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David Gelles, Joseph Menn, Chris Nuttall and Richard Waters in the FT's San Francisco bureau upload their technology views
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Deal of the day: China’s Shanda buys up S Korean game developer
By Virginia Garcia Martinez of mergermarket
Dragon Next has become one of China’s favourite online games of 2010: when it was released for testing in July, hundreds of thousands of people played it simultaneously.
Now the company that developed Dragon Next - South Korea’s Eyedentity - has been acquired by China’s second-biggest online gaming publisher, Shanda Games, [...]
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Online business in China: high stakes, short tempers
From the FT’s beyondbrics blog
It doesn’t take much to irritate a Chinese internet titan. Alibaba Group, the country’s largest e-commerce company, had already fallen out with its biggest shareholder, Yahoo, over a Google-government hacking dispute. (Yahoo backed Google, Alibaba said be quiet.)
Now Alibaba has reacted angrily to a report that Yahoo’s Hong Kong site might [...]
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D-Ram: glut, shortage, and now glut again
By Jane Rickards in Taipei
Samsung Electronics foresees an oversupply of dynamic random access memory (D-Ram) chips in the fourth quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year if the PC market continues to slow, marking the latest twist in a tortuous saga of gluts and shortages.
Even for an industry renowned for its boom [...]
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Linguee is the right word for good translations
Google has a neat trick in its Chrome browser of spotting web pages displayed in foreign languages and offering to translate them, then doing so instantly and in reasonable fashion.
But Linguee, launched on Wednesday in five languages, does a better job when it comes to grasping context and finding just the right word for the [...]
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How Google Instant could change SEO and SEM
If Google Instant is everything that Google hopes it will be, the entire industry of search engine optimisers and marketers has some work to do.
The new search feature, launched at a slickly staged event at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art (Google is finally learning some of the Apple magic), predicts a user’s intent and [...]
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