World’s largest browser based games portal BigPoint expands to increase monetizing solutions

September 5th, 2009 LONDON - Facebook's free online game Farmville, which allows users to run their own virtual farm, is set to become the most popular application on the social networking site. Farmville, which allows Facebook members to plant, grow, and harvest virtual crops, trees, raise livestock, invest in farm equipment and sell their produce for profit, has become very popular ever since it was launched on June 19.

July 29th, 2009 Video game site lets players bet on their skillsNEW YORK — Although you can win or lose real money, BringIt.com is not considered online gambling, and it's legal in 39 states. The site, which lets players challenge other gamers for money, says it is different from online poker and other games of chance because video games are considered a game of skill.

September 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - Proteans today announced its inclusion on the Software Magazine's Software 500 ranking of the world's largest software and service providers, now in its 27th year. Proteans participating for the first time in this survey was ranked 461, with an impressive growth rate of 62.7 per cent.

June 30th, 2009 Swedish software firm buys Pirate BaySTOCKHOLM — A small Swedish software firm announced Tuesday it has purchased The Pirate Bay, the popular filesharing Web site, for 60 million kronor ($7.8 million). Global Gaming Factory X said the deal would include rights to use the Pirate Bay domain name and accompanying Web sites.

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April 9th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Five years after it was founded in a Harvard dorm room, the online social networking site Facebook has registered its 200 millionth user, the site confirmed Thursday. 'Growing rapidly to 200 million users is a really good start, but we've always known that in order for Facebook to help people represent everything that is happening in their world, everyone needs to have a voice,' said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

July 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - PlaySpanT, the leader in monetization solutions for online games, virtual worlds, and social networks, today announced a new marketplace storefront for Facebook, and coming soon to MySpace, which enables consumers to purchase online game items, virtual goods, and game currencies from many of today's most popular online games and applications. The news marks the first time that consumers will have the ability to participate in a universal virtual goods commerce marketplace that also enables them to buy, trade, and sell goods within social networks and use the items in their online game environments.

July 18th, 2009 New Pirate Bay to be based on give-and-take modelsSTOCKHOLM — One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new owners said Saturday. "The more you give, the more you get," said Hans Pandeya, chief executive of Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X, which announced last month it was buying the site and would start paying both content providers and copyright holders.

July 30th, 2009 Dutch court rules Pirate Bay must quit NetherlandsAMSTERDAM — A Dutch court ruled Thursday that three men connected with Web site The Pirate Bay must block traffic between the site and the Netherlands within 10 days. The written ruling concludes that the men have control over the site and ordered them "each separately and together, to stop and keep stopped the infringements on copyright and related rights of Stichting Brein in the Netherlands" or face a charge of €30,000 ($42,000) per day.

June 12th, 2007 Java applets had taken a beating in the past. Now it appears applets are making a resurgence lately with some quality applet based products.

September 1st, 2009 Sony ships PCs with Google Web browser installedSEATTLE — Sony Corp. is giving Google Inc.'s fledgling Web browser a boost by installing it on new computers.

June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Electrical engineers at UC San Diego have designed novel music discovery games on Facebook in order to improve their experimental music search engine that is capable of listening to new songs and accurately labelling them with words-with no help from humans. The engineers launched the music discovery games on Facebook as an application called Herd It.

August 26th, 2009 Cell phone users rack up accidental data chargesNEW YORK — Verizon Wireless is looking into ways to prevent subscribers without data plans from accidentally starting up the Web browser on their phones and racking up $1.99 in fees each time. On many phones, including ones on other carriers, it's easy to inadvertently hit a button that brings up the Web browser.

September 2nd, 2009 Sony sells PCs with Google Web browser installedTOKYO — Sony Corp. is giving Google Inc.'s fledging Chrome browser a boost by installing it as the primary browser on Vaio-brand computers sold in the United States and Europe.

July 30th, 2009 Nintendo profit tumbles as gaming hits dwindleTOKYO — Nintendo's quarterly profit tumbled 61 percent, hurt by a stronger yen and fewer blockbuster games for its popular Wii gaming console and DS handheld device. The Kyoto-based company said Thursday its April-June net profit fell to 42.3 billion yen ($445.2 million) from 107.3 billion yen a year earlier.