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Microsoft and Powerset confirm deal Microsoft and Powerset confirmed Tuesday that Microsoft will purchase the search-engine startup. The news comes several days after a rumor about the deal circulated on the Web.[ See related video of Eric Knorr's Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft, HP do search deal for PCs Ramping up its efforts to build search market share, Microsoft signed a deal to embed a Live Search toolbar on all Hewlett-Packard consumer PCs in North America starting next year.In addition, Live Search will b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Ozzie hints at Microsoft's search future, downplays Yahoo Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie on Wednesday suggested that Microsoft has its own clear ideas on the next direction it will take in Internet search, downplaying any deal the company might still make with Yahoo in favor of highlighting Microsoft's own ambi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft feeds cash to Online Services Business With the possibility of a Yahoo acquisition still uncertain, Microsoft is pouring hundreds of millions of additional investment dollars into its Online Services Business (OSB) in an aggressive effort to compete with Google in online advertising. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.CEO Steve Ballmer made the offer in a letter to Yahoo's board of di Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Is Microsoft Stuck With a Norwegian Herring? News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Gawker Media Rumor Control A Feisty Ad Server Catches Google's Eye Lawyers: Can't Anybody Speak English? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Even as it agreed in January to plunk dow Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Is Microsoft Stuck With a Norwegian Herring? News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Gawker Media Rumor Control A Feisty Ad Server Catches Google's Eye Lawyers: Can't Anybody Speak English? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Even as it agreed in January to plunk dow Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Is Microsoft Stuck With a Norwegian Herring? News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Gawker Media Rumor Control A Feisty Ad Server Catches Google's Eye Lawyers: Can't Anybody Speak English? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Even as it agreed in January to plunk dow Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Yahoo weighs options as Microsoft drama continues Yahoo is weighing its options to accept a buyout by Microsoft or consider tie-ups with other companies, in particular a reported plan to join forces with AOL, as a way to stave off the software giant's advances. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Verizon to include Microsoft Live Search on phones Microsoft has struck a five-year deal to pre-install its Live Search as the default search engine on Verizon mobile phones.Users will be able to download a Live Search software package to their mobile phones wil Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft signs MSN Toolbar deal with Sun People who download Sun's Java Runtime Environment will be offered the MSN Toolbar as well, through a search distribution deal Microsoft has struck with Sun, the companies will announce Monday.Starting Monday, w Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft shuts down book search Microsoft plans to shutter its book-scanning operation next week, the company said on Friday.It will shut down the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic Web sites and stop scanning library and copyright boo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Report: Microsoft takes aim at Verizon Wireless search Microsoft is making a pitch to be the default search provider on Verizon Wireless mobile phones, in an effort to steal the business from rival Google, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal Friday.Goog Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's 'Googlephobia' Breeds Panic Buying News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Microsoft's Supreme Search Screw-up AOL's Blast From the Past Selling Off the Pennsylvania Turnpike: A Good Idea? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Three weeks before it embarked Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Microsoft's 'Googlephobia' Breeds Panic Buying News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Microsoft's Supreme Search Screw-up AOL's Blast From the Past Selling Off the Pennsylvania Turnpike: A Good Idea? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Three weeks before it embarked Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Microsoft's 'Googlephobia' Breeds Panic Buying News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Microsoft's Supreme Search Screw-up AOL's Blast From the Past Selling Off the Pennsylvania Turnpike: A Good Idea? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Three weeks before it embarked Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Microsoft's options, post-Yahoo Poor Steve Ballmer. Having yanked his offer to buy Yahoo, Microsoft Corp.'s CEO is left to run a $57 billion company that is on track for its annual orgy of profits and continues to dominate several software spheres. And he still gets to decide how -- or even if -- th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft unwraps search engine reward program Microsoft launched a comparative shopping feature in its Live Search engine on Wednesday. The service offers consumers a rebate on purchases made through the site, a scheme that could lure shoppers from Google and Yahoo. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft pursues search improvements, sans Yahoo While the company only has a 10 percent share of the search market with its Live Search technology, Microsoft has big plans to enhance its platform regardless of what happens with its now-dormant proposal to buy Yahoo. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft prototype search engine personalizes results Microsoft's research arm has developed a prototype search engine with social-networking features that let users edit and reorder search results, as well as share them with online friends.The prototype engine mar Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |