Twitter Turns Down a $500 Million Offer from Facebook

Twitter has reportedly turned down a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook on 24th Nov 2008. Twitter executives believed it was worth taking a shot at creating their own revenue-generating system before giving up the company to acquisitions. And, BoomTown’s sources say that the $500 million offer, which was an all-stock form, was seen as being “inflated,” since Facebook’s actual valuation is said to be close to $5 billion.

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Till this day, we had to use greasemonkey scripts or userstyles.org CSS styles to add spice to our Gmail Inbox. Yeah, it worked fine but once you were on a different PC, it would be back to vanilla Gmail. Not any more.. Gmail is now themeable and there are plenty of great themes to choose from .

 My current favourite is “Mountains”. It looks great and is easier on the eyes. Although dark themes look good, once you shift from a dark page to a normal one, your eyes just start to hurt.

      

Top 25 Hottest Indian Web Companies, as compiled by AppAppeal.com, a Web-based application review site.

Sites in the list :
bharatstudent.com – social network
bigadda.com – Indian youth networking site
bixee.com – jobs search engine
burrp.com – local business reviews
chikka.com – web based text messenger
corners.in – social network applications
faayda.com – job search engine
foodiebay.com – restaurant directory
fropper.com – social networking
hellointern.com – internship search
holidayiq.com – travel and holiday portal
khichdee.com – classifieds from India
kyakare.com – event calendar
musicindiaonline.com – Indian music resource
naukri.com – job search
nautanki.tv – online video content
olx.com – free classifieds
onyomo.com – local search engine
picsquare.com – online photo printing
rediff.com – online news & information provider
slideshare.net – share powerpoint presentations
tezaa.com – sharing opinions
weread.com – community for book lovers
zapak.com – free online games
zoomin.com – store, share & print photos