NBC's silver lining in the cloud
The U.S. broadcaster is set to air 2,200 hours of Olympic Games coverage online, and is adopting a shiny new interface to help users sift through all of that content.
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MySpace announces 'Data Availability' project
Social network teams with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter in initiative that lets members share their profile data with other sites.
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Yahoo sticks up search suite with Glue
Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a new way to present search results that take advantage of its background as an Internet portal.
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Google addresses antitrust issue on Yahoo ad deal
Microsoft is concerned an ad deal between Google and Yahoo would extend Google's search-ad dominance. Google execs say people should look at the bigger ad market.
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Finet Group breaks into Chinese Internet games sector
Chinese financial publisher Finest Group launches its own online game company, China Game, as a sign of commitment to invest in the gaming industry of China.
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Studios win US$100M judgment against TorrentSpy
Los Angeles federal court judge also issues permanent injunction against former search engine of BitTorrent files.
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Google will take Viacom suit to Supreme Court
Viacom's Redstone says he's standing up for the principle of copyright protection, but Google is willing to go all the way to the mat.
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Microsoft platform tops Web 2.0 developer survey
The company's Web 2.0 development platform has beaten offerings from Google and Facebook to lead in a users' choice survey that some believe is flawed.
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McAfee deal aims to make Yahoo search safer
McAfee technology will flag users of Yahoo's search to warn against potentially risky Web sites. It's not likely to dethrone Google, but it could curtail Web-based attacks.
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eBay Eachnet just wants to be free in China
Eachnet introduces fee exemption to users when they open an online store. This is an attempt to attract more users to boost up China's online transactions.
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Yahoo sets shareholders meeting for July 3--fireworks anticipated
Yahoo sets a 10-day deadline for any shareholder who wants to name a dissident director to run against Yahoo's board to step forward by the end of business on May 15.
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Yang courts Microsoft: Show me the money
Two days after Steve Ballmer takes his offer off the table, chief Yahoo Jerry Yang says he'd be open to another bid from Microsoft.
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The (virtual) global office
Moving beyond Second Life marketing, many companies are infiltrating virtual worlds for employee meetings, mixers and recruiting.
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Mosso to add cloud-based storage
The unit of Rackspace Hosting plans to add storage to its hosting lineup of cloud computing services.
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LinkedIn looking for a suitor, maybe
There is speculation that a big name prospective buyer is looking to acquire business social network LinkedIn.
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Not much life in China's virtual worlds
Chinese entrepreneurs' answers to Second Life are early stage, but they see potential for brand-building, worker training and e-commerce
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Yahoo shares fight to regain ground
Yahoo shares take a hammering after Microsoft pull out from its bid for takeover.
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Google: Unicode vanquishes ASCII
Unicode conquers ASCII on the Web and improves international search abilities.
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Google offers snapshot of VisualRank efforts
Google's new VisualRank technology will bring better and meaningful results for image searches. One of its innovations includes a limited set of facial recognition characteristics.
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Yahoo's AOL, Google deals still in the works
Yahoo is still working on deals with Google and Time Warner's AOL to improve its strength.
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