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Google to Acquire Postini — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide.
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Dave Girouard / Official Google Blog:
Welcome, Postini team — We launched Google Apps so that it would be easier for employees to communicate and share information while reducing the hassles and costs associated with enterprise software. Companies are responding: every day, more than 1,000 small businesses sign up for Google Apps.
Ryan McIntyre / McInblog:
P&G (Postini and Google, of course) — I am excited to announce that Postini has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google for $625 million in cash, subject to working capital and other adjustments, and Postini will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google.
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Rajen Sheth / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Secure innovation - Postini joins the Google team — Since launching Google Apps last August, companies of all sizes have experienced the benefits of delivering simple, useful hosted applications to their employees. However, larger organizations are frequently forced to choose between taking advantage …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google snaps up anti-spam and data security firm Postini — Google has announced a $625 million acquisition of Postini, a major provider of corporate communications security and spam filtering services. Postini will become a wholly-owned Google subsidiary when the deal closes at the end of the third quarter.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Google to buy Web security co Postini for $625 mln — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O) said on Monday it has agreed to buy Web-based security provider Postini for $625 million, expanding its package of online applications to compete with Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT.O) Office.
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:Google To Purchase Postini For $625 Million
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Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Sony cuts price of PS3 on eve of E3 — Video game expo scaled back this year as competition grows — Sony Computer Entertainment America kicked off the E3 video game conference one day early, announcing a $100 price cut for its PlayStation 3, a high-performing video game console …
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Piper Jaffray predicts 6th-gen iPods by January — Piper Jaffray analysts have decided to weigh in on the rumored 6th generation iPod this week, saying in a new report that they expect totally revamped iPods to be announced by January of 2008 according to MacNN.
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Analyst: Mac OS X-based iPods by January — Changes to the iPod may soon bring it in line with the iPhone, while avoiding cannibalized sales, according to a new outlook report. Analysts at the research firm Piper Jaffray suggest that as expected, the next generation of iPods will be based …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mosh, Yahoo's New Social Network Initiative — Here's a juicy tip - we've been hearing about a new Yahoo social network initiative called Mosh, which is at mosh.yahoo.com but can only be accessed from inside the Yahoo offices. If you happen to be using the guest wifi at Yahoo …
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Write Articles, Not Blog Postings … I recently served as a "consultant's consultant," advising a world leader in his field on what to do about his website. In particular, this expert asked me whether he should start a weblog. I said no. — You probably already know my own Internet strategy …
Bill Ray / The Register:
Is your phone free? — OpenMoko sets Open source handset loose — The OpenMoko project has debuted what could be the ultimate geek handset: a Linux-based mobile phone, complete with an open-source operating system and application suite. — The Neo 1973 handset, which starts at $300 …
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Mike Kobrin / CrunchGear:
Exclusive: iRiver Clix Rhapsody Review — The second-generation iriver Clix is an impressive little device, but iriver followed in SanDisk's footsteps and used its partnership with Rhapsody to create a pretty slick little end-to-end solution called the Clix Rhapsody.
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Dean Takahashi / Mercury News:
Microsoft's next move? Code-name Falcon — Here's a trade secret that Microsoft is unlikely to publicly acknowledge. — Sony's cutting the price on the PlayStation 3. How will Microsoft react? We'll find out soon. But a key part of the strategy is going to be a project code-named Falcon.
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Security Firm Auctions Bugs — A Swiss company has launched an eBay for details on unpatched security vulnerabilities. — Recommend this story? — Psst. Want to buy a zero-day? — A Swiss startup called WabiSabiLabi Ltd. has some for sale, but to qualified buyers only.
Robert Hensing / Robert Hensing's Blog:
VISTA READYBOOST SUCKAGE & VISTA RESUME SLUGGISHNESS — Soo last week I finally figured out why sometimes my notebook takes forever to resume from an S3 / S4 sleep. My notebook is a Dell D820 with a Core2 Duo and 2GB of RAM - yet its brought to its knees sometimes when I resume.
