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 Google co-founder and billionaire Larry Page in Washington to speak at the think tank where Google CEO Eric Schmidt is chairman of the board - and apparently meet with government officials too - claimed that a Microsoft-Yahoo merger would 'monopolize online communications, stifle innov...May. 23, 2008 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,821 |
 Between the time corporate raider Carl Icahn notified Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock Thursday morning to expect a proxy fight for control of the company if Yahoo didn't crawl on its belly to get Microsoft to buy it and Yahoo sent a non-answer back, Yahoo stock closed up 2.25% at $27.75 on ...May. 20, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,252 |
 Zoho is gonna try rustling some of Google's prized Apps users. It's designed a unified login to encourage Google and Yahoo visitors to try Zoho applications using the user names and passwords they use with their Google and Yahoo accounts.May. 20, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,229 |
Microsoft issued a short, murky statement Sunday afternoon saying it has suggested a limited alignment with Yahoo. It does not explain its proposal. Perhaps it's thinking along the lines of the deal Yahoo is supposed to be negotiating with Google, perhaps a partial acquisition (perhaps... May. 19, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,354 Replies: 1 |
 Corporate raider Carl Icahn started his proxy fight for control of Yahoo this morning, beginning with the classic Icahn opening, the letter of reproach to the Yahoo board telling them they have acted 'irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and Microsoft.'May. 16, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,609 |
Late Thursday Yahoo released the text of the letter it sent to Carl Icahn telling him he's misguided and that the current Yahoo board knows better what good for the company. It repeats what Yahoo has said before - that it is willing to sell for the right price, which lately has been $3... May. 16, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,083 |
Zoho announced that it is welcoming Google and Yahoo users with a unified login designed to encourage those users to try Zoho applications. Now, Google and Yahoo users who visit Zoho can simply log into Zoho using the usernames and passwords associated with their Google and Yahoo accou... May. 14, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,681 |
'Wikipedia is a great way for us to showcase Powerset's functionality while giving people a faster time to satisfaction,' said Barney Pell, co-founder and CTO of Powerset, as his company today unveiled a publicly available beta product that according to Pell reinvents how users search ... May. 12, 2008 05:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,498 |
 Microsoft, which spent $6 billion on aQuantive and was chasing Yahoo for its ads before it came to a dead stop, has been supporting - as in helping write - legislation in New York and Connecticut that would regulate the data that companies like Yahoo and Google collect for targeted adv...May. 11, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,178 |
 So how does it feel to have witnessed one of technology's little miracles this week? I mean Yahoo's stock price successfully defying gravity. It's as close as any of us will ever get to an apparition of the Virgin Mary floating on a cloud without any visible means of support. Apparentl...May. 11, 2008 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,486 |
 Yahoo's stock dropped roughly 19%-20% this morning at the open, shaving $8.7 billion off its value, its first installment on the price of its independence from Microsoft. Yahoo, whose position improved a couple of percentage points in the first half-hour of trading, is being held up by...May. 8, 2008 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,485 |
 The Ubuntu Linux-based gOS operating system from Good OS LLC (www.thinkgos.com) includes so many Google applications like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News Google Maps and YouTube that it's often referred to as the Google operating system. It also includes Firefox, Skype...May. 7, 2008 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 38,651 Replies: 10 |
'I hereby formally withdraw Microsoft's proposal to acquire Yahoo,' writes a disgruntled Steve Ballmer in this letter to Jerry Yang. Yang's tactic of cosying up to Google seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back. As a service to SYS-CON.com readers we bring you the full... May. 5, 2008 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,464 |
 At press time the Wall Street Journal was reporting that Yahoo! and Google think they've come up with a way around the Justice Department's anticipated objections to them climbing into bed together - one of Yahoo!'s alternatives to being acquired by Microsoft - and that a deal could be...May. 5, 2008 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,273 |
 Despite meeting yesterday, the Microsoft Board of Directors - according to the Wall St. Journal - has not decided whether its $31 a share offer for Yahoo!, which has fallen in value to $29 a share in line with a fall in Microsoft's own stock value, should be hoisted to $33 a share in a...May. 1, 2008 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,470 |
 The Wall Street Journal thinks that Microsoft is about to break the break the deafening silence that has hung in the air since Yahoo! ignored Microsoft's Saturday deadline to deal or be acquired by force at a lower price. The Journal thinks that Microsoft could nominate a proxy slate o...Apr. 30, 2008 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,739 Replies: 1 |
 Time is running out on Microsoft's deal-or-else ultimatum to Yahoo! Basically Yahoo! has to move off the dime by Saturday or else Microsoft could try taking the place by force, lowering its rejected $31-a-share bid in the process or - scarier still for Yahoo! - Microsoft could walk awa...Apr. 24, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,733 |
 Zoho's resident blogger and CEO of its parent company AdventNet, Sridhar Vembu, was dumping on Salesforce - an understandable exercise since Zoho's stash of SaaS Office-wannabe productivity programs includes a Salesforce rival CRM module - when he happened to mention that Benioff, Sale...Apr. 21, 2008 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,842 |
 Yahoo! is reportedly getting closer to that controversial deal that would outsource its search advertising to Google. Sources told the Wall Street Journal that the limited test of Google that Yahoo! set up went well. The Google strategy, which could potentially be worth a billion dolla...Apr. 21, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,228 |
 It looks like Google is back on track to be that $1,000 stock. Having been in the $400 doldrums since February 22, it crashed through $500 and clear into the $520s, up over 75 bucks in after-hours trading Thursday on the strength of its over-the-top Q1 results and the fact that its US ...Apr. 21, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,333 |
 Google has ripped a page out of Salesforce.com's handbook and has started up an AppExchange-like Solutions Marketplace site to cultivate third-party programs that complement its own widgetry, initially stuff like Google Apps and enterprise search. But Google says it expects it to 'grow...Apr. 17, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,386 |
 Well, at least somebody in the Yahoo spectacle is keeping their head. Capital World Investors, Yahoo!'s biggest institutional investor, has doubled its position to 10.1% figuring there must be some money to be made out of the fact that Rupert has abandoned Jerry to team up with Steve t...Apr. 17, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,126 |
 Monday evening, at a gathering called Campfire One, Google unveiled App Engine, a hosted web application platform that offers web developers free use of Google's mighty infrastructure and all the building blocks that Google uses for its own applications. Amusingly, it's as vendor lock-...Apr. 17, 2008 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,756 |
 The European Commission may crack down on Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft et al and tell them they can't keep personal search data longer than six months - and even that may be pushing it. The EC's international advisory body, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, whose findings are ...Apr. 17, 2008 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,371 |
 Google's paid-clicks in the US, the source of its fortune, showed weak, almost imperceptible growth for the third month in a row, according to comScore, just a couple of days before Google was scheduled to post its Q1 financial results. The tabulator says they were up only 2.7% in Marc...Apr. 16, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,434 |
 Gomez announced support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) 8 beta 1. Using the Gomez ExperienceFirst platform of on-demand web application experience testing and measurement services, developers can quickly understand how existing and new applications will look and perform in IE8, ...Apr. 16, 2008 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,918 |
 The widely rumored mating of Salesforce.com and Google Apps has taken place. There is now something called Salesforce for Google Apps; Google's productivity programs have been integrated into Salesforce's CRM suite - so data in one can be moved into the other and vice versa - in hopes ...Apr. 14, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 6,547 |
 When last seen Yahoo! was experimenting with letting Google deliver ads alongside Yahoo!'s search results and trying to cut a deal to fold AOL into Yahoo!, a possibility its own people reportedly abhor, while Microsoft, which delivered Yahoo! a ultimatum that expires April 26 to submit...Apr. 14, 2008 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,692 |
 Yahoo! says it's going to try offloading some ad placement to Google, experimenting with using Google's AdSense for Search service to deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo's search results. Yahoo made the announcement after the stock market closed. It didn't take long for Microso...Apr. 12, 2008 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,005 |
 Appcelerator announced that it has updated its platform to allow applications built using Appcelerator to be deployed to the free new Google App Engine. Used together, the offerings give developers a fast route to developing, deploying, managing and scaling their applications. Appceler...Apr. 11, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 7,887 Replies: 1 |
 Microsoft and News Corp are seriously considering pairing up for a joint run at Yahoo, according to both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. News Corp could kick in the Fox Interactive Media unit along with MySpace and some cash and Microsoft would throw in MSN. Such a deal...Apr. 11, 2008 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,841 |
 Yahoo! has managed to antagonize Microsoft into considering its options - like lowering its bid and girding for a hostile takeover - by sidling up to Google in a relationship that everyone knows can't go anywhere because of the antitrust issues. Now someone's whispered in the Wall Stre...Apr. 10, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,783 Replies: 1 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 27,054 Replies: 6 |
 Google is inching toward making Google Docs, its free, webby, Office-aspiring programs, work offline as well as on. It said Monday that it's started phasing the Google Gears browser plug-in-derived facility in, beginning with a small percentage of Docs word processor users. It can't do...Apr. 8, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 4,379 |
 Microsoft has given Yahoo! three weeks to come to terms or suffer a proxy fight for control of its board and a hostile takeover according to a Wall Street Journal report. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly sent Yahoo's board a letter today, a few days after Microsoft's second go-no...Apr. 7, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,501 |
Zimbra announced the availability of its ZimbraME (Java Mobile Edition) client and source code for businesses. Users of any Java-enabled mobile phone will have access to the industry's most complete collaboration solution. The ZimbraME client provides Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) O... Apr. 4, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,347 |
According to Brandon Badger, Product Manager at search engine, Google, the main goal of its AJAX APIs team is to provide developers with the tools needed to create the next generation of great web applications. The API helps developers translate content in their applications. Users on ... Apr. 3, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 5,213 |
 'We will have worldwide coverage but are concentrating on being number one in European blog search, both by controlling spam and working with all different languages,' said Martin Källström, CEO at Twingly, the European Internet start-up, as Twingly announced today that it is launching...Apr. 3, 2008 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,712 |
Douglas Merrill, Google VP of Engineering, is leaving Google to become EMI Music's new President of Digital. Merrill joined Google late in 2003 as Senior Director of Information Systems. In this capacity he led multiple strategic efforts including Google?s 2004 IPO and its related regu... Apr. 2, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,289 |
 Service providers that use Parallels Automation software can now easily deliver real-time spam and virus filtering, attack blocking, and e-mail traffic monitoring using a Google Apps security and compliance package. Parallels Automation is integrated with the Google Message Filtering e...Apr. 2, 2008 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,519 |
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