Microsoft to buy Yammer for more than $1 bln - WSJ

Business software company Yammer Inc has agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp for more than $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. It was not certain when the deal would be completed and formally announced, the Journal said. San Francisco-based Yammer declined to comment, while Microsoft could not be reached for comment outside regular U.S. business hours. Yammer, which began in 2008 and provides enterprise social networking services, has raised more than $142 million in venture capital funding. It says it counts more than 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies as clients, and is backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who also invested in Facebook (FB.O).
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Facebook to ask users phone details

 Facebook will ask its more than 900 million users to provide it with their mobile phone numbers, Daily Mail reported Friday.  The move is part of a drive to improve security on Facebook, and comes in the wake of  password hacks  at other networking sites including  LinkedIn and  eHarmony .  Millions of Facebook users have already seen a link at the top of their desktop news feed requesting them to follow "simple security tips".  They are then requested to provide their phone number for secure account recovery.  The social network would then send a text message to the user informing that their password has been changed.  This, the site reasons, would be preferable to sending the user an email because many of these are ignored as assumed junk and get deleted.  Facebook Friday said the desktop  security message , already seen by millions of users in the US, will be on all accounts in the next few days.
http://techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Facebook-to-ask-users-phone-details-13085

Times Internet acquires minority stake in logistics company Delhivery

Times Internet has invested in New Delhi based logistics companyDelhivery to boost last mile delivery service for Indiatimes Shopping, its ecommerce vertical. Gautam Sinha, Director, Technology and Ecommerce, Times Internet has confirmed the development to India Digital Review saying that Indiatimes now owns a significant minority stake in Delhivery. "After pivoting from a marketplace to a retailer model, we had to strengthen our warehouse network and last mile delivery. This acquisition is done to boost our delivery capabilities. Some ecommerce companies in India are doing this by launching their own courier network, but that requires time to scale, hence we have decided to take the acquisition route. Indiatimes Shopping currently has three warehouses and we are planning to open two more by the end of this fiscal," said Gautam Sinha. In January 2012, Nokia India had partnered Indiatimes to launch an online store for its range of mobile phones called NokiaShop. Speaking about that partnership, Gautam Sinha said that Indiatimes Shopping has earned revenue at Rs 3 crore per month through that partnership and expects this to reach a figure of Rs 10 crore per month. The company is also launching similar ecommerce sites for two different brands by August 1, 2012. The model of setting up partnerships with various brands is that the warehousing and last mile fulfillment is done by Indiatimes and the company is paid a commission on every transaction. Sinha further said that the company is expecting to do Rs 300 crore of revenue by the end of the current financial year. Indiatimes Shopping currently employs 200 people and plans to increase the headcount to 340 people by the year end. Meanwhile, Times Internet has also launched a shopping application for Android phones. The new application allows users to view the product range that Indiatimes Shopping has for mobiles and compare prices and seal the deal with easy payment options. Users can also compare the prices of products listed on Indiatimes Shopping with other websites by using their mobile's camera to scan the QR code or ISBN code. The codes, which are mapped to a unique product, are then compared with prices on other e-commerce sites.  
http://techgig.com/tech-news/editors-pick/Times-Internet-acquires-minority-stake-in-logistics-company-Delhivery-13092

[Top 5] Best Free Antivirus and Anti-Spyware Software for Windows

If you are a Windows user, you must install an antivirus and anti-spyware software in your system. We all install software, games, themes and many other stuff from various sources such as downloaded from Internet, from CD/DVD, USB drives, etc and if the downloaded file is infected, it can also install a virus or spyware [...] Read rest of this article at AskVG.com
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mStartEX: Windows 8 Style Start Menu Replacement for Windows XP, Vista and 7

We are pretty much aware of the new Start Screen introduced by Microsoft in its upcoming OS Windows 8. Start Screen is a Start Menu replacement for Windows 8 which shows live tiles of installed programs and built-in tools in Windows. According to Microsoft, the use of big square tiles makes it easier to navigate [...] Read rest of this article at AskVG.com
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FrostWire 5.3.7

FrostWire, a BitTorrent client (formerly a Gnutella client), is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world.
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Origin Beta 8.6.0.357

Origin lets you purchase and play EA games - any time and any place you want. With the in-game overlay, you can browse the web while playing select games.
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