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[Via IHT] Last week, US$1 billion was wiped out of the market value of UAL (United Airlines’ parent company) within minutes of an erroneous news flash on Bloomberg screens about United Airlines filing for bankruptcy. The stock plunge was instigated by a series of cascading human and machine errors; and all because the date of the original article was wrong!

Read more at http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/15/business/google.php

[Via ITVibe] Google might one day (soon?) start giving away mobile phones for free to users who will accept advertisements being displayed on their phone.

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A couple of nights ago, Alan Williamson, (amongst other things, a Java guru) was invited to attend a lecture by Marissa Mayer (a Product Manager for Google). He later blogged about several interesting facts that came up during the presentation. Here are a few interesting ones:

..The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML..

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Google’s hiring.. as always..

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