http://www.takeaplunge.com Ventures, Start Ups, Businesses Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/up-to-half-of-all-media-sites-plan-to-support-the-ipad-and-html5-video/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/up-to-half-of-all-media-sites-plan-to-support-the-ipad-and-html5-video/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:41:56 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3624 The iPad doesn’t support Flash because Steve Jobs does not think too highly of Flash. Now, Apple’s this stand has created lots of discussions about how much video you will be able to view on the iPad. It seems you’ll be able to view about two thirds of new videos. These videos are presently being encoded in [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/up-to-half-of-all-media-sites-plan-to-support-the-ipad-and-html5-video/feed/ 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-reigns-supreme-but-microsoft-sees-faster-growth/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-reigns-supreme-but-microsoft-sees-faster-growth/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:34:31 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2910 comScore has come up with the December 2009 global search stats.  Like expected, Google holds the top spot for total worldwide searches last month. Google sites received  87.8 billion searches. This is an increase of 58 percent from December 2008 values. Yahoo received 9.4 billion and Baidu received 8.5 billion searches. In December Google had two-thirds [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-reigns-supreme-but-microsoft-sees-faster-growth/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-to-boost-staff-by-50-in-2009-report/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-to-boost-staff-by-50-in-2009-report/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:34:26 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=1956 Facebook, the online social networking site, will expand its staff by as much as 50 percent this year. Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg news agency in an interview. Facebook’s has over 900 employees at present. This is an interesting news during this time of recession. Rival MySpace, owned by News Corp, announced in June, [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/facebook-to-boost-staff-by-50-in-2009-report/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/what-will-apples-big-tablet-cost/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/what-will-apples-big-tablet-cost/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:11:04 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=1652 Speculations are there that Apple is soon introducing a tablet computer. soon, we’ll all be sorely disappointed. With all the ongoing speculation about the alleged iPod-on-steroids, I feel like the device is already here. According to Apple Insider the Big Tablet is arriving early next year. This prediction matches one two months ago by Piper Jaffray [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/what-will-apples-big-tablet-cost/feed/ 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/ibm-pulls-offer-on-sun-deal/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/ibm-pulls-offer-on-sun-deal/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:14:59 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=1002 According to the Associated Press, IBM Corp. has withdrawn the offer to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. for about $7 billion. The deal could have created new vistas for the computer industry. Both the companies were in their final stages of negotiation. But IBM withdrew its offer after Sun terminated IBM’s status as its exclusive negotiating partner. IBM [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/ibm-pulls-offer-on-sun-deal/feed/ 1