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Troubled US web portal firm Yahoo! is in negotiations to buy Time Warner Inc.'s AOL business, the financial news agency Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
Yahoo!, which earlier in the week rejected a 47.5-billion-dollar takeover bid by Microsoft in a move that saw the resignation of CEO Jerry Yang, is according to Bloomberg bidding for...
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Jerry Yang, who helped kick start the internet revolution in 1995 as co-founder of web portal Yahoo, is stepping down as the company's chief executive.
The announcement by the ailing internet giant came after months of falling revenue, fierce proxy battles and a series of botched negotiations that scuttled what now seems to have been...
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 Google has recently announced that it will become a single sign-on provider using OpenID solutions. Google users will login with their Google account information when signing up from new accounts on other sites. The giant company is not the first one to proceed in this way. Microsoft and Yahoo have already adopted the same strategy of...
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 Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft, along with several human rights groups have announced the launch of the Global Network Initiative: Protecting and Advancing Freedom of Expression and Privacy in the Information and Communication Technology Industry (GNI). The agreement comes after giants as Google and Yahoo faced criticism for working with...
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 Google has been blocked by Russia’s antitrust authorities in the attempt of acquisitioning online advertising firm ZAO Begun from Rambler Media for $140 million. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has yet to give an official reason behind this decision. A statement from the agency referred to a regulation designed to preserve...
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 Wednesday night, in-browser social network Me.dium took the next step in developing its service as it launched a new social search tool. The new system, called Crowd Rank, combines regular Yahoo results with separately obtained social ones, taken from Me.dium users. According to David Mandell, Me.dium founder, the novelty of Wednesday’s...
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 On Tuesday, Google launched the beta version of its online tool called Lively. The application can be used for creating personalized 3D social spaces on various websites. According to Niniane Wang, Engineering Manager at Google, Lively enables users to put together their very own characters (avatars) and to create rooms, that can later...
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 According to The New York Times, Google is working alongside Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, in order to produce a new animated series that would be distributed online through the former’s advertising system (AdSense).AdSense is to be used for syndicating the program (Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy) to numerous...
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 On Thursday, Yahoo Inc. officials talked about the two new e-mail domains the company has launched: ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Although it may seem hard to believe, good account names are getting more and more difficult to find, especially on the big domains. As John Kremer, Yahoo Mail vice president, said, the company is well aware...
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 On Wednesday, CBS Corp announced that it had reached a deal with Yahoo Inc., according to which its web videos will be carried by the latter. This means that Yahoo would be part of the CBS Audience Network and would join a rather special group that brings together some of the biggest names out there, including Google Inc's YouTube,...
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 At a search advertising conference in Seattle, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, stated that, in order to gain in on Google, considerable effort is being put by the company’s marketing team into "fixing Microsoft's search image." This comes after Microsoft’s decision at the beginning of...
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 On Monday, Facebook announced that a "significant part" of its platform code will be released as open-source. This comes one year after the launch of Facebook Platform, which gives third party developers the chance to write programs that work inside the social-networking site. More than 400,000 developers have taken advantage...
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 It seems that AOL has decided to support OpenSocial. This piece of information came out on Wednesday, at the Google I/O conference, during the speech of Google Director of Engineering David Glazer. OpenSocial was first announced by Google in October as a response to the multitude of already existing networks and future strategies...
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 Ask.com and Lexico Publishing Group, owner of the three very popular websites Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com, have announced that an agreement was reached and thus the first will acquire the latter for an undisclosed price. There is however some available information that can roughly point out what the company is worth:...
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 The next big thing in online social networking is being prepared by Google. On Monday, company officials presented a new free service that is to enable any website to present visitors with the features of a socially-oriented site. With the help of Google's Friend Connect, any web page, regardless of its contents, can be used to create...
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At IBM's Business Partner Leadership Conference on Thursday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt reinforced his stand with regard to social networks, saying that he continued to consider them too closed. "If it's not searchable by Google, it's not open, and open is best for the consumer," Mr. Schmidt said.Obviously, his opinion does not...
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 On Tuesday AOL agreed to buy search software maker Sphere Source, for an undisclosed sum. Sphere Source has raised in its three years of activity about $4 million in venture funding from companies such as Hearst Publishing, Trident Capital, True Ventures and also from About.com founder, Scott Kurnit. Since its launch, it has gone through...
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 On Tuesday, Yahoo’s Flickr photo website has added a video sharing feature in the attempt to get some of YouTube’s action. However, Flickr’s take on online video files is different, as the site’s users can post their videos along with pictures and, through security settings, have control over who watches the media."Flickr is a very...
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 Yahoo Inc was given three weeks to accept Microsoft Corp's
$31-a-share cash-and-stock offer. In the case that the first should fail to
comply, the latter may turn its $40 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. hostile and
lower its offer.
"If we are forced to take an offer directly to your
shareholders, that action will have an...
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 At the CTIA wireless trade show in Las Vegas today, Yahoo! Launched version 2.0 of oneSearch, their mobile search service, first unveiled in January 2007. Although this new version won’t be available until summer, BlackBerry users are given the chance to try out the service’s new voice recognition engine. The technology can be found...
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 On Monday, Yahoo is to launch a new website which has been especially
designed for women. The information found on the site, called “Shine”, is
divided into nine different categories, ranging from Fashion and Beauty to
Parenting.
The reason for putting such an idea into practice is given
by the fact that more than 40 million women...
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 Google vs.
Yahoo! Will the continual battle between these two powerful Web companies get
to an end? This could happen very soon, as Yahoo announced recently that it had
adopted some of the most significant standards of the so-called “semantic Web.”
Semantic Web
represents a brand new technology that is widely seen as the next...
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 Yahoo is allegedly stepping up efforts to block a hostile takeover by Microsoft after it rejected the latter's Feb. 1 bid as undervaluing.Microsoft made an unsolicited proposal on February 1st, to acquire the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for 31 dollars per share consideration, which represents a total equity value of around...
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 China's top search engine, Baidu.com, will be sued by a second Chinese music company, R2G, which runs a music distribution business, the Wall Street Journal reports.In January, the Music Copyright Society of China filed suit against the popular search engine claiming Baidu allows Internet users to download and stream illegitimate copies...
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 In an interview with Sarah Meyers on the site Pop17, YouTube
co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Steve Chen said that the video sharing
site plans to launch a live streaming service this year.
"We'll do it this year. Live video is something we've
always wanted to do but haven't had the resources to do it correctly, but...
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 Yahoo Inc announced Tuesday it would launch a new service
called Yahoo Buzz, which will allow users to vote their favorite content from
sites across the Internet and bring them on Yahoo’s main page, Reuters informs.
In this way, Yahoo’s homepage, which is one of the most
trafficked websites on the Internet, will compile the...
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 Microsoft
announced recently that it was currently developing a highly innovative tool,
which will allow people measure the effectiveness of online ad campaigns. Called
Engagement ROI, the new reporting tool will be part of Microsoft’s online
advertising platform. The software maker said that Engagement ROI would really
be able to...
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 Microsoft announced yesterday the
departure of several top executives, including Steve Berkowitz and others. Despite
the fact that Microsoft loses some of its key executives, the software maker
has no other choice than keep going. Thus, the company announced also the
promotion of more than a dozen top employees.
So, among the...
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 According to The Wall Street Journal, which cited an unspecified source, the board of Yahoo! is planning to turn down Microsoft’s unsolicited offer made earlier this week in order to acquire the California based company for 31 dollars per share.The source, who wanted its identity to be withheld because the talks inside Yahoo were not...
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 Google, IBM, Yahoo, Microsoft and
VeriSing are five of the most powerful and famous tech companies at the moment,
so the fact that they have all joined the OpenID Foundation Board make’s the
organization’s dream more likely to come true. The five companies are expected
to help OpenID Foundation Board build a single-sign-on service...
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 The music industry has just
started a new battle against piracy and companies allowing it, as music
companies announced on Wednesday they filled lawsuits against China’s popular
web sites Baidu.com and Sohu.com, which were accused of aiding illegal online
music pirates.
According to the IFPI, or the International
Federation of...
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 Advertising will never die, as
advertisers are continually planning brand new methods to make people buy
products and services. Advertising won’t die as long as mankind’s spirit remains
as we know it today: we are curious, forever looking for newer, better, smarter
stuff, always ready to exchange something for another thing and so...
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 Yahoo announced recently that it
was ending its built-in music service, which would be next handled by Rhapsody America, the
on-demand subscription music service run by Viacom and RealNetworks. This move
comes as part of the company’s overhaul of its online music offerings.
Yahoo previously announced that
it would replace its...
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 Microsoft Corp., the biggest software maker in the world, announced on Thursday afternoon that it had made an unsolicited bid of 44.6 billion dollars in order to acquire Yahoo Inc, the Internet search engine that might help Microsoft reinforce its position on the web search and advertising market.The statement that the company released...
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 The US media reported on Tuesday that Yahoo Inc. is planning to announce a big action of job cutting after the quarterly report would be revealed on January 29.According to the Bloomberg financial news agency, Yahoo would cut around 700 jobs of the 14.000 employees that the company currently has, after rumors earlier said that it plans...
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 Yahoo! announced yesterday that
starting January 30 it would support OpenID Foundation’s project, which means
that its own users will be able to access many other web sites using their
Yahoo names and passwords. Through this move Yahoo will join almost 10,000 other
web sites that already decided to support the OpenID Foundation’s...
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 Japan's largest provider of mobile phone services, NTT DoCoMo, might incorporate some of Google’s functions and applications into its i-mode network service, according to the Nikkei business daily on Tuesday.DoCoMo users can expect beginning with the next spring to be able to access Google searches, email, scheduling and photo-saving...
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 The youth social network web site Bebo has signed up to Google’s OpenSocial widget platform, launching Open Media, a system that allows content owners to post videos from their own shows by using their own players and advertising.Bebo is trying to keep up with market leaders such as MySpace and Facebook Inc., as it wants to add popular...
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 In the case of the two jailed Chinese dissidents that have charged Yahoo Inc. of committing human rights abuses by helping China with information that led to the arrest of the two men, the families of Wang and Shi reached a deal with Yahoo, according to a statement released by Yahoo.The company will provide the two families legal,...
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 China has recently become a real
phenomenon: in real life and also on the Internet. The extra-protective
Communist country has started to simply block any web site that seems to be
hurt the Communist party’s feelings. The Chinese people are protected by all
means not to be harmed by the evil outside world that believes in that...
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 Despite an American blog has
posted that the users from Shanghai and Beijing have not been
able to access Google Inc.’s search engine on Friday, the users themselves have
just denied the news. They have said that they have been able to successfully access
Google’s search engine, as well as other search engines, and that the...
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 All kind of methods of fraud and
phishing attacks are threatening all day every day the powerful web sites and
their users. The more visited, popular and powerful a web site is, the more it
attracts all kinds of hackers and bad persons that are trying to exploits every
little weakness if they have something to gain from it. Today,...
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The Internet giant company Yahoo!
Inc. has recently signed a deal with the Spanish company Telefonica SA in a
move that could bring Yahoo! Inc. one step ahead its rival Google Inc. Yahoo! and
Google are competing one against each other in the ultimate race from the high
tech industry, that of bringing Internet searching to the...
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 With MySpace, Facebook, and even
Bebo, having become already the most powerful social networking web sites, it is
quite difficult for a new such web site to launch on this market that has gained
already its known leaders! Still, Yahoo Inc. is not quite a start up on the
Internet, and the new social networking service that the company...
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 BuzzTracker represents a famous
news aggregator that combines the smart editorial judgment with complex
algorithms for aggregate the web site’s content from all over the Web to allow
the users to deeply delve into the specific topics they are interested in. On
the 14th of September Yahoo! Inc. has announced that it buys
BuzzTracker...
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 The famous company Yahoo Inc. has
announced today that it is to sell display ads for one of the most popular social
networking web sites. The deal that Yahoo Inc. has signed with Bebo Inc.
represents the first one that Yahoo has ever had with a social networking web
site. However, this move is welcomed and represents as well an...
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 Facebook’s recently announced
Public Search Feature is seen by the social networking web site as a tool of
boosting advertising revenues, but what will Facebook do if the most part of
its users will delete their profiles because of the privacy concerns the new
feature brings along? Despite its popularity the famous social networking...
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 Only weeks since Yahoo hit its
rivals with the unlimited storage feature for its free web mail service, the
company has now made another surprising announcement: starting with the weeks
to come Yahoo’s online mail service will be capable of offering brand new
options. Maybe the most important such feature will be the email to SMS...
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 We were just writing about
Google’s latest challenging Microsoft through offering Sun Microsystems’s
StarOffice suite as a free option for Microsoft’s famous Office suite. And it
seems that Microsoft won’t wait too much for returning Google’s competitive
move.
The company has just announced
that it is to increase the amount of...
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 After Google has already
announced that it is to retain its users’ cookies for only two years, it seems
that Microsoft Corp. and other important companies have adopted the same move
for calming down the spirits. There have been many voices and groups of people
who have been pressuring these companies for finding such a solution...
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 For many of us Google is still a
myth. A company that owns some of the most creative and brilliant people on
Earth! – would common web surfers say and they wouldn’t be in fact wrong. Even
for these common fellows one of their most beautiful dreams is to be someday
part of this great company, which seems to be the ultimate the...
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 The most popular photo sharing site on the Web is now moving towards a truly international audience, by releasing a version of the site in no less than 7 different languages.The main reason for this change is the affluence of foreign users outside the US or Canada, who don’t always speak English. Flickr was founded three years ago by...
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digital music retailer, Rhapsody America, is the most recent company to adopt MP3 downloads without any copy restraints
and represents a threat to the supremacy of Apple Inc.'s iTunes.
Rhapsody will be supplied with such songs by four major
record labels, Universal, EMI, Sony and Warner, while only one major label
provides...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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 Israeli company Fring has made its VoIP application (also
known as Fring) available on the iPhone and on the iPod Touch. Users will now
gain access to Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, ICQ and SIP (both voice and
chat) plus Twitter, Yahoo and AIM (chat only).
On one hand, Skype hasn’t been able to come up with a iPhone
version...
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 SanDisk Corporation, the multinational company that designs and markets
flash memory card products, will sign an agreement to purchase the MP3 player
company MusicGremlin. The purchase cost has not yet been disclosed.
The New York
based MusicGremlin has become known for promoting a portable digital music
player and a subscription...
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Artists have recently received some very
good financial news. Following the decision of a New York rate court, thousands of music
composers and writers may receive as much as $100 million for the online
coverage that their work has recorded.
The online services affected by the court’s
ruling are Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks...
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 Yahoo Inc. announced that it will launch a new social network on Monday aimed to help college students to get career help, created by a young Yahoo unit charged with advancing product innovation.The California company, named Sunnyvale, is releasing Kickstart, which was created for students, alumni and recruiters, in order to gather...
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 According to a report of RealtyTrac, a leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, the foreclosure filings during March have been reported on 234.685 properties in the United States, five percent more than a month before and a 57 percent increase from the same month a year before."The March numbers show that overall...
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 Following 13 years of Gates reigning over Forbes’ richest men on Earth list, it is now time to welcome Warren Buffet as the holder of the biggest fortune in the world. Estimated at around 62 billion dollars, Forbes announced on Wednesday.Microsoft’s co-founder slipped to the third position in the elite list despite the fact that he got 2...
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 The U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, compiled by RealtyTrac, found that foreclosure filings rose 36 percent in August from July and 115 percent from a year ago, hit by declines in once-hot housing markets such as California, Nevada and Florida. The number of foreclosure filings this August was 243,947, the highest since RealtyTrac began...
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 A new version of the Mac OS X’
instant messaging application, Adium 1.1, has just been released, although its
latest version was launched just about a month ago. However, the team behind
the open source, multi-protocol instant messaging popular application has
claimed that version 1.1 has been in works for over a year.
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 Saturday night Yahoo declined another agreement with Microsoft and billionaire financer Carl Icahn. The offer also comprised stipulations that would have made compulsory a substantial restructuring of the corporation. This is not the first time Icahn has made such a far-fetched proposal.The American public corporation Yahoo said the...
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 Microsoft announced Friday
that it would finish its attempt to create an online library of the world’s
books. The two projects Live Search Books and Live Search Academics have
already been cancelled, as Satya Nadella Microsoft, senior vice president of
search, announced on a company blog.
This announcement came as a big shock...
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 Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie, who succeeded Bill Gates on the job in 2006, said in an interview with the Financial Times published today that Yahoo's technology will not be absorbed right away after a probable merger."Technology companies, if they dive in and just smash things together for smashing them together's...
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 As the Internet and high
technology are charming everyday more and more users and fans, it is not
surprising that the former traditional fields go online too. E-learning and
e-teaching, the chat and e-mail, Google Earth, Second Life and the online games
and all the other Internet applications represent the current coordinates of
the...
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 Kevin J. Martin’s new rules
haven’t come into action yet, but if so, the world of the United States’ telecom will be
revolutionized. Secondly, Google Inc. and other high-tech companies will score
an important victory over the broadband providers, as much of the companies’
demands have been incorporated in Federal Communications...
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San Francisco - The US Justice Department is preparing an anti-trust case aimed at challenging an advertising pact between Google and Yahoo, according to reports Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal and other US media.
Google and Yahoo announced the deal in June, but said they would delay implementation until October to allow regulators...
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 Getty, photographic agency, has closed a deal with Flickr, Yahoo’s photograph-sharing website, that will enable the former to access the latter’s pictures for pursuing its commercial purposes.Flickr members will be given the chance to choose whether or not they want their work to be commercially used; Getty would have to pay for each...
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 According to The New York Times, Google is working alongside Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, in order to produce a new animated series that would be distributed online through the former’s advertising system (AdSense).AdSense is to be used for syndicating the program (Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy) to numerous...
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 Several marketing executives have expressed their concern that the new agreement between Google and Yahoo could lead to an increase in advertising rates, and at the same time, to a diminishment of their control over the locations in which their ads are shown. The 48-month paid advertiser deal was announced on Thursday. Through it, Yahoo...
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 Yahoo has announced it has closed a 48-month paid advertiser deal with Google. According to the agreement, Yahoo access to Google's AdSense will be allowed, thus enabling content advertising programs for the U.S. and Canada.The contract comes with the posibility of two three-year renewals, if agreed upon by both companies. The first year...
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 Microsoft released a statement on Sunday, saying that it is further aiming to “improve and expand its online services and advertising business,” hinting at the possibility of raising another deal with Yahoo! Inc., after it had previously withdrew its proposal to acquire the owner of the popular Web search engine.Under the new deal,...
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 On Saturday, Microsoft has decided to take back its offer to acquire Yahoo for $42.3 billion. After three months of continuous negotiations, the two companies could not reach an agreement, although unofficial sources said that they came close to it at the end of this week. It all started on February 1st when Microsoft made a proposal to...
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 Microsoft released a statement on Wednesday, as a reaction to Yahoo’s announcement that it reached a deal with Google for advertising space, which would potentially turn into a bigger partnership.The move made by Yahoo is another step into trying to avoid a hostile takeover by Microsoft, which is using all methods into persuading Yahoo’s...
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 Rival companies Google and Yahoo,
along with the popular social networking web site MySpace, joined forces and
formed the OpenSocial Foundation. The three companies announced the deal on
Tuesday, in a move that will add the needed support to the non-profit
organization born to support the OpenSocial project Google initiated last...
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 Yahoo and Microsoft are working at the same time, but
separately, in the attempt to facilitate the use of social networks even more.
Thus, on one hand, Yahoo is teaming up with Google and MySpace
with the goal of forming a foundation called OpenSocial. According to CNET News.com,
the purpose of this new independent non-profit...
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 The European Commission approved Google’s 3.1 billion dollars acquisition of online advertiser DoubleClick on Tuesday, which is expected to allow the web search leader to implement its advertising expansion plan that was on hold for almost an year.The deal was previously approved by the United States Federal Trade Commission in December...
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