Roundup: Ma.gnolia, Red Herring, Microsoft spy and Japan have a bad week, and more
Here’s the latest action:
Google Toolbar gives Firefox a taste of Chrome - Toolbar now offers personalized "new tab" pages with thumbnails of favorite and bookmarked sites in Firefox.
Bill Gates, Debbie Downer of Davos - The Microsoft founder predicts the economic downturn will last four years, says the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has lost a fifth of its value.
Ma.gnolia crashes and burns (and not even because of the economy) - The bookmark sharing web site lost its primary bank of user data and its backup in what Wired’s blog has called a "catastrophic" failure. Ouch.
Hitachi caps off lousy week for Japan - The company forecasts a $7.8 billion loss, the biggest ever for a Japanese manufacturing company.
Even more bad news for newspapers - Printing the New York Times costs twice as much as it would to send every subscriber a free Amazon Kindle, according to a Silicon Alley Insider.
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