Yahoo! to Strengthen Competitive Position in Online Advertising Through Non-Exclusive Agreement With Google

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Yahoo! Inc. a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Google Inc. that will enhance its ability to compete in the converging search and display marketplace, advancing the company’s open strategy. The agreement enables Yahoo! to run ads supplied by Google alongside Yahoo!’s search results and on some of its web properties in the United States and Canada. The agreement is non-exclusive, giving Yahoo! the ability to display paid search results from Google, other third parties, and Yahoo!’s own Panama marketplace.

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PS3 Techology Powers Fastest Supercomputer

PS3 Techology Powers Fastest Supercomputer 

BM new supercomputer called “Roadrunner” is built and designed using components from Sony Playstation 3. Roadrunner is now the world’s fastest machine costing nearly $100 million and operates at 1 petaflop per second or 1000 trillion calculations per second. It is like powering 100,000 fastest laptop computers. Roadrunner will be used by the US government to monitor the US nuclear weapons stockpile and also for research in astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change.

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