Google, News Corporation, and Rupert Murdoch!
Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation has been in news for targeting Google and other web services which index news sites in their search engine.
Murdoch has already hinted that all of their web properties would go paid in the future.
Wall Street Journal is already mostly paid.
His latest [...]
Lee Kai-Fu leaving Google China
Google has confirmed that Lee Kai-Fu is leaving their Chinese unit which has been working hard to compete with Baidu in that market.
The company has now announced Yeo Boon-Lock as Lee’s replacement.
Lee had joined Google from Microsoft. That appointment made headlines as Microsoft sued him for breach of [...]
Google Mobile Search now support 40 languages
Google has announced that they are now supporting two more languages on their mobile search engine.
The two new languages added are: Hebrew and Arabic.
The company said that they now support as many as 40 languages on mobile search which is an important achievement for them.
Google said [...]
Microsoft to hire around 400 Yahoo employees
Microsoft and Yahoo recently announced their collaborative deal on search engine technologies.
The deal would see Microsoft Bing powering Yahoo Search.
As a part of this deal, around 400 Yahoo employees would move to Microsoft.
This comes to around 3% of all Yahoo workers.
Microsoft already has around 91,000 employees [...]
Carl Icahn still wants a deal between Yahoo and Microsoft
Carl Icahn owns around 5% of Yahoo and he has expressed his support for a possible deal between Microsoft and Yahoo.
Industry sources have claimed that the two companies have begun talks once again for a possible deal on search related operations.
Yahoo and Microsoft [...]
Microsoft-Yahoo once again in news
Yahoo and Microsoft are not yet accepting it but industry sources say that the two giants are back in discussions for a possible collaboration.
Microsoft is said to be still interested in the search operations of Yahoo.
The rumours in the market have helped boost Yahoo’s stock price at the share [...]
Feedburner founder Dick Costolo leaving Google?
TechCrunch has reported that Feedburner founder Dick Costolo is leaving the search engine giant Google.
He had joined Google when Feedburner was acquired by them around two years ago.
And like many other founders of companies which were acquired by giants like Google or Yahoo, he has decided to move on. [...]
Yahoo could cut more jobs
Market sources say that the US based internet media giant Yahoo could cut more jobs to keep the costs low.
Yahoo is also said to be back in talks with Microsoft over a possible collaboration.
Sources say that the company could announce the latest round of job cuts as early [...]
Yahoo might now need Microsoft with Google gone
Google has just announced that they have decided to not go ahead with their deal with Yahoo related to search advertising.
They took this step to avoid getting into long regulatory discussions.
This is bad news for Yahoo who might now have to get back into talks with Microsoft [...]
Microsoft: No interest in acquiring Yahoo now
Steve Ballmer was quoted as saying that it made sense for Microsoft to enter into a deal with Yahoo.
However, Microsoft has now clarified their position as a company representative said: “Our position hasn’t changed. Microsoft has no interest in acquiring Yahoo. There are no discussions between the companies.”
Ballmer had [...]
