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It didn’t take long for NetSuite to cozy up to Google. Shortly after the Web conglomerate rolled out its open source browser Chrome last month, the SaaS suite provider announced its support. NetSuite was also the first vendor to announce support for the iPhone and for Firefox 3.0, Mini Peres, NetSuite’s vice president of product marketing, told LinuxInsider. Support for Chrome, though, may prove to be an especially intriguing alternative for its customer base — primarily because it is so Ajax-friendly.

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Will Chrome Find a Home With SaaS?

RealNetworks released its controversial RealDVD movie ripping application last week but within days removed the program from its Web site due to a legal feud with the Motion Picture Association of America. RealNetworks provided TechNewsWorld with a final prelease version of the RealDVD software last week in consideration of a new product review. The app lets you save a copy of a DVD to your PC’s hard drive. It only works with a DVD, not content saved to a DVR or other digital media devices.

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RealDVD Works Great - If You Can Get It

Ask.com rolled out a new version of itself Monday. The revamped search engine includes a new user interface with three new technologies — DADs, DAFS and AnswerFarm — that offer users the ability to search the Web using commonly spoken language. The enhancements to Ask.com will help the site retain existing users and attract new, said Caroline Dangson, an IDC analyst. Ask.com’s new technologies differ from those used by competitors such as Google, Yahoo and MSN Search because they enable Web surfers to type real questions, instead of a series of keywords, according to Ask.

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Ask.com Taps Semantics for Smarter Search

Online auctioneering pioneer eBay announced it will slash 1,000 jobs and acquire online payment processor Bill Me Later for $820 million in cash and $125 million in outstanding options. The 1,000 layoffs will cut San Jose, Calif.-based eBay’s total workforce by 10 percent and will result in a pretax restructuring charge of about $70 million to $80 million, most of which will be recorded in the fourth quarter. “These reductions will help improve our operations and strengthen our ability to continue investing in growth,” said eBay President and CEO John Donahoe.

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eBay Bites Bullet, Jettisons 1,000 Jobs

One of Facebook’s two cofounders is jumping ship to start his own Internet company. Dustin Moskovitz announced he’ll leave the social networking site in about a month. He and colleague Justin Rosenstein, a Facebook engineering manager who previously worked at Google, will launch a new enterprise software business. Moskovitz first formed Facebook with CEO and close friend Mark Zuckerberg while the two were students and roommates at Harvard in 2004. He has been one of its biggest cheerleaders over the years and is the latest in a string of execs to part ways in the past several months.

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Facebook’s Other Founder Goes Off to Found Some More