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Google and IBM Come Together for Cloud Computing

Google and IBM began their alliance a couple of years ago in a rather unusual way. IBM CEO Sam Palmisano called up Google CEO Eric Schmidt and asked about distributed computing. Google wanted no part in the matter, but something apparently sparked its interest since the companies began a partnership at that time.

Yahoo Looks At Geographical Relationships

Yahoo's taking its geo services to the next level, and along the way, the company's offering everyone a preview.  The Yahoo Internet Location Platform essentially figures out the relationships between different cities, states, and countries.

Actors And Studios In Dispute Over Online Clips

Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the major studios stalled last week after the two parties could not reach an agreement on how actors should be compensated for online clips.Studios want to distribute clips of old TV shows and movies without actors' permission and pay them a flat fee instead of paying each actor individually. The actors union is against the measure.

Google Describes How They Print Money

The auction-based process used by Google and other search advertising companies sets the keyword price for ads, in a way that Google's chief economist described as an efficient and equitable process.

Microsoft Zooms In With WorldWide Telescope

The universe comes to the desktop as Microsoft placed its WorldWide Telescope application into public beta.

AdWords Knows Your Landing Page Speed

Speed will be part of the quality score impacting one's keyword buys in Google's AdWords service, with Google now showing landing page load times in the AdWords interface.

Google May Start Working With Intel SSDs

Solid state drives aren't exactly mainstream.  They would fit right in with the solar panels, Prius fleets, and organic food that can be found around the Googleplex, however, and that's reportedly where they're going.

Google Sites Top U.S. Video Property

U.S. Internet users watched 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, a 13 percent increase over February and a 64 percent boost over March of 2007 according to comScore Video Metrix.Google was again the top U.S. video property with more than 4.3 billion videos viewed (38% share of all videos) gaining 2.6 shares over the previous month. YouTube made up 98 percent of all videos viewed at Google Sites.

Is Harmony.com Worth $5 Million?

Shortly after Fund.com raked in $10 million, reportedly a record-breaker for a straight domain price, Jay Westerdal, the 30-year-old CEO of Name Intelligence, Inc., put up Harmony.com at the starting bid of $5 million, a sale that went live officially today.

RSSmeme Puts Out API

Bloggers looking to brag on themselves (or "share their most popular stories," if you prefer) can now do it more easily thanks to Benjamin Golub.  Golub's RSSmeme API will create a list that should work with all of the most popular blogging platforms.