TechWeb - InformationWeek - The numbers raise questions about whether Microsoft's failed attempt to acquire Yahoo would have been worth it. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 18:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Legg Mason funds manager Bill Miller says Microsoft should revive talks to acquire the Internet portal. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 19:30:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
AP - Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page criticized a potential Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, saying it would concentrate too much power in the online communications market, stifling innovation and curbing competition.
NewsFactor - On Wednesday, Microsoft announced a concept it hopes will give it the edge in the search engine wars: ad-funded cash rebates for customers who find and purchase products. -- read full article
Thu, 22 May 2008 15:44:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
AP - Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page said Thursday the Internet search leader opposed a Microsoft-Yahoo deal because it would monopolize the online communications market, stifle innovation and curb competition.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft plans to entice advertisers and users of its search engine with savings on online purchases on a site called Live Search cashback. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 16:50:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
AP - Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 19:37:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
Reuters - The top Republican on the U.S. House
of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee asked Google
chief executive Eric Schmidt on Wednesday to detail the search
engine's privacy practices since it acquired rival DoubleClick.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Wednesday it launched a new "cashback" search service that pays
users a rebate for buying products they found through the
company's Windows Live search engine.
AFP - Microsoft said Wednesday it will reward US Live Search shoppers with cash for purchases, essentially trying to buy market share it tried to win with its failed bid to take over Yahoo.
Reuters - Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet
division will launch versions of its video service in Canada,
India and Taiwan on Thursday as part of an aggressive global
expansion.
AP - Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo. -- read full article
Wed, 21 May 2008 18:05:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
Reuters - Microsoft Corp is not looking
to bid to buy all of Yahoo Inc but is in talks about other
types of deals with the U.S. No. 2 search engine, Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
