Salesforce Opens Up Force.com Platform To Outside Partners

San Bruno,
Calif. - Google’s (NASD:GOOG) YouTube announced
on Tuesday that it is expanding its Partnership Program, which cut prolific producers
of popular videos in on advertising revenue, to all viral videos posted to the
site. The program was first offered only to producers of consistently popular
videos, and then extended to enormously popular one-offs like "Battle at Kruger." Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo has just officially acquired Maktoob, a very popular Arabic web portal that offers services including search, payments, social network, and auctions. Rumors of an aquisition have been building for months, and in the last hour they reached a head as news of an impending press conference broke. The price hasn’t been announced, but our sources say $85 million.
Palo Alto,
Calif. - Facebook may increase
its headcount by 40% to 50% this year, capitalizing on a glut of unemployed
engineers brought on by the recession, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Bloomberg. The
company currently counts 1,000 employees. "No one else has been
hiring," Zuckerberg told Bloomberg. "It’s been a great environment
for us because the economy has helped out." Read the rest of this entry »

Adeo Ressi, founder of The Funded, a site where people rate venture capitalists and the Founder Institute, an incubator of sorts, has long ranted about what he calls “the atrocities of investors.”