Acquistions by Yahoo, Google, Microsoft,...................

Now a days acquiring one company by another company is quite common and it is difficult to remember list. So I have decided to put a list of acquisitions on my blog. You can see below for complete acquisition history of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and other major giants.

Google also acquired Tusli(Google Blogger API Engineering Team), Zingku (Mobile social network and communication platform) in September, 2007 and Jaiku(An activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones (Helsinki)) in October, 2007.

Download MS excel sheet for detailed Google Acquisitions list. Click here to download Excel sheet.
http://freshblogspot.googlepages.com/GoogleAcquisitions.xls

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Surprise Yahoo! Messenger Friends Who Pretend to be Offline

You want to chat with a buddy on Yahoo! Messenger but his status on Yahoo! says Off-Line.

There are two possibilities here - your friend could be really offline or he may have logged into Yahoo! Messenger in “Invisible Mode” to avoid interruptions.

(Yahoo! Messenger has a Stealth settings feature that lets you choose the people who see you as online and offline.)

You can however beat that mask easily with services like Xeeber or VNGrabber that reveal the exact status of your Yahoo! Messenger friends or any other Yahoo! user.

All you have to do is type the Yahoo! Messenger username and you will instantly know the exact online status of that person. Time to put on your detective gloves.

Visit XeeBer.com and VNGrabber.com

Remove ads from Yahoo Messenger

Welcome to the original and safest way to amend the ads in Yahoo! Messenger. Please Remember the advertisements in Yahoo! Messenger are there to pay for us to chat for no cost, and fund Yahoo!, and so you should not block the ads. You may even find something in the ads that appeals to you!

Download
Choose ONE of the following:
The first is easiest, second requires knowledge of extracting archives but is MUCH quicker download, third is easier than second, and a quick download.

Option 1
1. Save file to PC.
2. Open file, click "Unzip".
3. Run c:\noads\noads.exe.
4. Restart Messenger.
noadsse.exe - 64KB - Self Extracting

Option 2
1. Save file to PC.
2. Open file, extract to any location. DO NOT RUN noads.exe
3. Close file. Go to location you extracted to and run noads.exe.
4. Restart Messenger.
noads.zip - 3.12KB - Zip Format

Option 3
1. Download BOTH files into one place.
2. Run noads.exe.
3. Restart Messenger.
noads.exe - 4.5KB - Executable File - Save, do not open
noads.jpg - 0.7KB - Jpeg File - Right click and select "save target as..." and save to the same folder as noads.exe

Change Yahoo messenger title bar

Hey guys you can change the yahoo messenger title bar...
For this just find the folder messenger in the drive in which the messenger is installed. Then search a file named "ymsgr". In this file just go to the

end and write the following code:
[APP TITLE]
CAPTION=Apna Blogs
Here you can write any name in place of Apna Blogs... then see the fun.... You can have your own name being placed in yahoo messenger title bar.