Facebook Acquires Atlas Ad Platform Microsoft
Facebook has the Atlas Advertiser Suite Microsoft acquired. The platform allows advertisers campaigns to roll out and understand the results of their advertising activities. The platform will continue to operate as it does now, the company promises.
For what amount Facebook Atlas Microsoft bought is unclear, most sites as a sum of around $ 100 million, but according to TechCrunch, an amount closer to $ 50 million more plausible. Microsoft itself was Atlas in 2007 held as part of the acquisition of aQuantive, where an amount of $ 6,000,000,000 was mentioned.
According Facebook gives advertisers Atlas' a holistic view of the performance of their campaigns, "and they will" better position the right message to the right people to deliver. "Particularly stresses the social network to the possibility of the results of their Facebook campaigns similar to those in other places on the web, be it on desktop or mobile.
Facebook promises to customers, including Microsoft now going to fall, that Atlas will continue to function as they used to and that the company continues to invest in the platform. The development of Atlas continues based in Seattle.
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Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices
With the official release of Flash Player 10.1 for mobile devices, Adobe has put a major step forward in making available the full web on mobile phones. Flash Player 10.1 is now available on Google Android 2.2 (Froyo) and already one of the most popular free applications in the Android Market. Availability of Flash Player 10.1 on other mobile platforms - including BlackBerry and webOS - will soon follow. The new Flash Player for these operating systems is expected soon and over-the-air download is available and will be installed on smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices in the coming months.
Adobe has long awaited the release of Flash Player 10.1 for the desktop (last week) and now also for mobile. The teams have worked hard in recent months on a complete redesign of Flash Player and the results are! We are especially proud of the Flash Player 10.1 offers opportunities for developing and distributing applications and content to mobile devices. Many features allow mobile content, applications, and better video can be viewed within the mobile browser and CPU load and battery strongly limited.
What especially appeals to me, and with me more than three million flash designers and developers worldwide - is the fact that Flash Player 10.1 unleashes the development and distribution of content and applications on mobile platforms. Designers and developers can deploy their Flash skills to develop on a wide range of platforms. They can use their creativity not only on smartphones release, but also on tablets, netbooks, television and other consumer electronics. With this release a whole new world of opportunities has opened for many designers and developers worldwide. We are curious about your Flash Player is 10.1. experience. We're committed to developing attractive content for all screens possible extending the ultimate user experience.
BlackBerry PlayBook iPad For Grown ups
After months of speculation Research in Motion, known as the maker of Blackberry phones earlier this month officially announced a tablet computer to be aimed at the business market. The 7-inch tablet gets a surprisingly playful name: Playbook.
The specifications of the playbook are promising: a multi touch screen 1024 × 600, 1 Ghz Dual Core processor, 1 GB of RAM and two cameras: 3 megapixels on the front, 5 megapixels in the back. There is a USB port and HDMI built in and the icing on the cake, the playbook easily handle Flash videos and websites. Each point of the device surpasses the iPad.
Actually, there seems little to vent about the playbook. The only major deficiency is the lack of 3G. The playbook connects via WiFi to the Internet or by using the compound of a BlackBerry device. The small number and limited quality of Apps for Blackberry OS can hardly be called a deficiency. Indeed, business users have better things to do than play Angry Birds. Secure connections, business tools and integration into corporate networks is more important for a business tablet and let it just be where RIM excels.
More surprising is that the first promo of the play book mainly focuses on photos, videos, music and other trivialities where business people tend to ignore. The big advantage that RIM has is many corporate networks are completely setup and are accessible for Blackberry devices. Thus the Blackberry Playbook is received by many system administrators with open arms.
The Blackberry Playbook is not built for the masses unlike it's rival iPad. Instead it's purely aimed at business people in a corporate environment. Playbook makers have plenty time to develop and shape a marketing strategy as the Playbook is expected to arrive first quarter of 2011. Apple seems to have enough time to come up with an iPad 2.0 Steve Jobs seemed not impressed with the device, he called it: 'LackLuster RIM Job'
Internet Explorer 9 Beta Release
Earlier this month Internet Explorer 9 was released. With this release Microsoft made a significant step forward in the browsing experience for Microsoft Internet Explorer user.
Speed
The browser makes maximum use of the power of the PC. For graphic operations, the graphics card is used optimally. This results in fast processing of Web pages, making pages render faster.
Web Standards
Support for Web standards including HTML 5. Anything by a (reasonably) in the final standard is considered by IE9 supported. With HTML 5 you can build very attractive solutions. Here is a good sample of a website that uses HTML5 on IE9: http://html5.labs.ap.org/ (news reader, but different).
User and content center
A new concise rapid UI provides a pleasant use where all attention to what matters to the browser: 'the web pages'. Through a website IE9 can also easily be integrated into the Windows 7 UI. And this integration can be given an identity, so the user can easily recognize. A number of partners have already applied this nifty trick . Try to drag the Facebook, Amazon, eBay, CNN, Twitter to the taskbar.
Safety
Every effort is made to keep browsing safe at all time.