Taleo Acquired By Oracle Database Corporation For $1.9 Billion - also the best of the web

It's the perfect time for a thorough examination of the most significant links of the day. I've dug up stuff on Taleo, YouTube and Microsoft.

So, who has been writing about Taleo? It was www.webpronews.com with their post entitled Taleo Acquired By Oracle For $1.9 Billion.

What did they point out about Taleo? Well...:

Oracle and cloud-based talent management company Taleo announced today that Oracle is buying Taleo for about $1.9 billion

and went on to say

"Human capital management has become a strategic initiative for organizations," said Thomas Kurian, EVP, Oracle Development. "Taleo's industry leading talent management cloud is an important addition to the Oracle Public Cloud."

YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.

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Next we have a site that's been talking about YouTube - YouTube's Latest Original Programming: Olympic-Style Lightsaber Relays.

They wrote:

Here's a fun example of the original programming that YouTube is supposed to be investing in these days - a relay from Santa Monica to San Diego

... OK ...

With lightsabers

Microsoft: http://Microsoft.com

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Lastly we have Microsoft to Unveil Windows 8 on February 29 from technorati.com, focussing on Microsoft. They had some interesting points to make, particularly

SAN FRANCISCO: This Wednesday Microsoft revealed plans to unveil a test version of its latest Windows computer operating software later this month

and

Members of the press recently received an invitation from Microsoft to a special Windows 8 Customer Preview event in Barcelona as part of the Mobile World Congress trade show. The event is on the 29th February, and it is assumed that the Customer Preview will be made available to the public in conjunction with it.