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Strategies for Retailers Fighting Price Wars

Strategies for Retailers Fighting Price Wars

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (10) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- All retail companies want to maximize their profits, while at the same time maintaining high market share compared with their competitors. One way to do this is by promising to offer the lowest ...


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Los Angeles OKs plan to use Google Web services

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The Los Angeles City Council has tentatively approved a multimillion-dollar proposal to tap Google Inc. for government e-mail and other Internet services.


Yahoo! and Microsoft launched a joint offensive against Google in July

Microsoft's Bing increases US search share

Technology / Internet

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Microsoft's new search engine Bing posted a slight increase in its share of the US search market in August, the third month in a row of modest gains, according to online tracking firm comScore.


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Google users loyal: comScore

Technology / Internet

created Aug 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

The planned Microsoft-Yahoo! online search tie-up has promise but must overcome people's fierce loyalty to market king Google, industry tracker comScore said Friday.


Review: Yahoo's shift to Bing could be risky bet (AP)

Review: Yahoo's shift to Bing could be risky bet

Technology / Internet

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

(AP) -- Is Microsoft's Bing really a better search engine? Since it debuted last month, it has earned praise for the smart way it presents results and how it lets users preview Web sites without clicking ...


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Microsoft ads say search is sick, Bing is the cure

Technology / Internet

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (9) | comments 13

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is inventing a new malady for which its new Web search site, Bing, is the only cure.


Windows washer: Meet Microsoft's antidote to Vista (AP)

Windows washer: Meet Microsoft's antidote to Vista

Technology / Software

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (16) | comments 24

(AP) -- Julie Larson-Green hopes you'll like Windows 7. If not, well, now you and a billion other people know whom to blame.


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Nokia profit plunges 90 percent in Q1

Technology / Business

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Nokia Corp. on Thursday said profits plummeted 90 percent in the first quarter because of fading demand for mobile phones amid the worldwide downturn - but its shares surged as analysts had expected ...


Sun shares dive as IBM buyout talks falter

Technology / Business

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc. fell in premarket trading Monday on news that IBM Corp. withdrew an acquisition offer.


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Mobile phone sales up six pct in 2008, 4th qtr weak

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mobile phone sales grew by six percent in 2008 over the previous year but fell nearly five percent in the fourth quarter as the global economy weakened, market research firm Gartner said on Tuesday.


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Flickr lets all users upload video snippets

Technology / Internet

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Flickr on Monday began letting users of its free online photo-sharing service upload snippets of video to the website in a budding challenge to Google-owned YouTube.


Gottfrid Svartholm Varg(C) and Peter Sundin(R) from The Pirate Bay

Prosecutor seeks prison terms in Pirate Bay filesharing case

Technology / Internet

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 6

A Swedish prosecutor on Monday called for one year jail terms for four men charged with running The Pirate Bay, one of the world's top websites for illegal downloading.


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Microsoft's browser sees notable decline in usage

Technology / Internet

created Jan 04, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 8

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet browser lost a notable number of users during the last half of 2008, according to recently published data, a trend that underscores the growing competition in a market long dominated ...


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Microsoft search engine Bing suffers brief outage

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US software giant Microsoft has blamed a problem during testing for a half-hour outage of its new Web search engine Bing.


EU extends Oracle/Sun review deadline until Jan 27

Technology / Business

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- European Union regulators said Friday that they have extended until Jan. 27 a deadline to wrap up their antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc.