Google came out with an email yesterday to all Google Analytics users that Google Analytics will be launching its’ new version soon. Among other things, the new version of Google Analytics will include…

Yesterday we lost an iconic figure in Steve Jobs. He lost a battle with cancer and passed away at the young age of 56. In Steve’s 56 years on planet earth, he changed the world from a technology perspective in unimaginable ways. Steve Jobs’ contributions through Apple and Pixar have brought us light years ahead in the desktop computing and animated movie industries.

Steve, you will be sorely missed.

Groupon, the online coupon giant based in Chicago who reportedly rejected a $6 billion USD offer from Google several weeks ago, has just bought Grouper, an Israeli company, for an estimated $15 million USD. This is impressive since the initial investment of the business was in the tens of thousands of Sheqels, provided by Grouper’s 3 founders: Dori Hilleli, Dotan Stav and Yuval Karjevski.

The three founders are each expected to earn $4 million each, while Ido Pollak, CEO of the New Media division at RGE Group, may get $1-2 million. Still, that’s no small change.

Groupon today has secured close to a billion dollars ($950 million) in funding, Business Wire reports.

Groupon intends to use the funds to increase global expansion, invest in technology, and provide liquidity for employees and early investors. A number of VC (venture capital) firms and late-stage investors will be financing Groupon.

This past year Groupon has been dubbed “the fastest growing company ever” by Forbes Magazine and “America’s best website” by one of Groupon’s TV commercials.

WWF works very hard for the preservation of nature, and its fauna and flora. They’ve been doing this for some time using various campaigns. Some more effective than the others. The newest campaign being launched by the organization is the project “Save the WWF, save a tree” which promotes the creation of an ecologically correct file format, the “. WWF”, which cannot be printed, barring the unnecessary use of impressions.

China doesn’t stop surprising us. It is well known that they are considered the second “richest” country in the world and, of course, we all remember their little problem with Google. But this time, something REALLY serious took place. And it wasn’t good. It affected the US military and some civilian information. In a recent report, cybercrime experts have found proof that China hijacked the Internet for 18 minutes last April. China absorbed 15% of the traffic from US military and civilian networks, as well as from other countries. So far without explanation.

In a new report on its blog , network security firm Arbor Networks has revealed that the giant Google now amazingly represents 6.4 per cent of total global internet traffic through its sites Google Search, YouTube, Orkut, Adwords, Analytics and Gmail. Arbor Networks also added that if Google were an ISP (Internet Service Provider), it would be the second largest ISP in the world. “Keep in mind that these numbers represent increased market share — Google is growing considerably faster than overall Internet volumes which are already increasing 40-45 per cent each year,” the company explained.