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Bing, Google, and Yahoo All Making Maps More Interesting

Sunday, February 14, 2010 3:52 No Comments

At TED, Microsoft unveiled some new features for Bing Maps. “This work builds on the idea of spatial search that Microsoft discussed in December when the company launched its new version of Bing Maps,” a representative for Microsoft tells WebProNews.
Some of the new features are available today, but some you will have to wait on [...]

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MySpace to buy Web music service iLike

Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:02 No Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters) – News Corp’s MySpace said on Thursday it has agreed to buy music recommendation service iLike, as the once-hot social networking site tries to reinvent itself as an entertainment portal.
MySpace declined to disclose financial terms of an acquisition that brings iLike’s twin brother founders Ali and Hadi Partovi and Nat Brown into [...]

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EU Says Internet Can Boost Economy

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 13:12 No Comments

More than half (56%) of Europeans are now regular Internet users compared to one third in 2004, according to a new report from the European Commission.
Half of households and more than 80 percent of businesses now have a broadband connection.
The most active Internet users are those between the ages of 16 to 24 with 73 [...]

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Yahoo gets hard look from investors following deal

Friday, July 31, 2009 3:38 No Comments

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc shares fell for a second straight day after the company announced a Web search partnership with Microsoft Corp that failed to live up to Wall Street expectations.
Even as the broader market rallied, Yahoo shares dropped as much as 6 percent on Thursday. The stock recovered a little in late [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Announce Deal

Friday, July 31, 2009 3:33 No Comments

Well, they’ve finally gone and done it. Microsoft and Yahoo have partnered to “change the search landscape.” The two companies today announced a long-awaited deal, in which Microsoft will power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive  search advertising provider for Microsoft’s search engine, Bing.
You know this history by now. Here’s what the companies [...]

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