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Well as I promised here is the winner of this week, sorry I changed my mind of keeping “RIA App of the Day” to “RIA App of the Week” as it takes potential time to judge someone’s performance and reliability. Also I do not rank any one who has already been over hyped by the industry to called myself biased. I still say Coghead was the winner last week and this week E41ST acquired the hat.

The name is taken from New york’s public library street name.

E 41ST developed by Amit Gupta is a RIA app integrated with amazon web API and provides a nice rich interface of amazon as an interactive library.
E41ST is an attempt at making a corner of the web look the way I like to see it! Named after New York’s East 41st Street (Library Way), it provides an integrated interface for Browsing(at Amazon)-and-Looking-up(at Library). (more…)

After being served with an unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft, Yahoo has reacted cautiously. In a press release early Friday, Yahoo said it will “evaluate this proposal carefully and promptly in the context of Yahoo!’s strategic plans and pursue the best course of action to maximize long-term value for shareholders.”

Microsoft said to Yahoo board that, depending on how Yahoo responds, it “reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!’s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our
proposal.” (more…)