PC World - Microsoft and Yahoo have dismissed a report that they're once again in discussions to sell Yahoo's online search business for $20 billion. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:10:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
AP - Retailers who saw Thanksgiving holiday sales drop off as the weekend progressed stepped up online promotions on the day known as "Cyber Monday" to try to get consumers tired of the crowds at stores to keep shopping.
Reuters - Barack Obama's presidential victory got more clicks than any other story on yahoo.com this year, but the most searched term was "Britney Spears," Yahoo reported on Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:31:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - The volume of sales at Internet retailers held steady Friday compared to last year, despite the worsening economic outlook and signs U.S. consumers are cutting back on spending. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:35:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - Singaporean operator StarHub is rolling out a femtocell service that allows mobile subscribers to make calls at home using their broadband Internet connections instead of the cellular network. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:37:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - Chinese game developer NetDragon Websoft plans to work with U.S. digital game maker Electronic Arts (EA) to create a multiplayer online game based on EA's Dungeon Keeper series of digital games. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:41:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - European telecommunications ministers gave their backing on Thursday to a plan to cap retail prices for sending SMS (Short Message Service) text messages and browsing the Internet using mobile phones while abroad. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:41:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - Online attacks will be dominated by smarter malware and bots targeting Web users ranging from gamers and social network users to the elderly and unsuspecting parents. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:42:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - Bloggers pitched in offering information and other help to people worldwide as Indian police and commandos battled it out Thursday with armed terrorists in two top hotels and a residential complex in south Mumbai. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:42:32 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - Eighty-one per cent of worldwide online videos are viewed using Adobe Flash technology, making it the number one format for video on the Web. This is according to the independent research firm comScore. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:46:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - Sling Media hopes to go head-to-head with Hulu, Joost and other online streaming sites with a newly launched video streaming destination of its own at Sling.com. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:46:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - A wave of coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai late Wednesday dominated the news this week, with bloggers and people using Twitter helping to get information to families and friends of those affected. Multinational technology companies are not expected to change their business strategies as a consequence of the stunning attacks, which targeted westerners. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:46:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - The U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is bringing momentary relief to weary IT investors, but forecasts of flat sales or absolute declines for semiconductors, mobile devices and online commerce mean that it will be a while before the clouds lift from the tech sector. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:46:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
PC World - An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts. -- read full article
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:47:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Internet News
