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Tue 06 January, 2009

We started Xobni because we realized there was an amazing opportunity to leverage our abilities in machine learning and statistical modeling to "take back" the email inbox for our users.

TraderTools™ LLC is a provider of business solutions, software and services to financial institutions trading FX. TraderTools’ Liquidity Management Platform™ is the only system to integrate the four disciplines of electronic FX trading: pricing, dealing, order management and execution.

BSKLive is a leading provider of integrated employee scheduling and communications technology to optimize labor utilization and control labor costs for employers with shift based workforces. BSKLive's flagship product, StaffKnex, is an intuitive, web-based application that combines staff scheduling, work requirements, employee qualifications, business rules, and communications into a highly automated staff management system.

Apple unveiled a change in the pricing structure for its iTunes music downloads Tuesday, ending the 99- cents-a-song pricing that has helped iTunes dominate the industry.

Follow the companies that are shedding workers with this live layoff tracker, which we'll continue to update as more news surfaces.

So president-elect Barack Obama wants to make the deployment of broadband Internet networks part of a sweeping stimulus package that he hopes would create new jobs, update the nation's hospitals, schools and other facilities, and lift the United States out of recession.

The computer giant's claims about its eco-friendly policies may be just a lot of empty boasting, according to a news report.

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Monday that doctors may have discovered the cause of the weight loss that has caused speculation about his health, adding that he will continue to serve as the computer maker's CEO.

In contrast to 2008, headlined by a slew of great titles and increasing popularity of gaming in general, the year ahead isn't shaping up to offer much industry excitement.

Holding "the key to growth in India," according to a market analyst, nearly 22 percent of small companies plan to pick up their first PCs in 2009.

The Mac maker has never pulled any punches in competing against Microsoft, even when it was dependent on the Windows giant.

Manufacturer of PC peripherals, based in Switzerland, says the retail environment has "deteriorated significantly" and will "worsen in the upcoming months."
Mon 05 January, 2009

AMD is introducing new chips at CES that target the no-man's land between Netbooks and notebooks. Enter HP's Pavilion dv2.

Longtime Server and Tools unit head Bob Muglia is now president of the company's server unit.

You've likely never heard of ARM, a small U.K. company that doesn't advertise or put its name on any products. But chances are that as you read this, you're within sight of an "electronic brain" that ARM designed -- its handiwork lives in items as diverse as GPS navigators, camcorders and the Nintendo DS.

Ahead of Macworld, top Windows marketer says consumers can't afford to go Mac. But with the economy in tatters, will people be buying any PCs other than Netbooks?

Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we've been steadily growing and adding features.

As the leading on-line directory driven marketing solution for B2B, Jaz'd! is changing the way on-line marketing works by aligning buyers and sellers together in highly informative, measurable and easy-to-navigate environments. Jaz'd! partners with leading B2B publishers, industry associations and social networks to deliver Web 2.0 enabled vertical marketplaces built upon a foundation of integrated directory placement, high quality traffic generation, social tools, click-track analytics and vertical search functionality into comprehensive marketing as a service (MaaS) platforms.

Amid pessimism surrounding the economic situation, more rumors of layoffs within companies, including Lenovo and Microsoft, have surfaced online.
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