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Yahoo! Dumps CEO Terry
Semel By Search News Desk  Yahoo has dumped its CEO
Terry Semel--regarded
lately as a main barrier
to progress and thereby
preventing the company
from cutting
Google-addressing
partnerships and
acquisition bids.
Goodness knows Microsoft
might be on the phone
right now. The surprise
news h... Jun. 19, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 9,052 Replies: 1 | For Some Reason Google
Bought Linux Company
PeakStream By Search News Desk Seemingly out of left
field, Google has bought
PeakStream, the
two-year-old start-up
whose young tools make it
easier to program
multi-core processors by
kinda doing the
parallelizing for you if
you write to its APIs.
Then you can run the
program on a variety of
... Jun. 11, 2007 01:30 PM Reads: 11,812 Replies: 1 | Google Good for $750? By Search News Desk Spending on Internet ads
in the US hit $4.9
billion in Q1, up 26% and
a new high. Expectations
are it'll work out to
around $20 billion for
the year, up $3 billion.
Some punters think Google
is going to $750. It's
managed to stay safely
north of $500 now since
the first of the month. Jun. 10, 2007 07:30 PM Reads: 9,538 Replies: 1 | Google Buys FeedBurner
for $100 Million in Cash By Search News Desk Google has bought a site
called FeedBurner that
distributes and helps
manage blogs and RSS
feeds, tracks usage and
serves ads. It supports
721,000 feeds
representing upwards of
400,000 publishers.
Google will put more ads
on those feeds giving it
a new revenue str... Jun. 10, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 8,470 Replies: 2 | Salesforce To Sell Google
Ads By Search News Desk So Salesforce.com is
gonna be a distribution
channel for Google ads.
That's what their big,
widely leaked alliance is
all about; other things
like integrating Google's
e-mail and Google's
online productivity apps
into Salesforce could
reportedly follow. It was
tha... Jun. 10, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 8,309 Replies: 1 | Salesforce-Google
Anti-Microsoft Deal
Imminent By Search News Desk Salesforce has been
making noises that sound
like it'll announce that
anticipated, supposedly
anti-Microsoft deal with
Google on Tuesday June 5.
It's assumed to have
something to do with
Google's online
productivity apps. Jun. 4, 2007 12:15 PM Reads: 11,903 Replies: 2 | A Google Kind of Wedding
Present By Search News Desk Google has put $3.9
million in 23andMe Inc,
the pre-launch biotech
start-up of Google
co-founder Sergey Brin's
new bride Anne Wojcicki,
according to an SEC
filing Tuesday. Some of
the money was used to
repaid the $2.6 million
billionaire Brin advanced
Anne. Google... Jun. 2, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 8,525 Replies: 1 | Google-Salesforce
Whispers Get Louder By Search News Desk Those Wall Street
whispers about an
alliance between Google
and Salesforce.com we
told you about graduated
to the Wall Street
Journal, which is
expecting some of
Google's SaaS
productivity tools like
e-mail and instant
messaging to be mated
with Salesforce.com's... Jun. 2, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 7,062 Replies: 1 | FTC To Investigate
Google's Acquisition of
DoubleClick By Search News Desk Google of course
expressed confidence that
the acquisition will go
through and close by the
end of the year, using
Yahoo's proposed
acquisition of Right
Media, AOL's acquisition
of a controlling interest
in Adtech, WPP's
acquisition of 24/7 Media
and Microsoft's i... Jun. 2, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 5,488 Replies: 1 | Google Has Come Up with a
New Way to Terrorize
Microsoft By Search News Desk  Google, which has
recently emblazed its
shield with the new motto
'Search, Ads and Apps,'
has come up with a new
way to terrorize
Microsoft - a technology
for running programs like
Google's word processor
and spreadsheet offline
like, like Office. The
widgetry is ... Jun. 2, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 10,969 Replies: 6 | Microsoft's Chase After
Google Reverberates By Search News Desk Microsoft also supposedly
bid for DoubleClick and
was reportedly willing to
pay a billion dollars for
24/7, which London ad
agency WPP took out last
week for $649 million.
Yahoo is buying Right
Media for $680 million
and is rumored to be
interested in the British
... May. 30, 2007 07:45 PM Reads: 18,487 Replies: 1 | Edith Roman Associates
Hires Former Worldata
Executive as Vice
President By Search News Desk Christina Bashark has
joined Edith Roman
Associates as Vice
President of New
Business. Prior to Edith
Roman Associates she was
Senior Director of
Business Development at
Worldata responsible for
the acquisition of list
management accounts and
the successful
deve... May. 23, 2007 11:30 PM Reads: 5,512 | There's One Less
Batchelor Billionaire on
the Marriage Market,
Ladies By Search News Desk Google co-founder Sergey
Brin, worth an estimated
$16 billion, has quietly
gotten married in the
Bahamas to Anne Wojcicki,
the sister of the lady
and early Google employee
who rented her Menlo Park
garage to the
proto-Google in 1998 and
introduced the couple to
each other. May. 18, 2007 10:45 PM Reads: 7,073 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Buying Yahoo? By Search News Desk According to the press
Microsoft and Yahoo are
supposed to be trying to
figure out a
configuration that would
let them fight Google
together. The notion of
Yahoo's acquisition by
Microsoft for, oh, $50
billion advanced by the
New York Post last
Friday, the Murdoch... May. 12, 2007 02:30 PM Reads: 7,508 Replies: 1 | Linux File System Creator
Hans Reiser's Wife Still
Missing By Search News Desk Evidently Nina Reiser had
exquisitely bad taste in
men. Her estranged
husband stands accused of
her murder, his trial was
to have started this past
Monday, but not before
prosecutors were
reportedly forced to tell
the court that an
ex-lover of hers had
confessed t... May. 11, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 12,923 Replies: 2 | Google AdWords Attack
Documented in New Video
From Exploit Prevention
Labs By Search News Desk Security software
developer Exploit
Prevention Labs
(http://www.explabs.com/)
today released a video at
http://explabs.blogspot.c
om/2007/04/video.html
documenting how cyber
criminals are using
Google's popular AdWords
advertising system to
infect unsuspecting user... Apr. 28, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 6,718 | So, Google Plans To Make
Overheads of Its Push
onto Microsoft's Turf By Search News Desk  When exactly Eric didn't
say - a Google blog says
this summer - and he
didn't claim it would
replace PowerPoint. 'It
does not have all the
functionality nor is it
intended to have all the
functionality of
Microsoft,' he said, but
'it seems to be a better
fit to ho... Apr. 21, 2007 02:45 PM Reads: 11,551 Replies: 1 | Fetch Aims to Grap Deep
Web SEO/SEM Lead By Search News Desk The so-called 'Deep Web'
search arena is really
heating up, according to
Fetch. Several business
are already using the
company's technology to
turn the Web into a
usable database, the
company says. One example
deploying its technology
to provide detailed
personal ... Apr. 18, 2007 01:00 AM Reads: 6,789 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Wants Google's
Acquisition of
DoubleClick Blocked By Search News Desk  Spending money like a
sailor on shore leave,
Google has agreed to pay
$3.1 billion cash for
DoubleClick, the $150
million-a-year display
ad-targeting
cookie-carrying
activity-tracking Silicon
Alley firm that was also
being pursued by
Microsoft. It's the most
mon... Apr. 17, 2007 11:15 PM Reads: 11,116 Replies: 1 | Google to Acquire
DoubleClick By Search News Desk Google Inc. (NASDAQ:
GOOG) announced today a
definitive agreement to
acquire DoubleClick Inc.,
a global leader in
digital marketing
technology and services,
for US$3.1 billion in
cash from San
Francisco-based private
equity firm Hellman &
Friedman along with JMI
... Apr. 14, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 11,711 Replies: 1 | Google Pays Exorbitant
$3.1 Billion For a $100 -
$150 Million DoubleClick By Search News Desk SYS-CON's original story
reported: 'Google, which
is reportedly building
its own DoubleClick-like
ad-serving mechanism, is
now supposed to be trying
to buy DoubleClick since
Microsoft was reported to
be in talks with the
online media buyer. The
competition is suppos... Apr. 14, 2007 07:30 AM Reads: 10,518 Replies: 2 | Interest in DoubleClick
Reportedly Picks Up By Search News Desk Google, which is
reportedly building its
own DoubleClick-like
ad-serving mechanism, is
now supposed to be trying
to buy DoubleClick since
Microsoft was reported to
be in talks with the
online media buyer. The
competition is supposed
to make any deal more
expensive... Apr. 12, 2007 06:00 AM Reads: 9,684 Replies: 1 | Pshew, Google Finally
Finds Kaiser! By Search News Desk  For a while there it
looked like there was
something Google couldn't
find, namely its own
three-foot pet python
Kaiser, which it managed
lose somewhere in its
300,000-square-foot New
York City offices. The
maintenance staff finally
found the little guy safe
and so... Apr. 11, 2007 10:30 PM Reads: 8,937 Replies: 1 | Google's Googlebyte
Server Project Slated for
India By Search News Desk A secret server farm
project being sponsored
by Google in India will
require an enormous
investment, according to
a report filed earlier in
the week at industry
commentator's John C.
Dvorak's blogsite. The
server farm will
reportedly deliver an
entire googlebyte o... Apr. 4, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 13,597 Replies: 1 | Microsoft Reorgs Search By Search News Desk  Microsoft has combined
its search and AdCenter
online advertising
operations, units that
are supposed to compete
against Google, and named
the head of its Dynamics
CRM line Satya Nadella to
run it, reporting to
Kevin Johnson. This after
Microsoft reduced its
guida... Apr. 2, 2007 03:15 PM Reads: 6,843 Replies: 1 | Comcast Reportedly
Unhappy with Google By Search News Desk The Wall Street Journal
reported over the weekend
that Comcast, the largest
American cable company
and the second-largest
provider of high-speed
Internet access, is
unhappy with its search
deal with Google and is
talking to Microsoft
about substituting. The
paper ... Mar. 27, 2007 07:45 PM Reads: 5,870 Replies: 1 | Google To Be Eaten by
Wales? By Search News Desk Wikipedia creator Jimmy
Wales has commercial
designs and that
three-year-old for-profit
ad-based Wikia Inc
venture of his is aiming
to build an open source
search engine to take on
Google. He wants 5% of
the market according to
reports out of Tokyo
following a spe... Mar. 17, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 7,905 Replies: 1 | Viacom Sues Google &
YouTube for $1b By Search News Desk You've of course heard
that Viacom, which owns
MTV, Comedy Central and
Nickelodeon, among
others, has sued Google
and its unprofitable but
pricey $1.65 billion
YouTube acquisition for
damages of upwards of a
billion dollars and an
injunction. It charges
them with ... Mar. 17, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 6,185 | dtSearch Announces New
Release By Search News Desk  dtSearch announced
Version 7.4 of the
dtSearch product line.
dtSearch products
instantly search
terabytes of text across
a desktop, network,
Internet or Intranet. The
dtSearch product line
also lets developers add
dtSearch?s terabyte
indexer search
functionality... Mar. 17, 2007 01:30 PM Reads: 7,388 Replies: 1 | Google Makes its Move on
Microsoft Office By Search News Desk Google Thursday planted
its flag on the shores of
Microsoft's Fortress
Office, finally opening
up shop to sell the
anticipated commercial
version of its
comparatively rudimentary
web-based productivity
software, aiming it at
the big enterprise, the
source of much ... Feb. 23, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 11,933 | Google Threatens To Move
Against Office By Search News Desk Google's threat to Office
is supposed to be
unleashed 'soon'
according to a story in
Monday's Boston Globe.
Google VP and general
manager of the enterprise
David Girouard in town
giving a speech to the
Massachusetts Technology
Leadership Council said
that Google's... Feb. 2, 2007 03:15 PM Reads: 7,293 Replies: 1 | IBM & Yahoo Offer
Businesses AJAX-Based
Free Search By Search News Desk IBM is going to offer
free, downloadable,
entry-level search
software that looks like
Yahoo to businesses so
they can find information
on the web or stored
internally. It's called
IBM OmniFind Yahoo!
Edition and it can riffle
through a maximum of
500,000 documents... Jan. 31, 2007 10:15 PM Reads: 9,838 Replies: 1 | Apple Delays 10-K By Search News Desk Apple is going to be late
handing in its an annual
report to the SEC because
of its backdating
investigation, which has
so far resulted in its
ex-CFO Fred Anderson
leaving the board and
casting its ex-general
counsel in a bad light.
Apple's year ended
September 30. Dec. 24, 2006 09:45 PM Reads: 6,610 | Google's New Glueware By Search News Desk Google is going to try to
make itself stickier as
far as employee
recruitment and retention
goes. It is currently
hiring or trying to hire
a reported 1,500 people a
quarter. Anyway,
beginning in April it
will have an internal
market where its
non-executive staff c... Dec. 16, 2006 03:00 PM Reads: 7,333 | New AJAX-Powered B2B
Search Directory to be
Launched in Hong Kong By Search News Desk Global Source Directory,
a Hong Kong based
Internet start-up, is
launching a new
business-to- business
information platform in
December. Using the
latest Web technology,
the site will connect
product suppliers and
service providers to
customers both locally
and ... Nov. 28, 2006 08:00 PM Reads: 6,341 | xFX JumpStart Announces
DHTML Menu Builder 4.20 By Search News Desk xFX JumpStart announced
the release of DHTML menu
builder 4.20. This major
upgrade is the web site
navigation solution that
allows the design and
implementation of all
kinds of web menus in a
completely visual and
friendly way. Web site
designers and developers
ar... Nov. 24, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 6,726 | Google, Yahoo and
Microsoft Announce
Support for Sitemaps 0.90 By Search News Desk In the first joint and
open initiative to
improve the Web crawl
process for search
engines, Google, Yahoo
and Microsoft, have
announced support for
Sitemaps 0.90
(www.sitemaps.org), a
free and easy way for
webmasters to notify
search engines about
their websites... Nov. 18, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 11,342 | AOL Acquires Relegence
Corporation By Search News Desk AOL has announced that it
has acquired financial
news and information
search technology
company, The Relegence
Corporation of New York,
NY. AOL's acquisition
agreement with
privately-held Relegence
was signed and closed on
Monday, November 6th,
2006. Financial ter... Nov. 11, 2006 02:30 AM Reads: 7,277 | Microsoft Announces
Availability Of Virtual
Earth 3D By Search News Desk Microsoft has announced
U.S. availability of
Virtual Earth 3D, a new
online mapping interface
that is part of the Live
Search offering,
providing consumers with
a three-dimensional
experience to search,
browse and explore the
real world online. Nov. 7, 2006 01:00 AM Reads: 6,578 | Google Launches New
Mobile Application For
Speedier Access To Gmail By Search News Desk Google has announced the
release of an innovative
new mobile client, Gmail
for mobile devices. This
freely downloadable Java
application delivers
Gmail users the look and
feel of Gmail through a
fast, feature-rich
interface that's
optimized for handheld
devices. W... Nov. 3, 2006 05:00 AM Reads: 6,725 |
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