AOL Sells ICQ For $187.5m
Folks who were around during the beginning of instant messaging will remember ICQ, which set the standard for instant messaging back thereupon. AOL acquired Mirabilis, the Israeli-based company who came up with the program, back in 1996 for $407 million, and now the company has decided to let it go for $187.5 million to Russian [...]
Chatman fleshes out emoticons
Emoticons have been around for quite some instance already, helping translate what would take a few words or phrases into a simple, graphical representation of what you’re feeling at that point in instance. The Chatman transforms virtual reality into an actual face, targeting PC and Mac users who spend plenty of duration on Instant Messaging [...]
No Google Purchase Of Yelp
For those of you who are worried that Google will be buying by the world piece by piece, you’ll probably be happy to manufacture out that the latest news indicates that the Yelp deal is off. Word on the street is that Yelp actually walked away from a $550m offer from Google, which is certainly [...]