Microsoft Challenges Yahoo: Make Deal Or Face Proxy Fight “The bid price could go down if Yahoo does not extend cooperation soon, Microsoft CEO Ballmer warns.” San Francisco – Cracking nearly two months of stillness since Yahoo’s board rejected Microsoft’s US$44.6 billion bid; Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer sent an open letter this weekend to Yahoo!, […]

“UK policy reflects US AdWords rules.” The latest controversial amendments made to Google’s search advertising system could see Scottish companies facing significantly higher marketing costs. The UK PPC Blog reports that Google AdWords UK has modified its trademark guidelines for the UK and Ireland bringing it to be more aligned with the US policy. Under […]

Just two months following the acquisition of FoxyTunes, and setting in place a bold new plan for Yahoo! Music, Ian Rogers, vice president of video and media applications at Yahoo, decided life at the top of a music startup called “TopSpin Media,” which describes itself “the future of digital artist services” looks more promising than […]

San Francisco — Microsoft Corp. is measuring it bid amidst slowing U.S. economy, whether to cut its $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo! Inc. because the Internet Company may have lost value since Microsoft made its offer, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The news, first reported by Reuters, sent Yahoo shares dropped down […]

“Companies are finally permitted by auction rules to speak about the recently accorded 700 MHz spectrum, with Google now confirms what everyone doubted: its bidding in the 700 MHz auctions was primarily about triggering the open access rules.” San Francisco — Google Inc. declared Thursday its intention in the latest government spectrum auction was to […]

Yahoo! India Unveils Maps In Local Languages Bangalore – Yahoo! India has unveiled a new service for the first time in India — maps in local Indian languages along with walking directions. This is available on its existing Yahoo! India maps at http://in.maps.yahoo.com/. The enhancements displays Yahoo!’s aim to become the leading starting point for […]

Facebook, CareerBuilder Team Up For Job Ads New York – For most people, Facebook is still a social network — Yet it never hurts to have an opportunity dropped in one’s lap — Internet jobs site CareerBuilder.com is set to forge an alliance with Facebook to enable job recruiting campaigns within the online social network, […]

MySpace Music Announces iTunes Rival “With 5 Million Member Bands, Company Could Revolutionize Recording Industry.” San Francisco – MySpace, the leading social networking website on Thursday unveiled “MySpace Music,” a site that has always been closely associated with music, is launching a free music Internet service with major recording labels to closely compete with digital […]

Las Vegas — Microsoft on Tuesday went ahead and surprised the masses at the CTIA Wireless 2008 Conference in Las Vegas, demonstrated new features for its Windows Mobile 6.1 platform, including Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash capabilities.