Articles
October 31, 2008
The Paper: The Birth of Bitcoin
An unknown author published the design for a digital currency that needs no banks, and the paper is the most radical answer to the crisis.
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September 8, 2008
The Browser: Google's Chrome
Google launched its own browser last week, and the search giant took on Microsoft where it lives: the door to the web.
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August 26, 2008
The Hundred Million: Facebook's Milestone
Facebook passed 100 million active users this month, and the four year old network became the largest social platform on the planet.
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July 14, 2008
The Opening: The App Store Goes Live
The App Store opened last week with 500 apps and more than 10 million downloads in the first weekend, and the mobile economy was born.
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June 19, 2008
The Record: Firefox 3's Download Day
Firefox 3 was downloaded eight million times in 24 hours this week, and the open source browser set a world record the giants could not match.
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May 15, 2008
The Services: HP Buys EDS
HP agreed to buy EDS for 13.9 billion dollars on Tuesday, and the hardware giant made the biggest bet in the industry on services.
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April 10, 2008
The Engine: Google Enters the Cloud
Google launched App Engine on Monday, and the company that runs the biggest web infrastructure in the world opened it to every developer.
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March 11, 2008
The Storefront: Apple Opens the App Economy
Apple announced the iPhone SDK and the App Store last week, and the phone became a platform with an economy of its own.
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February 4, 2008
The Bid: Microsoft Goes for Yahoo
Microsoft offered 44.6 billion dollars for Yahoo on Friday, and the biggest acquisition in its history is on the table.
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January 18, 2008
The Database: Sun and the Billion Dollar Bet
Sun is buying MySQL for a billion dollars, and the most popular open source database in the world just became the bet of a struggling giant.
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