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Yahoo apparently has its sights set on the fast-growing legions of small Web sites and blogs as potential advertising venues and is planning a network similar to the one Google uses to populate such sites with advertising Google has long served small text-only ads to small publishers' sites and even to some self-published blogs....
A court has boosted the chances that Japanese Internet company Livedoor will be able to take over one of the country's largest radio broadcasters in a deal that would also give it a stake in a large television network Livedoor has positioned the move as a way to leverage its Web users and the listeners of the Nippon Broadcasting System. However, be...
Eager to expand its reach by honing in on opportunities around the world that its auction platform has missed, eBay has said it will launch a worldwide network of local classified sites In a move being billed as the auction giant's largest expansion outside its core business, eBay said it had opened sites in some 50 cities, all in overseas locales ...
Mobile phone makers and carriers are capturing the lion's share of the buzz at the annual CeBIT trade show this week, with vendors rolling out new products aimed at accommodating the next generation of wireless services and the rise of mobile commerce A slew of new and upgraded technology has been unveiled at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, fr...
IBM's landscape-altering sale of its personal computer business to China-based Lenovo Group has cleared an important hurdle, with the deal found not to pose a threat to national security The US$1.75 billion sale got the green light from the federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, making it likely the sale can be closed within ...
Malicious code writers have apparently pounced on a known security vulnerability in MSN Messenger, unleashing a rash of new viruses aimed at Microsoft's instant messenger platform The outbreak of viruses comes about three weeks after a vulnerability in the platform was published online. That brought several advisories and warnings from security fir...
Handset maker Nokia has joined with a slew of European-based partners to launch a test of a mobile television service in the Finland capital city of Helsinki Nokia and its partners, including MTV and the Finnish national broadcasting company on the content side, as well local mobile carriers and technology firms, said that while limited in scope, t...
Hoping to put another episode of dot-com era accounting fraud to rest, Homestore said it has finalized a class action lawsuit filed by investors in the e-commerce company over accounting fraud in the wake of the dot-com collapse The Westlake Village, California-based company said the settlement in the suit with the California State Teachers' Retire...
Online news sources gained more clout in the 2004 elections, eroding the dominance of traditional news outlets such as newspapers and radio, according to a new survey The Pew Internet & American Life Project said that 37 percent of the adult population of the U.S. and 61 percent of the online population used the Web to get political news and as a f...
Bringing its massive reach and brand power to a rapidly emerging niche, Yahoo said today it had launched a studio that would focus on developing video games for smartphones and other mobile devices The Web portal said the studio is already at work producing its first games for Verizon Wireless and that more are in the works....
Moving quickly to protect the rights of emerging voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) providers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined a North Carolina-based telecommunications carrier for refusing to accept traffic from Vonage The action from the FCC came less than a month after Vonage first filed a complaint with the agency. At the...
In the latest example of how rapidly search marketing is evolving, Google has said it will feature more editorial-style reviews in its Local Search product The search giant formally launched Google Local today and said it will use its search technology to return more results with Web sites that offer third-party information about businesses related...
Mobile handset maker Motorola has jumped into second place worldwide and is gaining ground on many of its rivals as the market for mobile phones continues to expand rapidly to record sales volume A report from Gartner says that a surge of sales in the fourth quarter, when sales jumped 24 percent, helped the mobile phone market achieve 30 percent gr...
Capitulating to pressure from some shareholders, MCI today said it would hold face-to-face talks with would-be buyer Qwest Communications International, which has offered to pay US$8 billion in cash and stock for the long-distance firm MCI, whose board has already given the nod to a bid from Verizon Communications worth $6.7 billion, said it will t...
Revisiting a time-tested strategy of growing through acquisition and working to diversify its holdings, IAC/InterActiveCorp. said it would buy catalog and e-commerce concern Cornerstone Brands in a deal worth around US$720 million Cornerstone publishes a host of consumer products specialty catalogs under titles such as Ballard Designs, Garnet Hill ...
The Firefox browser from the Mozilla Foundation has continued to gain market share and erode the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but there are signs the juggernaut might be losing steam WebSideStory said Firefox now holds about 5.7 percent of the browser market. IE's share fell below 90 percent for the first time, at 89.9 percent....
America Online has launched a new feature enabling users of its wildly popular AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) platform to use the contact list feature of the service in the Microsoft Outlook e-mail program The feature, currently a beta version, will enable Outlook users to cross-reference addresses and names in their e-mail address book with the "cont...
Amid internal turmoil and with a takeover bid looming, No. 2 electronics retailer Circuit City said it would end its four-year-old partnership with Amazon.com and handle its e-commerce itself Circuit City hinted that the Amazon partnership, under which Circuit City items were listed for sale through the e-tailer's site and which enabled customers t...
The would-be bidding war for MCI Communications took several dramatic turns in the last 24 hours Qwest formally introduced a revised offer promising investors faster payouts, MCI posted earnings results that showed continued financial struggles at the long-distance company and the company's CEO reiterated his belief that Verizon Communications make...
Leading mobile phone maker Nokia said it expects China to surpass the United States as the largest market for wireless phones and mobile subscriptions within three years, just the latest evidence that the rise of the Chinese economy is tilting the worldwide balance of power As it marked its 20th anniversary of first establishing a presence in China...
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