Blog hosting website WordPress.com went offline for about 110 minutes. This caused 10.2 million blogs to go offline and deprived them of receiving about 5.5 million pageviews. The reason why WordPress.com went offline was because of a core router change by a data center. All of the data is safe, but just could not be served. “The entire team was on pins and needles trying to get your blogs back as soon as possible. I hope it will be much longer than four years before we face a problem like this again,” stated WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg. [WP Company Blog]
General Motors is investing $494 million across three U.S. plants to manufacture Ecotec engines. Of the $450 million, $425 will be spent in Tonawanda, New York to produce 370,000 of the Ecotec engines per year. About $59 million will be spent at GM’s Defiance, Ohio plant for precision sand cast block. About $10.5 million will be spent at the Bay City, Michigan plant for bringing new product to plants. “GM is transforming its product portfolio to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, and the next-generation Ecotec engine is an integral part of that transformation,” stated GM Vice President Denise Johnson. [Edmunds]
Moblyng is a Redwood City, California based startup company that develops slideshows and mobile platforms. According to SEC documents, the company has raised $1 million from unknown sources. Previous investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures and Deep Fork Capital. Moblyng has raised about $9 million thus far. [VentureBeat]
Parody news agency The Onion decided to poke a little bit of fun at Friendster.com. They made visiting Friendster.com sound like an excavation. Friendster was actually sold to MOL in December 2009.
Joseph Andrew Stack of Austin, TX left an online suicide note before colliding his plane into a building. The suicide note was highly critical of the government and the IRS taxation system. His suicide note was left on EmbeddedArt.com. The building that was targeted is a federal IRS outsourced building. About 199 employees work there. The full suicide message is below:
Murray State University freshman Isaiah Canaan (#3) made a three pointer shot from near half court right at the shot clock buzzer. This video currently has about 773,247 views on YouTube.
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has acquired an iPhone application called reMail. reMail allowed iPhone users to download their GMail e-mail and search through it quickly. As a result of the acquisition, the reMail iPhone application will be discontinued. reMail founder Gabor Cselle will be joining the GMail team at Google. Google would probably use the technology for their own GMail iPhone application. Cselle previously worked at Google as a software engineer. reMail was a Y-Combinator company.
Facebook and PayPal has announced a partnership today. You can now use PayPal to pay for Facebook Credits and Ads. Facebook has about 400 million users and 70% of them are outside of the United States. PayPal has about 81 million active users using 24 different currencies.
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