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Article | 19/10/2011 Ballmer feels lucky Microsoft didn't buy Yahoo in 2008
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer feels intensely fortunate that his company's US$44 billion bid for Yahoo back in 2008 never materialized.
Article | 19/10/2011 Yahoo profits sink on weak ad sales
Yahoo reported steep declines in revenue and profit for the third quarter, pulled down by weak ad sales and the failure of its search partnership with...
Article | 19/10/2011 Foursquare aims for more automated content push
Foursquare wants its mobile geolocation-based application to increasingly require less and less manual use and instead work in the background as peopl...
Article | 18/10/2011 Levinsohn: Yahoo is doing fine
Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo's executive vice president for the Americas, on Monday downplayed the notion that the recent firing of CEO Carol Bartz has the c...
Article | 15/10/2011 Web 2.0 Summit to focus on value, pitfalls of online data
This year's Web 2.0 Summit will focus on the critical role that online data plays in the Internet economy and on how its use and misuse can make the d...
Article | 15/10/2011 Bing and Yahoo sponsored results lead to hard-to-remove rootkit
Searching for Flash Player on Bing and Yahoo can lead to rogue pages distributing a hard-to-remove rootkit, according to security researchers from ant...
Article | 14/10/2011 Google grows earnings, revenue in Q3 as ad sales accelerate
Google grew its sales and profits in the third quarter, exceeding Wall Street's expectations along the way, as the search company's advertising busine...
Article | 14/10/2011 Lawmakers disagree on need for online privacy legislation
While representatives of the online advertising industry questioned whether new laws are needed to protect consumer privacy online, several U.S. lawma...
Article | 12/10/2011 Neustar acquires Targusinfo for better analytics
Neustar is acquiring privately owned Targusinfo for approximately US$650 million in cash in a bid to expand its real-time information and analytics se...
Article | 12/10/2011 Study: Many websites 'leaking' personal info to other firms
Many top websites share their visitors' names, usernames or other personal information with their partners without telling users and, in some cases, w...
Article | 12/10/2011 FairSearch.org urges AGs to tackle Google over antitrust
<a href="http://www.fairsearch.org/">FairSearch.org</a>, a coalition of companies critical of Google's business practices, is urging all 50 U.S. state...
Article | 6/10/2011 Drive-by download attack on Facebook used malicious ads
Antivirus vendor Trend Micro has recently detected a drive-by download attack on Facebook that used malicious advertisements to infect users with malw...
Article | 28/09/2011 Lawmakers want investigation of supercookies
Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate the use of so-called supercookies on many websites, with the two su...
Article | 23/09/2011 EU court backs use of rival trademarks in search advertising
Companies using their rivals' trademarks as keywords for search advertising can sleep a little easier following a European Court of Justice statement ...
Article | 22/09/2011 Senators question if Google has biased search results
Several U.S. senators accused Google of giving search preferences to its own suite of services over competitors, but executive chairman Eric Schmidt d...