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Google Not Immune to Recession, a Sad Farewell to GeoCities

by Warren Riddle on October 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM



Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
  • Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed this week that the famously wacky company, widely known to entertain its employees with frivolous benefits, will be eliminating some of those kooky perks. It should be interesting to see if the cutbacks, and the company's growing focus on science and research, will create employee animosity and damage its once stellar corporate reputation. [From: All Things Digital]
  • Yahoo! will be pulling the plug on Web-hosting service GeoCities on October 26th, and the company recommends that members move their sites to Yahoo!'s paid hosting service. It's an unceremonious end to a Web legend, so get those guestbooks signed before the 'Cities becomes an Internet ghost town. [From: Mashable]
  • Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to a group of French business executives and government officials on Tuesday, and he gave his 10-minute speech entirely in French. The bilingual Ballmer has inspired giddy and gushing writers to bust out that freshman French, using phrases like "Joie de Vivre" and "C'est What?" What? No "Gene C'est Quoi," or "Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi?" [From: The Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! Finance]
  • Studies conducted in New Zealand, England, and Norway have concluded that encouraging text messages sent daily can double the odds of successfully kicking nicotine addictions. Regardless of the cell provider or contract, text fees will still pale in comparison to the cost of expensive pills and programs. (Let alone cigarettes.) [From: Reuters]
  • Apparently, since no one wants to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars to hear her speak, Sarah Palin has been using social networking as her new pedestal from which to attack the current administration. Hopefully, Obama will launch a counter-strike so the Facebook flame wars can truly commence! [From: The Christian Science Monitor]


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