EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

Microsoft's Popfly mashup tool is the latest casualty of the recession with the Redmond giant announcing it will pull the plug on the service in August.

Oddly, even the games and mashups that users created with the tool will be destroyed.

Also today, SAP talks software-as-a-service challenges and onions become a biofuel source...

-- Ry Crozier

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By Rosalie Marshall | July 18, 2009

Casualty of the recession.

By Phil Muncaster | July 18, 2009

Known flaw in the browser's Just-in-time JavaScript compiler.

By Rosalie Marshall | July 18, 2009

Can't make money out of the hosted offering.

By Ian Williams | July 18, 2009

Lack of communication endangering business.

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Another use for the vegetable.

By David Neal | July 18, 2009

Promises speed and efficiency.

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