Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
In an attempt from Yahoo current board and the CEO Jerry Yang to contain the mutiny amongst the shareholders for the failure of $47.5 billion takeover deal with Microsoft, The board postponed Yahoo annual meeting from the 3rd of July to the end of July. (more…)
Tags: ed kozel, Icahn, Yahoo, yahoo board
Posted in MSN, Search Engines, Yahoo | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Today Google opened Google sites for the public. Google sites is a brilliant move from Google to increase the usability of their Google Apps as many might know that these apps weren’t that hit as Google expected.
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Tags: google apps, google friends, google sites
Posted in Google, Search Engines, Social Sites, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
It seems that really Microsoft is going forward after the withdrawal of the takeover bid of Yahoo.Tomorrow Microsoft will announce that they established a joint program with eBay and Paypal to offer a Cash Back program that entitles the users of Microsoft Live Search for a cash back for every search conducted and results in a purchase. (more…)
Tags: live search, live search cash back, Microsoft
Posted in General, MSN, Search Engines | 1 Comment »
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Today , Microsoft issued a new press release regarding Yahoo after the current development in the situation since the withdrawal of Microsoft from the takeover proposal . In the recent release Microsoft has announced that they are studying alternate options to expand their business and advertising efforts. (more…)
Tags: Microsoft, microsoft offers yahoo new deal, Yahoo
Posted in MSN, Search Engines, Yahoo | 2 Comments »
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Com Score Inc. has announced that finally Google sites have knocked out Yahoo from the long held number one position for the most visited U.S. site for April 2008 .
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Tags: comscore, Google, Yahoo
Posted in General, Google, Search Engines, Uncategorized, Yahoo | No Comments »
Friday, May 16th, 2008
In February ,City of Detroit’s Police and Fire Retirement System and General Retirement System, has filed a lawsuit to prevent the Yahoo board from taking any unacceptable actions that prevents the success of the Microsoft takeover proposal. (more…)
Tags: Yahoo, yahoo lawsuit, yahoo shareholders lawsuit
Posted in MSN, Search Engines, Yahoo | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Billionaire Carl Icahn , one of the major holders of Yahoo shares ,is leading a Yahoo shareholders campaign to to replace Yahoo’s 10 directors headed by Roy Bostock at the company’s July 3 annual meeting .
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Tags: carl icahn, microsoft offer to takeover yahoo, Yahoo
Posted in General, MSN, Search Engines, Yahoo | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Since Google and yahoo have announced the launch of their trial ad partnership which enables Google to display Google ads along with Yahoo search results. We have been waiting for this breakthrough in the marketing and advertising online and wondering how it will affect Google adwords program. (more…)
Tags: ad partnership, Google, Yahoo
Posted in Adword, General, Search Engines, Yahoo | 2 Comments »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Yesterday, I received an email asking me to verify my Google adwords information as my payment failed to process. I found it very strange and I thought that Google database is going banana as I have NO Google adwords account .The email was as follows: (more…)
Tags: google adwords, google adwords scam, google adwords spam emails
Posted in Adword, General, Google, Search Engines | 4 Comments »
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Finally the big fuss is over, Microsoft has withdrawn it proposal to acquire Yahoo. Microsoft announced that they were no longer interested in Yahoo after weeks of negiotations (more…)
Tags: microsoft acquisttion, microsoft withdrew yahoo proposal, microsoft yahoo takeover
Posted in Google, Search Engines, Yahoo | 4 Comments »