Facebook attracts top US advertisers

The majority of top US brands are using Facebook to promote their products, dispelling the myth that the social networking site is an unattractive environment for advertisers.
Publication date: 2009-08-10

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Xbox Live begins accepting PayPal

Those who do lots of eBay commerce - or those without credit cards - can now support their gaming habits, as online payment service PayPal now plays nicely with Xbox Live. PayPal money can be used to buy Microsoft Points, good for downloadable content, such as games, add-ons, movies and (in the future) music. Those who [...]
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Firefox vs. Google Chrome Revisited

Last week, in Google Chrome is the New Firefox, and Firefox the new IE, I ranted a bit about how slow Firefox 3 (notably tab switching and the "awesome" bar") was on my Ubuntu 9.04 machine. Needless to say, I got some good feedback from that post and it prompted it me to do a few things. I've since been running both Firefox 3.5 as well as the Firefox 3.6 trunk code and can say that both are notably faster than Firefox 3.0.xx. The difference between 3.0.xx and 3.5 was substantial and really helped to close the gap with Chrome. Going to the 3.6 alpha nightly builds made it even faster in some places and slower in others--not surprising since it's still in development. Scrolling was drastically worse, but I'm told that's currently in flux. I have to hand it to the Firefox team. They're not taking Chrome lying down. I've found no real issues with running 3.5 so far and it's a bit of mystery to me (which is to say "I haven't researched at all...") why Ubuntu 9.04 isn't upgrading folks to it. I'm really looking forward to seeing 3.6 stabilize. The Javascript and layout performance seems really good in my use so far. (comments)
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Publicis snaps up Microsoft's Razorfish for $530m

France's communications group Publicis has outbid WPP to buy the Razorfish agency from Microsoft, paying around $530m (€373m) for a business that entrenches its position as the world's leader in digital advertising.
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