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Twitter on the verge of big search deals?
News Microsoft and Google are separately talking to the company about potentially licensing its massive amounts of real-time data to supplement search results, new report says.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data Management, Data mining & analysis, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., revenue
France adopts three-strikes law for piracy
News Soon, those in France accused of illegal file sharing multiple times could lose Internet access for up to a year, if they don't heed warnings.
Tags: Piracy, Web services, Law, ACTA Member, Piracy, U.S., job, Internet Access, European Union, antipiracy
Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search
News Microsoft executives Qi Lu and Yusuf Mehdi debut Twitter integration with Bing search results at Web 2.0 Summit. The Facebook partnership will come at a later date.
Tags: Search, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Search Result, financial, Web 2.0
Universal Music, YouTube near deal on music video site
News Vevo would be the name of a new Web site jointly run by Universal Music Group and YouTube, according to sources.
Tags: Copyright, Music, Music Video, Universal Music Group, EMI Group Plc., Video, digital music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, MTV, Talks
Another news tweak for Google
News Publishers who want their content to appear in Google search results but not its Google News aggregator (or vice versa) can now automate that process.
Tags: Search, Market research, Google Inc., search engine, Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., CEO, revenue, Internet search, News Corp.
Sources: Apple wants technology from struggling Lala
News Apple could offer some kind of "cloud" or streaming service but as company mulls an acquisition of a streaming-music service, its goals may be less ambitious.
Tags: Music, Web sites, Apple Inc., MySpace, SpiralFrog, MP3.com Inc., Lala, Web sites, digital music, New York Times Co.
Facebook and MySpace 'in talks'? Of course
News Good move for both companies as MySpace tries to move away from its image as a social network that lost to Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, Social Networking, MySpace, CEO, U.K., network, Web 2.0, Video, News Corp.
Microsoft's Mehdi on financial impact of Yahoo deal
News Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi says that once the two companies have a single paid search platform both should see double-digit increases in revenue per search.
Tags: Search, Yahoo! Inc., Webcast, Credit Suisse Group AG, Microsoft Corp., Paid Search, Arizona, San Francisco, ComScore Networks Inc., financial
One of Google Chrome OS's hardest tasks? Printing
News Printer drivers are a complicated problem to solve when building a new operating system, and Google hopes to come up with a unique solution for Chrome OS's launch.
Tags: Linux desktop OS, Google Inc., printer driver, Operating System, Web Browser, USB, Google Chrome, printer, printing, printer company
Google hosts energy experts amid climate talks
News Next week, the international community plans to discuss climate change and green energy, and U.S. energy experts kicked things off at Google's offices.
Tags: Green IT, Google Inc., Energy, Conference, climate change, Green IT, Copenhagen, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, China, agreement
News Corp.'s talks with Microsoft: A flawed deal?
News Confining content from The Wall Street Journal and other News Corp. publications to Microsoft's Bing will do more to hurt Rupert Murdoch than Google.
Tags: Search, Web browsers, Social Networking, MySpace, Google Inc., Arianna Huffington, Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft Corp., News Corp., Wall Street Journal
Will there be too many chefs cooking India's UID broth?
Blogs Today's newspapers carry a photograph of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz offering a bouquet of flowers to India's Prime Minister M...
Nokia sees 10 percent sales increase for 2010
News This past year has been a tough one for Nokia, but the mobile phone maker expects sales to pick up in 2010, as economy improves and its Ovi service expands.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Nokia Corp., Phone, Smart Phone, Siemens AG, cell phone, U.S., handset, Telecommunications, Sales
YouTube wants to offer film rentals
News This would be a natural progression for YouTube, which has for the past year attempted to become a hub for feature films, but has not inked any deals.
Tags: Business applications, Data Management, Sony Pictures, Video, Comcast Corp., YouTube Inc., movie, Wall Street Journal, Data Management
Targets for Google's merger machine
News What's next on Google's mergers and acquisitions list? Head of corporate development lists search, advertising and mobile services as "top priorities".
Tags: Search, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., David Lawee, JumpTap, advertisement, CEO, network, mobile, Search Result
