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Google prime target for regulators

Technology / Internet

created May 10, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Google's unabashed success as an Internet search and advertising juggernaut has placed it in the crosshairs of regulators worried the firm will trample free market competition.





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Microsoft shutting down Soapbox video service

Microsoft shutting down Soapbox video service

Technology / Internet

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Microsoft plans to close MSN Soapbox at the end of August, pulling the plug on an online video-sharing service that competed with Google-owned YouTube.


Microsoft redesigns MSN, adds Twitter, Facebook

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.


Microsoft Trials Office 2007 on Hotmail

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created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Microsoft integrates Office 2007 functionality into MSN in what it says is a one-day trial.


Briefs: KVH ties up with Microsoft for mobile TV

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created Jan 05, 2006 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

KVH Industries said it will work with Microsoft to provide television service in cars, trucks and boats across the United States.


Microsoft launches new ABACUS smart watch

Microsoft launches new ABACUS smart watch

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created Jun 14, 2006 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (23) | comments 0

Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology initiative released its next generation of Smart Watches for MSN Direct.


Microsoft Buys Stake in CareerBuilder.com

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created May 10, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The agreement gives MSN a piece of CareerBuilder.com, extends an existing deal between the companies until 2013, and adds in MSN's European partners.


New search engine Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the search market in the United States in June

Microsoft posts modest search gains with Bing

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

New search engine Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the search market in the United States in June but, still lags behind Yahoo! and Google, a Web analytics firm reported Wednesday.


A man walks past a giant Microsoft logo

Microsoft acquires vid-ad company Massive

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created May 08, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday it would be acquiring Massive Inc., a creator of video-game advertising.


Executive who led Google's China expansion leaving (AP)

Executive who led Google's China expansion leaving

Technology / Business

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The executive who led Google Inc.'s expansion in China after being hired away from Microsoft Corp. following a high-profile court battle is leaving to start his own business, the U.S. search engine ...


Microsoft lays off 800 more workers worldwide

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs. That's in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January.



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