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One of the founders of the Google Company Sergey Brin will take part in the first commercial mission of Russian spaceship "Soyuz" in 2011.

According to the information of the publication Brin has become the new investor of Space Adventures Company that is engaged in arranging for space tourists to visit ISS. The founder of Google has invested 5 million dollars into the company, and this money will be reckoned as mission payment.

Yahoo! shareholders filed a suit against the committee of directors, claiming that its members were personally guilty of Microsoft refusal to purchase the search engine for 47.5 billion dollars. The plaintiffs consider one of the main reasons of refusal the costly system of firing, accepted by the top-management soon after receiving Microsoft's offer.

Microsoft offered over 40 billion dollars for Yahoo! at the end of January - beginning of February. The top-management however refused the offer claiming that the search engine was worth more.

The President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev urged to do everything possible to create Internet domain names in Cyrillic alphabet, reports "Interfax". He called it a "serious stuff" that would have a symbolic meaning for the Russian language and Cyrillic alphabet.

In the judgement of Medvedev Russia has pretty good chances of achieving the approval of the Internet community for assigning sites domain names in Cyrillic alphabet, RIA News note.

The first world producer of software production Microsoft is holding negotiations about purchase of the biggest Internet-portal and search engine of Czechia - Seznam.cz. The purchase of Seznam is a logical step towards strengthening of its position in the on-line market of Europe.

Seznam with the daily audience of 2.1 million visitors was founded by Lukakovich in 1996 and has become the first Czech search engine. The total amount of transaction will probably exceed 1 billion US dollars.

The warning primarily concerns American business people and officials who are going to attend the Olympics.

In the US it is thought that China will use the fact that a lot of representatives of the US Establishment will show up at the Olympics and will try to get access to secret information stored n the computers of officials and business people, or at least flood American computer network with viruses.

Walt Disney will lay out its multireel films on the Internet, according to Reuters. It is possible to watch everything on the official site of the Studio.

The films will be made available on the Internet after being shown on ABC channel, owned by Walt Disney.

The representaties of Disney emphasized that this offer is a part of the company's new strategy aimed at giving access to online entertainment and its elevation to qualitatively new and higher level.