Ebay buys StumbleUpon.com

The last couple of weeks has been all about big companies buying smaller companies, (Google buys DoubleClick and Google buys stocks in Maxthon browser).
Now very reliable rumors has it that Ebay is just about to buy StumbleUpon for the large amount of about 40 – 45 million dollars.

StumbleUpon is a web browser toolbar for users to share website favorites and rate them, giving more popularity to sites that people like and then mark as ”Stumbled”. A very interesting and new concept.

StumbleUpon users say they like it because of the surprising factor in what the next random site to see is when they ”stumble”.
Source: techcrunch.com

Adobe Makes Media Player For Flash

While Microsoft challenges Macromedia Flash player then Adobe is developing their own media player for flash.

This player should difference from Windows media player and iTunes by focusing on local content, while, while the applications are supported rss feeds to receive flash video.
There will also be a possibility to download content information online.

Users will have the possibility to download video to watch locally, including padcast, tv shows and movies, but Adobe has focused on making it a player for developers and publishers, so there will be ways to lock the digital media (DRM).

Adobe’s media player will be supported for both windows and Mac.
Source: comon.dk