Articles tagged "yahoo"

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Yahoo’s high price for coddling Google

by Elise Ackerman and Pete Carey [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[20.Mar.08] :. Almost eight years ago, Yahoo decided to lend a little start-up a helping hand, featuring its search technology on the Yahoo home page and giving it money at a critical juncture. In cut-throat...

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How Yahoo went from Web star to Microsoft prey

by John Letzing [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[20.Feb.08] :. SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Two years ago, Yahoo Inc. acquired a vast patchwork of commercial lots in the heart of Silicon Valley, a prime location that local officials hoped would become home to thousands...

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Yahoo, AOL Microsoft striving to stay relevant

by Eric Benderoff [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[20.Feb.08] :. In the 1990s, the Internet portal was the gateway and the gatekeeper to the Web, a place filled with a variety of content, from reprinted magazine articles to choppy playback of movie...

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Microsoft stretches online domain with Yahoo interest

by Victor Godinez [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[5.Feb.08] :. Microsoft’s proposal to buy Yahoo for $45 billion doesn’t mean much directly for gamers. But it does illustrate just how small-potatoes the Xbox business is for Microsoft. Oddly, that...

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Why Yahoo, not Google, should drive your search

by Steve Johnson [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[17.Oct.07] :. For the most recent chunk of our Internet lives, most of us have been on autopilot. When it comes time to look something up on the Web, we “Google” it. We don’t do this...

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Talk of Microsoft-Yahoo merger peters out

by Elise Ackerman and Jack Davis [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[6.May.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Friday’s dramatic bounce in Yahoo’s stock on reports of a deal with Microsoft - later discredited - reflects the pressure facing the third- and second-largest Internet...

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Yahoo, newspapers expand partnership

by Elise Ackerman [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[17.Apr.07] :. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Twelve newspaper companies have joined Yahoo in a joint effort to sell ads and help readers find local news online, representing one of the broadest attempts by the struggling...

Apple marks iPod milestone; SanDisk ramps up competitor

by Rex Crum [MarketWatch (MCT)]

[9.Apr.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. took time to pat itself on the back for reaching a milestone in iPod sales on Monday, but as it did, one of its chief rivals took the opportunity to unveil a new digital...