Facebook Platform Player Involver Hires an Enterprise Sales CEO

Fan page creation company Involver has brought in enterprise software guy Don Beck to replace its founding CEO, the company will announce today.
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Google Offers a Cloud-Based Safety Net for Microsoft Exchange

Google is launching an email continuity service that takes over when Microsoft’s Exchange servers invariably fail or go down for maintenance. And by replicating a corporate email system within Gmail, it appears to be a migration tool that makes it just that much easier to drop Exchange and move to Google Apps.

Google: We’re Hiring, and Spending, Again

Google CEO Eric Schmidt used the opening moments of a New York City press conference to reinforce a message he’s been delivering for several weeks: The worst is over, things are looking up, and Google is spending accordingly.
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John Will Not Be Buying a PlayStation 3, but Thanks for the Price Cut!

John covers the $100 price cut of Sony’s PlayStation 3 today here, which comes only days after the struggling electronics giant said it had “no immediate plans” to drop the price. But John’s still not opening his wallet (now empty from his iPhone purchase) until they throw in a George Foreman G5 Grill in Platinum [...]

More Braaaaaaaains…

Here’s a metric to consider: Google has announced more acquisitions in the first half of 2007 than in all of 2006. Today it announced one more. This morning the search juggernaut bought Postini for $625 million, making the communications security and compliance company its 14th acquisition in six months.