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In the fall, Digg raised a $28.7M Series C round and kept its independence for at least one more year. Rumors of an acquisition first surfaced in March and heated up again over the summer, but ultimately fizzled out. Social discovery site Digg was Silicon Valley’s most eligible startup of 2008. Google, Microsoft Said To Be Preparing Bids For Digg Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suitsĭownloaders rejoice! The nefarious RIAA decided in the midst of the holiday season to drop its policy of suing the pants off of people for peer-to-peer sharing of songs. It turned out to be false, but not before a lot of questions were raised. Sometimes a rumor just is too good to pass by, or too outrageous not to debunk, and that’s what happened with a mid-October report about Google buying games-maker Valve, creators of Half-Life and Counter-Strike. With every developer and her sister getting into Apple’s iPhone App Store game, might as well expect tech’s giants to play along, right? In mid-November, Google did just that, releasing its Voice Search as an application. Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone) A win-win for both Apple, who placated its popular App Store suppliers, and developers, who concentrated their brains and created successful masterpieces like iFart. In early October, Apple revised its developer terms to rescind a cumbersome non-disclosure agreement, allowing curious coders to share their findings amongst each other. But better than owning an iPhone is profiting from other people who have them. Wait, whaddya mean it’s only for Windows?Įveryone loves the iPhone. (How do you react when your benefactor switches from patron to competitor?) Oh, but nevermind the competition, this thing is slick, lightning-fast, and, brand-new. Huh, here’s a twist: perhaps it’s Firefox, the browser developed by Mozilla, Google’s neighbor and dependent, which is really in Chrome’s sights. Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Projectīrowser wars are back! Or so people thought in early September, when Google launched Chrome, its secret project to topple Microsoft’s exploit-addled Internet Explorer. The vaunted gathering which launched the iPhone, the Apple TV, and a rainbow’s worth of iPods would be sans official support of the Cupertino fruit company starting in 2010. Just a few weeks ago, Apple decided to bow out of an industry conference MacWorld, like many of its peers and colleagues. Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld The initial shock of Microsoft’s $44B offer – not to mention the ungodly hour which the news was released – caused a seismic wave to pierce the heart of Sunnyvale and startle everyone from San Francisco to Seattle. The story at the top of the Techmeme’s charts for 2008 was Microsoft’s ultimately futile attempt to purchase Yahoo. Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share
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