Google acquired Bump Technologies, which produces software for three-dimensional display files "desktop» – BumpTop.

BumpTop was presented to users in April 2009. The program, which works on Windows and Mac OS X, allows you to put files on the desktop in the form of "columns", "deck of cards" or as a neat "folders" on the shelf.

According to the developers, the company will cease to develop the project and stop selling BumpTop users.

Google in conjunction with the company-car manufacturer Ford have developed a new technology content of banner advertising, which creates and places banners depending on the theme of the site.

According to head of digital marketing Ford Scott Kelly, the new Google’s technology automates the work on which is usually spent a lot of effort. "For the first time Google can crawl our web sites and on the fly to create an advertisement, locating it really is relevant, – he commented. – First we take the search target and put the "branded" wrap around ".

Internet giant Google plans to start selling e-books on a universal platform. With the new service, users can download the version of the book to the many electronic devices that access the Internet. Opening the service is scheduled for the summer.

Service name – Google Editions; foundation work – "cloudy" database of books. Electronic books are a commodity in a few services, but each company has its own limits downloadable book format and "tying" it to a certain type of device for reading. Thus, the company Amazon sells books only for the Kindle, as Apple only for their devices.

Internet-company IAC/InterActiveCorp has informed, that decrease have arrived in the first quarter 2010 it was braked owing to returning large advertizers in sphere of the Internet-advertising. For first three months of this year the company has lost $18.7 million or 16 cents for the action while one year ago its losses have made $28.4 million, or 19 cents on the action.

The income of the company has raised on 16 % up to $385.9 million that has exceeded expectations of analysts which predicted about $350.2 million income.

Budgets are returned in online advertising, but it did not affect earnings AOL: According to the company, its revenue in the last quarter fell by 23%, and advertising sales fell by 19%.

Analysts attributed this fall in the ongoing restructuring of the company, which holds the new head Tim Armstrong. The figures demonstrated other market participants, particularly Yahoo and Google demonstrate the significant increase in profits and recovery dynamics of growth in sales of Internet advertising.

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