I continued to ponder why IBM and Oracle both purchased BRMS (business rule management software) vendors in 2008, and whether it really has to do with the economic downturn as Oracle publicly states that it does.  One reader very accurately pointed out:
I would say it is a bit unlikely that they decided to purchase [...]

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Social aggregator site Power.com, which allows users to access multiple social networking sites from one interface, got in trouble recently with Facebook.  Facebook sued Power.com for storing Facebook user credentials within their own database and scraping what Facebook called "proprietary data" (i.e. user data).  Facebook and Power.com are working towards an agreement to settle [...]

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