Why The Big G Shouldn't Bother With a Home Entertainment Gadget - and my other links of the day

It's the perfect time for a thorough examination of the most significant links of the day. I've found some interesting links on Google, Taleo and Zynga.

Google: also known as The Big G

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OK, who's been writing about Google? It was mashable.com who wrote an article called Why Google Shouldn't Bother With a Home Entertainment Gadget.

What did they say about Google? They said:

There's a rumor going around that Google is planning some kind of home-entertainment device - possibly and answer to the (also rumored) Apple iTV

and went on to say

Apparently Google's living-room product will be Google-branded, controlled via Android phone or tablet and may eventually expand to do things like control your room lights or kitchen gear. It really sounds like a wonder gadget

Next it's a site that's been talking about Taleo - Oracle Taleo Buy Targets SAP, Salesforce.com.

They wrote:

Oracle's(NASDAQ:ORCL) $1.9billion acquisition bid for Taleo (NASDAQ:TLEO) Feb. 9 was a matter of ifand not when and comes in the wake of SAP's (NYSE:SAP) $3.4 billion forSuccessFactors and Salesforce.com's (NYSE:CRM) acquisition of Rypple

... sounds interesting ...

Taleo offers a "talent managementcloud," for human capital management (HCM) software, a jargon-laced way ofsaying the company'ssoftware aims to help lure, hire, motivate and keep employee talent at alower cost than traditional HCM practices.

Zynga: Zynga (English pronunciation: /ˈzɪŋɡə/) is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.

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To finish it's Zynga Marketing Master Padma Rao Joins Foundation Capital As An Entrepreneur In Residence from techcrunch.com, focussing on Zynga. Great things from them, particularly

Few people realized it at the time, but in late 2008 and early 2009 social game developer Zynga had figured out how to get a great return on investment from Facebook advertising

and

The social network had developed its ad system over the previous few years to the point that it was able to deliver ads closely targeted to users' interests - but most people hadn't realized that yet, so prices were cheap