Microsoft has withdrawn its bid to acquire Yahoo after the two sides couldn't agree on a price. Microsoft said it had increased its offer to $33 a share, but said Yahoo wanted at least $37 a share.
Yahoo and Time Warner's AOL are closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations, a move that could thwart Microsoft's effort to acquire Yahoo the Wall Street Journal reported.
New data suggests that the number of consumers clicking on Google Inc.’s search ads is declining. So where does that leave companies and entrepreneurs who depend on pay-per-click advertising for revenue and/or their own marketing?
The identities of Microsoft's two online brands, MSN and Windows Live, have been a subject of confusion since the company launched the latter a few years ago. So it was interesting and a bit perplexing to see these billboards show up in Seattle rec
Yahoo is running radio ads in the San Francisco Bay Area and several other markets in an effort to get more people to use its search engine instead of Google's.
"Search engines like Google get you lost in all the links, but not Yahoo search,"
Users have been spotting explicit pornographic images on Google web search for a search on hot celebrities. The query triggers Google to show an image search result at the top of the web search results, also known as Google Universal Search.
AT&T Inc said on Monday its Yellowpages.com directory will distribute its listings on Microsoft Corp's local search sites, replacing Idearc Inc's Superpages.com service.
Microsoft Corp. said it intends to acquire Kidaro, a provider of desktop virtualization systems for enterprises, as part of its virtualization strategy.
Microsoft said Kidaro's virtualization technology will be incorporated into future updates
Google plans to announce a new service that Web publishers can use to manage their online ad sales and serve up ads each time a consumer pulls up a Web page.
Local.com and Idearc Media Corp., parent of Superpages.com have renewed and expanded their local advertising distribution agreement under which Idearc Media will continue to place its Superpages.com performance based advertisers on Local.com and Loc
European regulators gave a green light to Google Inc.'s acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., clearing the way for the search-engine titan to close a $3.1 billion deal that will enlarge its repertoire of advertising tools.
Spammers have cracked the captcha mechanism Gmail uses to make sure you are a human before you can open an e-mail account, leading to a huge increase in the amount of spam sent from Gmail last month, security firm MessageLabs says.
Talking to investors at the annual Bear Stearns Media Conference, Murchdoch said that “We’re not going to get into a fight with Microsoft, which has a lot more money than us.” Murdoch also gave support to Google as FIM’s ad provider: “We’re very hap
Forbes is out with the latest billionaires list, and Google executives are well represented. Plus Yahoo president Susan Decker saw a 63-percent increase in her salary, with a 29-percent bonus increase from last year.
Yahoo on Wednesday said it is extending the deadline by which shareholders must nominate candidates for its board in a move designed to give the company's management more time to pursue alternatives to Microsoft's $41 billion takeover offer.
Google just updated their “What’s New” page with information about a yet unreleased feature that will let you sync your Outlook calendar with Gmail and vice versa.
introduced onePlace, a service that lets people organize Web content so it can be quickly accessed through a mobile browser on a phone or other Internet-connected device.
Rumors last week that Ask, the IAC-owned search engine, was about to cut 100 jobs overestimated the body count. In fact, Ask is trimming 40 jobs, or about 8 percent of its workforce.
What investors want to know about Microsoft and Yahoo these days is this: Are they, or aren’t they? Talking to each other about Microsoft’s $40 billion-plus takeover offer, that is.