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Microsoft to get at least 400 staffers from Yahoo

Yahoo will get an annual payment of $50 million from Microsoft under the companies' Internet-search agreement and transfer at least 400 employees to its partner. The annual payments will last through the first three years of the agreement, [...]

Posted On : Aug, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Yahoo Testing New Search Results Layout

A sign of things to come, perhaps? Based on this screenshot posted today on Flickr, Yahoo appears to be testing a new layout for its search results pages. It looks very much like the new Yahoo homepage that launched a couple weeks a [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Microsoft and Yahoo search for greater market share

The long anticipated 10-year deal may pose a serious challenge to Google’s dominance in the online search sector, writes Ciara O’Brien YAHOO AND Microsoft have joined forces in an attempt to challenge Google’s dominance in [...]

Posted On : Jul, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Google's Dominance Prompts Alliance Among Yahoo, Microsoft

Major IT companies in the U.S. are forming new alliances. The companies have been diversifying their operations and expanding into new areas of business, while building a unified front to take on Google, the leading online search portal. Ya [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Yahoo Gives In to Microsoft, Gives Up on Search

Ever since Microsoft (MSFT) made its $45 billion bid for Yahoo (YHOO) in early 2008, it was clear the software giant was serious about taking on arch-rival Google (GOOG) in the lucrative Internet search business. And now, after more than a [...]

Posted On : Jul, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Google open sources Wave gravy

As it strives to replace email, Google has open sourced two chunks of its new-age communications platform, Google Wave. Unveiled to a standing coder ovation at the Google I/O developer conference in late May, Google Wave is a (still-gestat [...]

Posted On : Jul, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Google tosses Android a Donut

Three months after Google released an "early look" at version 1.5 of its Android mobile operating system, a newer version has made its way into the eager hands of developers. Dubbed Donut, the new alpha version brings a raft of ne [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Yahoo! introduces redesigned home page, first since 2006

YAHOO! Inc., trying to add users and advertisers, will introduce a redesigned home page today, its first major redesign of the site since 2006. A test version of the page will debut in the US and spread to France, India and the UK in the n [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

SAN FRANCISCO GOOGLE WAVE JUNE MEETUP - 7/30/09

This meetup is postponed while we search for a suitable venue.  If you know of a free meetup place close to BART stations for up to 30+ people,  Please let me know. This meetup is open to everyone interest in Google Wave, leani [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Microsoft & Yahoo At It Again

At the time I am actually writing this column, there is no Microsoft/Yahoo deal in place; but by the time it is published, there may be. Industry experts have refused to let this potential deal go. After all, we want Google to have real com [...]

Posted On : Jul, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Microsoft, Intel Design Windows 7 to Be Speedy

Collaboration with Microsoft could allow the software giant's upcoming Windows 7 OS to take advantage of multithreaded and multicore Intel chips for faster application performance, according to an Intel official. Microsoft and Intel are wor [...]

Posted On : Jul, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Books causes concern

When the Google Books engineering director participated in a panel discussion at the Boston Public Library this week, his opening remarks focused on the search engine’s efforts to enable access for “every kid in Arkansas&rsquo [...]

Posted On : Jul, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Mozilla patches 11 serious bugs in older Firefox 3

Mozilla yesterday patched 11 vulnerabilities, 10 of them critical, in Firefox 3.0, the browser that has another few months to live. The update to Firefox 3.0.12 was the first since Mozilla launched the brand-new Firefox 3.5 at the end of Ju [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

100,000 Users Will Test Google Wave Collaboration Tool

Google said it intends to release a preview build of a new Web-based communication and collaboration tool by late September. Called Google Wave, the open-source tool will initially be offered to about 100,000 people who have volunteered to [...]