Yahoo's Microsoft tab totaled $79 million
Yahoo's tab in its efforts to fight off Microsoft last year ran $79 million, according to the company's filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — Yahoo spent much of that bill on ...
Putting a Bolder Face on Google
IN late December, Marissa Mayer was vacationing in Africa when her boss, Jonathan Rosenberg, e-mailed her asking if she was leaving Google. — It wasn't a routine query. As the gatekeeper of Google'...
Microsoft cloud to get ‘full’ SQL Server soon?
Azure details materializing — Next month, after a long silence, Microsoft will finally reveal what relational features from SQL Server have gone into its Azure cloud. Or so it seems. — Microsoft'...
Japanese “hate” for iPhone all a big mistake
A report intending to portray the iPhone as “hated” in the Japanese market turns out to have been built upon fake quotations from industry writers and observers who were misrepresented by remarks attr...
Here's Hoping Google Does Kill the Newspapers
The news that Google is placing ads on Google News has sent a renewed wave of handwringing through the newspaper industry. How dare those Googlers make online news a profitable business! — Of cours...
Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)
When Microsoft decides to imagine the future, it never fails to impress. Not only do you have some of the smartest people envisioning what's possible, but they also invest so much into communicating ...
The Big List Of Search Engines & Their Employees On Twitters
Yesterday, Google joined Twitter with a company account. We twittered a few search engine-related addresses as part of our post about that, but we wanted to do one that was a little more organized. ...
Data about Obama's helicopter breached via P2P?
An Internet security company claims that Iran has taken advantage of a computer security breach to obtain engineering and communications information about Marine One, President Barack Obama's helicopt...
Mufin Player organizes songs by sound
Earlier today, Mufin launched its music player, which analyzes the songs in your music collection based on their audio content, rather than human analysis (which is subjective and dependent on the ear...
ToysRUs Buys Toys.com At Auction For $5.1 Million
In a heated bidding war, ToysRUs bought the domain name Toys.com at auction for $5.1 million. ToysRus really wanted the domain, for obvious reasons. Everyone except ToysRUs and domain holding compan...