With Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, IBM and VeriSign joining its board, the notion of an online universal identifier does not look like a pipe dream any more… “The OpenID framework allows people to use a single user name and password to sign into sites that support it…” San Francisco — The OpenID Foundation announced on Thursday […]

Yahoo has reportedly decided to reject Microsoft’s unsolicited takeover offer… “Several newspapers and news agencies say Yahoo’s board will on Monday dismiss the $44.6bn offer as being inadequate…” New York — Yahoo! Inc., the world’s second-most popular Internet Search Company, has failed to crack Google Inc.’s dominance of Web search, plans’ to reject a $44.6 […]

The search engine’s latest software bundle builds a rudimentary social graph where workers can collaborate and share documents… “Google is releasing its new Team Edition of Google Apps — which could make life both harder and easier for IT departments…” Google on Thursday plans to offer a new edition of its hosted applications suite that […]

Monthly service offers unlimited disk space, bandwidth to business customers… “Now that Yahoo is facing a $45 billion unsolicited takeover offer from Microsoft, we can expect to see a flurry of actions designed to help Yahoo expand its business and possibly fend off Redmond — or at least show shareholders its intent to do so…”

Search engine Ask has launched a news website entitled BigNews in collaboration with community information site Digg… A joint project by Ask and Digg led to the opening of a news aggregation site called “BigNews.” The company, whose parent company InterActiveCorp is having troubles of its own over plans to split off its different brands, […]

Time Warner will split AOL’s dwindling paid Internet-access business from the rest of its AOL operations… “Amid solid earnings that hit analysts’ marks, Time Warner announced on Wednesday that it would radically restructure — and possibly sell part of — its AOL Internet service provider division, ending a tumultuous experiment between the old and new […]

America Online moved to prop up its web ad operation yesterday with the purchase of online affiliate marketing network Buy.at… “Just when you thought it was all about a few big players, AOL pops up and spends money to expand its business…” AOL LLC said Tuesday that it has purchased “Buy.at,” an online affiliate marketing […]

Web giant pulls plug on Music Unlimited… “As Yahoo continues to overhaul the focus of its music business, the company will move its online music subscription customers in the coming months to Rhapsody America…” “Yahoo is taking dramatic action to resolve problems with Yahoo Music Unlimited, its premium subscription service.” Yahoo’s change in music offerings […]

New site aims to help developers build and test applications for the social network… “MySpace plans to celebrate the launch of its Developer Platform Site with a gala event at its new San Francisco offices, offering developers a sandbox full of APIs to develop and test their widgets, before they become available to the public […]

Microsoft may need to abandon its longstanding financial independence to complete a takeover of Yahoo, the company said … “In a sign of just how badly Microsoft wants Yahoo, the software maker’s CFO said that the company would borrow cash for the first time to fund its proposed $44.6 billion acquisition of its Internet rival…” […]