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Google Contemplates Yahoo Takeover

Google is mulling the possibility of challenging Microsoft's bid for troubled search company Yahoo

13 years ago

Microsoft Could Make New Bid For Yahoo

Despite a lucky escape in 2008, Microsoft is reportedly leading a bid to buy its partner Yahoo

13 years ago

Rumours Swirl Of Microsoft Bid For Yahoo

Microsoft plans to acquire Yahoo, claims Reuters. No such plans, counters Bloomberg. Who’s right?

13 years ago

Yahoo Investors Seek Removal Of Chairman

Official company filings have revealed the shareholder turmoil currently engulfing Yahoo

13 years ago

Google Search Share Falls As Yahoo, Bing Grows

Google's search share has fallen below 65 percent, on the back of increases from Yahoo and Bing

13 years ago

Carol Bartz Quits Yahoo Board

Fired as Yahoo's CEO last week, Bartz has now left the company's board as well, as AOL reportedly seeks a…

13 years ago

Yahoo CEO Bartz Fired In Phone Call From Chairman

CEO Carol Bartz has been supplanted by CFO Tim Morse as troubled Yahoo starts its search for a replacement

13 years ago

Bing Rallies To Second In Search But Facebook Suffers

Experian Hitwise's latest figures show traffic gains for Bing searches but more losses for Facebook

13 years ago

Yahoo European Search Results Moving To Bing

Yahoo, transferring its European organic search results to Microsoft Bing, warns firms to check keywords

13 years ago

Search Rankings See Little Movement, ComScore Says

There is little change among the search engine share rankings in June, comScore has found

13 years ago

Facebook’s Web Presence Creeps Up On Google

Google still rules the search market in the UK, but Facebook's popularity is starting to impact on web traffic

13 years ago

Yahoo Denies Spying On Mail Users

Consumer group Which? claims that Yahoo is snooping on users' mail, but Yahoo says this is standard practice

13 years ago

Yahoo Grooming Hadoop As A Big Data Standard

Yahoo's Raymie Stata acknowledges Hadoop's core needs refining before it can become a de facto industry standard

13 years ago

Search Rivals Agree To Develop Common Standards

Microsoft Bing, Google and Yahoo Search have developed schemas to specify special search features

13 years ago

Microsoft’s Earnings Call Suggests Trouble Ahead

Microsoft reported strong quarterly earnings, but a bit of softness in numbers hints at potential future difficulties, says Nicholas Kolakowski

14 years ago

More Cloud Misery As Yahoo Mail And Flickr Go Dark

Two of Yahoo's most popular services were down for several hours for a million users, the company said

14 years ago

Yahoo Is Newest Member Of Linux Foundation

Yahoo has announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation to better support the Linux community

14 years ago

Yahoo Rolls Out Search Direct To Challenge Google

Yahoo Search Direct predictive-search technology is geared to help searchers find answers, not links, faster

14 years ago

Google Joins ISP-Level Anti-Phishing Scheme

Return Path is getting big backers for its Domain Assurance service designed to combat phishing scams

14 years ago

Yahoo Preps Customised, Mobile Livestand Newspaper

Yahoo announces Livestand, a digital newspaper tailored for tablets and smartphones to compete with The Daily

14 years ago

Yahoo Hits Back At Microsoft WP7 Data Drain Claims

Yahoo has hit back at claims that its email software was to blame for the 'phantom data' issue on WP7…

14 years ago

Microsoft Confirms Yahoo As Phone 7 Data Culprit

The “phantom data” drain on some Windows Phone 7 handsets has been blamed on Yahoo Mail

14 years ago

IPv6 Test Flight Has Risks – But Huge Benefits

On 8 June, we'll find out if the global, open Internet has a future, says Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society's…

14 years ago

Facebook, Google And Yahoo Join Giant IPv6 Test

The world's biggest websites will test the new IPv6 protocol before IPv4 addresses run out

14 years ago

Yahoo’s Delicious Looking For New Owner

As Yahoo reportedly plans to cut some of its services, bookmarking site Delicious is looking at its options beyond the…

14 years ago

Bing Gains Ground At Expense Of Google, Yahoo

Microsoft's search engine Bing has picked up market share at the expense of both Google and Yahoo

14 years ago

Redundancy Axes Fall At Nokia And Yahoo

Nokia cuts staff in Finland and a leaked memo from Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz confirms layoffs began this week

14 years ago

Twitter And LinkedIn Users Urged To Change Passwords

The hack of Gawker Media over the weekend has prompted other major sites to advise users to change their passwords

14 years ago

Paul Allen Sees Lawsuit Setback

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's lawsuit against 11 companies, including Apple, Google and Yahoo, has been dismissed due to lack of…

14 years ago

Microsoft Suffers Bing Setback In Japan

Microsoft has suffered a setback when Japan allowed Google to fuel Yahoo Japan's search engine

14 years ago