| Why Does eBay Want StumbleUpon? To Promote Its Auctions
At first it didn't quite make sense to me why eBay would want to acquire StumbleUpon. eBay does auctions and sales. StumbleUpon does random entertainment. At least, that's the way I used the two sites. But then, of course, I remembered that StumbleUpon is basically just a huge database full of associated interests. It's kinda like Amazon. People who liked X also liked Y. Deploy that technology on eBay, and suddenly your users find all sorts of stuff for sale they never knew about. I imagine somewhere inside eBay there's a chart showing that a huge percentage of their site is basically untrafficked. StumbleUpon, if deployed correctly, would help. .
Auction of land offered to YSR's son deferred
HYDERABAD: The Government deferred auction of 487 acres of land in Kadapa district, which was earlier offered to M/s Raghuram Cements by a Cabinet decision, as the latter was the only party to be present for the auction on Wednesday. The cement company has Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy's son Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy as its director. The five-member committee formed by the Government to conduct the open auction postponed the exercise to April 26 with the hope that others would participate in it. A. Raghottama Rao, Chief Commissioner, Land Administration, who headed the committee, said participation by others would ensure a better price. He said the committee had fixed Rs. 50,000 as upset price for the auction. Members of the committee were S. Bhale Rao, Special Commissioner, Land Administration, B.
Dubai Islamic Bank denies bidding for Egypt's NBD
(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Dubai Islamic Bank, the third-largest Gulf Arab Islamic lender by market value, denied yesterday a report it was bidding to acquire Egypt's National Bank for Development (NBD).
UAE daily Al Bayan reported Dubai Islamic was among three bidders for the bank. Others were Saudi Arabia's National Commercial Bank and a UAE-Gulf consortium, the paper said, quoting unnamed Egyptian banking sources. "The news is totally untrue," a Dubai Islamic Bank official, who asked not to be named, said, adding the bank was in no way involved in any such deal.
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Bidding Joe Savage a sad goodbye
Willing their eyes not to well, clenching their jaws lest a sob slip out, Joseph Savage's friends and family carried his body into the church. Carefully, slowly, they parted a crowd of 500 or more to gently, awkwardly, place his casket before an altar still white with Easter lilies. Joe died in a fire in the basement of his Walden home on Friday. He had come home late from a friend's house, unbeknownst to his family, and had fallen asleep downstairs. The rest of the family escaped, not knowing there was one more to account for. Fire officials have not released the cause of the blaze. There is something to be said for a volunteer department that hoists an American flag from the top of its ladder trucks, letting the fabric snap in the stiff crosswinds over the road to the cemetery.
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