国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
eBay announces that it has agreed to acquire Butterfield & Butterfield, a large California auction house best known for antiques and fine art, for US$260 million ineBay stock.
The thirteenth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Chernobyl Virus erases disk drives and hard drives across Asia and Europe. Turkey and South Korea report three hundred thousand downed systems. The virus originated in Asia the previous summer. Mikko Hermanni Hypponen of Data Fellows, Ltd., will report to the Reuters news service that some people were calling his service in tears. One woman had just completed an entire book of poetry before the virus erased it completely. This is the first known virus to target flash BIOS.
Version 6.0 of the Red Hat Linux (“Hedwig”) operating system is released. Visit the official Red Hat website.
2000
Hundreds of corporate systems in South Korea are hit by the Chernobyl Virus. The Ministry of Information and Communication announces that it has received nearly two thousand complaints about the virus striking on the fourteenth anniversary of theChernobyl Nuclear Accident in the Ukraine.
2005
Universal Studios uploads a trailer for the film Serenity to the Internet as part of a viral marketing campaign. By April 28, the video tops the Yahoo Buzz Index. It is one of five short videos that will be released on the Internet, called the “R. Tam sessions,” in which the character River Tam is being educated in a facility only known as “The Academy.” The campaign marks the growing popularity of internet marketing in the film industry.
2011年4月26日，雅虎以2700万收购了IntoNow，一个新创科技公司。
2011年4月13日，凌晨消息，社交浏览器Flock的开发团队今天宣布，从4月26日起，他们将不再为Flock提供支持，这款风靡一时的浏览器将被放弃。
Flock开发团队称：“从2011年4月26日起，我们将不再为Flock浏览器提供支持。感谢全球用户的支持。建议Flock用户在未来几周内迁移到Chrome或Firefox浏览器。”
Flock成立于2005年，一度在全球拥有超过1000万用户。Flock浏览器通过一个工具栏整合Facebook、Twitter和 LinkedIn等社交网站，并具备了链接共享功能。通过独有的“社交搜索”功能，用户可以搜索好友发布的与特定关键词有关的消息。
2011年4月26日，美国创业企业孵化器公司Y Combinator今天宣布，该公司投资的本地商家互动服务TalkBin已经被谷歌收购，收购金额为3500万美元。
2011年4月26日，在线营销公司ValueClick Inc宣布，已收购了移动广告网络运营商Greystripe Inc，交易价格大约为7000万美元现金。
2011年4月26日，谷歌今天宣布，将对使用人数超过10人的企业应用套件Google Apps新客户开始收费，此举旨在从小型企业中获取更多利润，此前的收费门槛在50人。
2011年4月26日，Facebook今天正式向美国5个城市的用户推出了网络团购服务，团购的内容包括了葡萄酒品尝、音乐会门票等优惠券。Facebook也借此杀入了竞争日益白热化的网络团购市场。
2012年4月26日，沃尔玛网站Walmart.com今日称，该公司今天推出了一种名为“现金支付”(Pay with Cash)的新功能，允许用户在线下单购买商品，然后在附近的沃尔玛实体零售店进行支付。
