Yahoo has come up with a web-based messenger. This should have been done long time back when Google started integrating Gtalk on the web in every means it would – Gtalk is integrated with Gmail, Google personalized home page as a gadget and finally you can add their gadget to any page that you might want.
Google Analytics Launches New Version
Yesterday, Google has launched new version of Google Analytics. It will be migrate all existing accounts to the new Google Analytics interface over the next few weeks. Around a month both the original interface and the new interface will be available. Google will inform by email when its migrate.
New interface presents data more clearly details as well as easier use and comprehension of the reports and metrics within the data sets for layperson.
Tata Consultancy Services bags Russian bank order
India’s top software services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services has signed a multi-million dollar deal to supply software to Russia’s BIN Bank, helping the company’s share rise as much as 2.9 percent. “Our entry into the Russian Federation is part of a long term growth plan in the region,” N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, head of banking practice at Tata Consultancy, said. The company did not give financial details of the deal.
Lakshmi Mittal richest in Europe
Lakshmi Mittal is doing what he does best. Making money.
For the third successive year, the Indian stell tycoon is top of a list of the super rich in Britain – who have also trebled their wealth during Tony Blair’s reign as Prime Minister.
Mittal’s own wealth galloped to £19.250 billion from £14.881 billion last year, increasing the distance between him and second placed Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich (£10.800 billion) by almost £480 million within a year. Mittal’s growing wealth has been attributed to his successful takeover of Arcelor.
He is also the richest among the 50 richest in Europe, while the Hinduja brothers are at number 25. Amonth the 50 richest in the world, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, with a wealth of £19.6 billion, come in at number five, followed by Mittal at number six. Predictably, the top two positions stayed with two familiar names – the Walton family (Wal-Mart) topping with £42.6 billion, followed by Bill Gates with £28.7 billion.
More Information on Anchor Text
Google engineer, Vanessa Fox shares more information on anchor text. Google has replaced the individua anchor text words that we showed for your site in webmaster tools with a list of full anchor phrases. She also said:
we’ve enhanced the information we show you in the following ways:
- We’ve expanded the number of phrases we show to 200.
- You can now see the variations of each phrase (for instance, with different capitalization and punctuation).
- More sites now have access to the anchor phrase report. So, if you didn’t have this report before, you may have it now.
- We’ve brought back the report showing the most common individual words in anchor text (you asked; we delivered!).
- We’ve expanded the number of common words in anchor text and common words in your site that we show to 100 each.
They have also updated robots.txt analysis tool to correctly interpret the new Sitemap instruction that all three search engines announced support for last week.
Microsoft Release Media Player of Firefox
Microsoft has announced the release of its Windows Media Player for Mozilla Firefox web browser. The plug-in, available on Firefox’s add-on site, is compatible with the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the XP SP2 and Vista OSes. This new add-on lets web surfers use Windows Media Player to view multimedia content in Firefox.
Firefox 3.0, the next upgrade of the browser, is scheduled for release later this year.
Experian Acquires Hitwise
Blogger Comes in More Languages
Google is now available in eight new languages, which brings in nineteen total.
Google is coming in more languages too — stay tuned!
Yahoo! Update
Search Engine Lead mentioned that today evening, Yahoo! is going to update their search result and will be complete soon.
20m Vista Copies Sold
Microsoft Corp. has sold 20 million consumer copies of the new Windows Vista operating system worldwide in February, but analysts said the data shed little light on the programme’s popularity during its first month on the market.
Dell’s low-cost PC in China
According to Reuters, Dell Inc. the world’s second-largest personal computer marker, unveiled a low-cost PC on Wednesday for China, its fastest-growing market. The PC is priced from 2,599yuan to 3,999 yuan (about $335 to $520), the company said in a statement. Dell ranks third in China behind homegrown powerhouse Lenovo Group Ltd and Founder Technology York Li.
Barclays, ABN Rapid Takeover Talks
British bank Barclays and Dutch bank ABN AMRO aim to agree to tie-up within 30 days. Barclays and ABN said late on Monday they were in “exclusive preliminary discussions”. No details of any deal were released, but Barclays is likely to have to pay more than $80 billion for its rival. It would be Europe’s biggest ever financial services deal and create a bank work more than $160 billion.