According to Conceivablytech.com, Google may completely change around the user interface for the Chrome browser. One of the changes may be moving the address bar to within a tab itself. This could help save some navigation space at the top of the browser. Another feature may be multiple user profiles. Personally I’d like to see Google Toolbar integration. The last time there was a major UI change in Chrome was in July 2010. Check out the image above to see the “compact navigation” model.
Conservative radio and TV host Glenn Beck believes that Google employees Jared Cohen and Wael Ghonim were “instrumental in the revolution of Egypt.” Beck recently went on Bill O’Reilly’s show to talk about a conspiracy between Google and the government to lead the revolution in Egypt. “I just don’t want my search engines fomenting revolution,” said Beck. Beck said that leftists are accusing him of boycotting Google. “I have business contracts with Google,” said Beck. “Google is one of the most competent businesses out there” and he said that he doesn’t think you should boycott them. Check out the video above to see the interview. Do you agree or disagree with Beck? Let us know in the comments.
HomeAway.com is in talks with several banks about a $300 million IPO according to BusinessWeek sources. The banks that HomeAway is talking to include Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Goldman Sachs.
Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) and Russian auto company Sollors has signed a 50:50-owned joint venture. Ford Sollors will be manufacturing and distribute Ford vehicles in Russia. This joint venture includes the local production facilities in the St. Petersburg region and in the Republic of Tatarstan. Below is the press release:
Google has recently announced a way to import your Yahoo! Delicious bookmarks into their own bookmarking service. When you go to google.com/bookmarks and click on the “Import Delicious Bookmarks,” you are asked to log in using your Yahoo! or Delicious account credentials. It imports all of your bookmarks with all of the tags associated with them. Google Bookmarks launched in 2005 and is a very popular service. Yahoo! has indicated recently that they want to spin-off Delicious, possibly to Kevin Rose and the Digg team.
RoundPegg has raised $1.27 million in a funding round led by Access Venture Partners with participation from Croghan Investments. RoundPegg was incubated by TechStars. RoundPegg is a website that matches potential employees with employers. RoundPegg uses a personality and culture algorithm to make the recommendations. Currently RoundPegg has thousands of job seekers and hundreds of companies signed up. [TechCrunch]
Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report decided to poke some fun at AOL’s acquisition of The Huffington Post for $315 million. When surfing over to The Huffington Post website, he said he sees a lot of videos and pictures of himself. But Colbert did not get a cut of the acquisition money himself so he decided to launch a website called The Colbuffington Re-Post. Yup, its a real website. And Huffington Post retaliated by launching a website called Huffbert Nation. [Mediaite]
Brothers Marc, Oliver, and Alexander Sawmer run a fund called the European Founders Fund. They bought shares in Facebook in 2008 and sold it recently. They sold their shares because they are in early stages and their requirement for capital for existing investments has tripled.