Facebook Gets $100M Loan for Servers / Facebook (facebook.com), the fast-growing social networking phenomenon reportedly raised an additional $100 million in funding this week that will be used to buy additional hardware to support the service's growth.
The company has already said the entirety of the new money will be used to acquire servers to help accommodate the swiftly increasing numbers of new users and popular plug-in appli ...
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MYOB Launches Web Hosting Services / Australian accounting and small business software tools provider MYOB (myob.com.au) announced on Monday it will be offering domain registration, email hosting and website hosting services.
Following its acquisition of Australian web hosting provider Ilisys in March, it was speculated MYOB would be moving into the software as a services market. Although Tim Reed, MYOB's managing director, sugg ...
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Hostopia Launches Fax-to-Email services / Reseller web hosting provider Hostopia (hostopia.com) announced on Monday that it has launched a private labeled fax-to-email service that telecoms and other service providers can sell to their small business customers.
Also known as "IP fax" in the communications services market, says Hostopia, fax-to-email services enable users to send or receive fax messages on their computers via email ap ...
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Layered Tech Adds Hosting Packages / On-demand infrastructure hosting provider Layered Technologies (www.layeredtech.com) reported on Monday that it has added a range of new offerings to its selection of dedicated server hosting plans.
The packages include new HP servers configured with Quad-Core AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors and the option to hold up to 12 hot swappable hard drives. Layered Tech says the new machines off ...
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Host Color Adds osTicket Support / Hosting provider Host Color (hostcolor.com) reported on Monday that it had made the open source support ticketing program osTicket to three of its shared hosting plans.
The osTicket application will be available to customers of the Max, Mega and Multi Domian plans, as a part of the company's PowerTools application library, through the user's control panel. Host Color says the application will ...
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Sitestar Buys USA Telephone Assets / Web hosting provider Sitestar (sitestar.com) announced on Monday it has purchased an undisclosed number of DSL accounts and related assets from USA Telephone (usacsp.com). According to the press release, this is Sitestar's second transaction with the company.
Last November, Sitestar closed a "blockbuster deal" with the Maine-based competitive local exchange carrier in which it acquired nearly ...
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