San Francisco — Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock, on Wednesday sent a letter to stockholders in the company defending its alliance with Google and whopping out at Carl Icahn’s campaign to install a Microsoft-friendly board of directors. In a letter to stockholders, Yahoo explained that the search advertising pact it signed […]

New York — The world’s largest handset maker Nokia is buying the remainder of Symbian, the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, for $410 million and opening the popular mobile-phone platform through the Symbian Foundation to challenge Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Open Windows and even […]

“Microsoft goes on making partners to support its task to create an online repository for patient information.” A new healthcare partnership announced Monday between Microsoft, AT&T, and Compuware subsidiary Covisint, to set up an Internet-based information exchange between the companies’ e-health systems.

Mumbai — California-based internet major Yahoo’s employee troubles are not yet over. The prolonged unsolicited buyout scuffle and mass exodus of top executive ranks continue and have now touched the Indian arm of Yahoo too. Unsurprisingly, the interesting thing is that the internet major Yahoo! hopes to double its employee force in India operations to […]

Helsinki — Finnish handset maker Nokia on Monday moved to beef up its mobile navigation and social networking start-up business to its portfolio Monday by acquiring Plazes AG, a smaller rival to services like Twitter and Jaiku — as part of the world’s top mobile phone maker’s push into offering Internet services for an undisclosed […]

Chicago — Yahoo! Inc., the second-largest vendor of online advertising in the U.S., has announced two innovative advertising solutions — HotJobs Smart Ads and Premium Company Profiles to help recruitment advertisers meet their hiring and branding objectives by delivering more relevant job listings to candidates. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo said the first; Yahoo! HotJobs has expanded […]

“Google plans to reveal a comScore and Nielsen killer tomorrow, reported the Wall Street Journal.” San Francisco — Measuring the Internet usage tool may be the next free thing from Google, a service that augurs competition with companies that charge a hefty premium for such information. Internet search leader Google Inc. is all set to […]

Bill Gates Relinquishing Microsoft Helm On June 27 “Bill Gates veered his childhood fascination with computer code into a Microsoft software empire that altered the entire culture around the world, and now the era ends’.” San Francisco – Whether you like his personality or not, his bequest is astounding not only in size but in […]

“Project Echo will revolutionize the magnitude to which developers can integrate with eBay.” Open source has made a considerable effect on the “offline” world of packaged software, and perhaps having more important consequences on the web world.