No, despite its previous statement that it has “moved on” after being rebuffed by Yahoo!, in reaction to billionaire investor activist Carl Icahn’s request of taking over the Yahoo! board through hostile bidding, Microsoft remains as interested...
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The first quarter results of the worlds most popular online search engine reveal that even the slowing US economy does not have an adverse effect on its revenue. Google was up by a 30% in the first quarter compared to last year as its first quarter...
In the Troy of the internet networking industry, Yahoo seems to be the very sought after Helen, pursued by two titans, Microsoft and Google, one trying to convince her to marry and the other trying to deter that. The proposed alliance between Yahoo...
Not being satisfied of its monopoly in the system software market, Microsoft wants to establish its hegemony in the online services sector also. Despite spending heavily on building its own search engine and advertising technology and even acquiring...
Google's $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick stands amidst controversy as European Commission competition authorities refused to approve the deal.The commission, which rules on antitrust issues for the 27 countries in the European Union, said the...
Nokia is expanding its business by acquiring the world's leading provider of mapping software, Navteq. Nokia announced that the company is ready to but Navteq for about US$8.1 billion in cash.
One month ago, to grab Navteq and boost its software...
Yahoo Inc.'s woes don't seem to end with the changing position, as its second-quarter profit slipped slightly while revenue growth remained lackluster.
Company's quarterly earning decreased by 2 percent as it reported $160.6 million, or 11 cents...
See, the point here is pretty simple, (I have mentioned earlier) no need to fear Google as it only expands the market and creating broader audience base.
If it's not Rowling and likes books don't get this amount of publicity and neither it is...
Surprise!
Yahoo and MSN can breathe easy.
At the recent web2.0 conference, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said he wanted to get one thing straight:
We fundamentally believe in sending people to other Websites. We believe in giving people access...
We all know the famous founders: Bill Gates and Paul Allen, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and so on. While no one disputes that the founders first come up with the idea and get things rolling, but the later, along comes a new...
Google and Sun Microsystems are joining hands to bring Openofice to google users.It began with its hiring of Joerg Heilig, former director of software engineering at Sun.
Here's what one makes of Google's attack on Microsoft's money-making machine,...
Issues such as poor growth of Yahoo Inc. compared to its archrival Google and towering salary of Yahoo's chairman Terry Semel are likely to be hotly debated subjects in Tuesday's annual shareholders meet. Semel, who once famously claimed that Yahoo...
In a brazen move, the top antitrust official at the US Justice Department last month had advised state prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by Google against Microsoft, according to a latest report by the New York Times. The...
The latest deal to happen in the already hot online ad business saw Microsoft announce its decision to buy aQuantive on Friday. Microsoft Corp. said that it has agreed to acquire aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion. The all cash deal paying $66.50 per...
WPP, the world's second-largest advertising group, has decided to acquire 24/7 Real Media, the US digital marketing company, for $649 million, the company said in its announcement. The takeover has marked the continuing the trend of consolidation...
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