PC World - May market share numbers for search traffic from comScore are good for both Google and Yahoo, but year-over-year data tells a different story. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:38:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - One of Yahoo Inc.'s disgruntled shareholders is urging Microsoft Corp. to make a more compelling case for its bid to buy the Internet pioneer's search operations — a proposal that was trumped by an advertising deal Yahoo reached with Google Inc.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Such a move could spur the use of Linux as the operating system of choice in virtual machine environments. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:05:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Yahoo Inc is considering a
reorganization to centralize its mail, search and homepage
divisions into a global product organization, the Wall Street
Journal reported on Thursday, quoting people familiar with the
matter.
AP - Yahoo Inc.'s management ranks are rapidly thinning as the Internet pioneer fends off a shareholder mutiny threatening to culminate in the firing of Chief Executive Jerry Yang.
Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao answered
just two questions in his online debut on an official website
on Friday, the first being -- what do you usually do on the
Internet?
Reuters - Microsoft Corp's CEO said the
company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet
acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc
, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Reuters - EU's telecoms chief Viviane Reding
said on Friday that China's censorship of the Internet was
"unacceptable" and that the Beijing Olympics were a chance for
the country to show its commitment to free flow of information.
USATODAY.com - Even if you're an active Web surfer you probably don't pay much attention to the browser you are using. By default, you likely employ Microsoft's Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, if only because Internet Explorer sits right there on your desktop. The Apple crowd typically sticks with Safari. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:03:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
Reuters - Chinese authorities gave the green
light to a number of firms to run online video-sharing
services, after ordering dozens of firms to halt operations
earlier this year. -- read full article
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:58:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AFP - The US military has lost hundreds of sensitive nuclear missile components, in the latest embarrassment for The Pentagon, the Financial Times reported in its online version Thursday.
Reuters - Floods sweeping southern China seem to
have fulfilled the final stanza of an Internet curse involving
Beijing's Olympic mascots, but censors have been quick to
remove postings that might fuel the superstition.
AFP - Chinese censorship of the Internet and restrictions on reporting have worsened despite Beijing's pledge to improve media freedom ahead of the Olympic Games, an activist said Thursday.
