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"Do we really need another news aggregator to follow in the footsteps of Google News, Digg, Reddit, Netvibes and the rest? Well, the founders of NewsCred have decided we do - and they reckon they've got two killer angles which will make their service, launched today, into a...

A Comprehensive Look at Digg's Recommendation Engine

"It's hard to believe but Digg's latest feature, the recommendation engine is one that has been in the works for over two years. Before they developed images functionality, launched visualization tools, released Google, Netvibes, and Myspace widgets, developed Facebook...

EU Official Retreats From French Plan To Tax Net

"The European Union telecommunications commissioner, Viviane Reding, distanced herself Monday from a proposal by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France to impose a tax on Internet and mobile phone access, saying it might not be the best way to expand access to new media. At a...

Old Googlers die hard?

I have recently  become a user of Googles email, calendar, online document creation, Reader and of their wonderful personalised homepage. I've also started using a similar homepage based system called Netvibes which has a different, less clean feel to it (in my humble...

Netvibes to make widgets universal

Netvibes is getting aggressive..."Netvibes to make widgets universal. Also at FOWA, Netvibes has announced a new Universal Widget API, which will mean that any widget created for Netvibes will also work on Google, Vista, and MacOSX. Support for Yahoo is also in the works....

Mobissimo Travel Search and Netvibes hooking up today

This is not a marriage of convenience rather 2 good partners linking together.

Netvibes secures a $15 million investment

"NetVibes, a Paris/London based company, will announce a $15 million round of financing on Monday. Existing investor Index Ventures joined new investor Accel to lead the investment, which is one of the largest this year for a European company (Bebo, a UK based company raised...

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