You don’t need to download anything – just add to your Google Apps account and...
Airbnb owns the worl...
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Airbnb thinks its better to centralize the European community outreach efforts in order to better serve the community. As a result, a handful of people will be leaving the company. Airbnb has been battling Wimdu (Samwer clone), in Europe and particular in Germany and surrounding...
Startup in Bejing ...
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Lets go China, one of the new generation of entrepreneurs that took advantage of this opportunity is Zhang Lan, founder of South Beauty. No IT Startup but a fancy chain of restaurants, which specialises in Sichuan cuisine. The company now has branches across China, and says it is looking to...
Zynga – Startu...
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And the winner is….It is best known for its whimsical online games on Facebook, and more than 270 million people use its games each month. Zynga is the Web’s largest social game company. Zynga priced its initial public offering at $10 a share, at the top end of its expected range. The...