Google employees are so special that they even get Japanese space toilets on which to rest their stock options.
SFist found these sexy Japanese Toto toilets in Google’s headquarters. They feature front and rear cleansing along with a dryer and some sort of insane wand cleaning system that may be part of Google’s 80-20 projects [...]
Globme, a newly launched service that is described by its co-founder and CEO, George Lee, as “a lifetime organizer,” is being introduced as a private beta. And its youth is noticeable.
There are several parts to the Globme puzzle. Visit the home page, and you’re shown some of the most active profiles. When looking at a [...]
VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company.
Our sources have been saying this deal is highly likely since May, but hasn’t actually been signed yet and could still be disrupted by the [...]
Facebook is doing its part to help you find new friends, recommending people you may know and even allowing existing friends to recommend someone they think you should be friends with. There isn’t, however, much in the way of finding compatibility amongst those friends. While Facebook is doing a little bit to improve [...]
Today, Bill Gates is retiring as an employee of Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic foundation. More than any other single person, Gates defined the PC era. His products touch nearly every computer user on the planet. And he created what is still the biggest technology wealth machine in Microsoft. [...]
Powerset, we hardly knew ya. The much-hyped natural language search engine has been acquired by Microsoft for north of $100 million according to VentureBeat. The search engine, which presently only lets you search Wikipedia articles, works by allowing users to enter in queries the way they would speak them, for example, searching for [...]
The latest update to iGoogle’s sandbox promised more social capabilities for developers, with the biggest enhancement being the support for Open Social applications in activity streams. This version of iGoogle is now available for limited testing, pushing the social capabilities of the start page even further.
Other big changes occur around communications with friends: Gchat [...]