CNET blogger looks at the Internet giant's increasing vertical integration of its tech
CNET Nov 19, 07 5:30 PM CST
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Is Google moving in the direction of writing its own platform software and building its own hardware? That's what Gordon Haff argues on CNET's The Pervasive Datacenter blog, citing recent news about Google designing its own network switches and writing its own virtual machine for its cellphone platform, on top of its longstanding practice of assembling its own servers from component parts.
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New service groups
pix by location
Reuters Nov 19, 07 6:44 AM CST
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Beginning today, a new mapping feature will make it easier to view photos stored on Flickr by location. "Places," a new geographical sorting service on the massive photo-share website, pinpoints photo contributions to one of 100,000 locations on a global map, Reuters reports. The map also shows the latest hotspots for contributions.
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Says software company has sent a clear signal of intent
PC World Nov 18, 07 1:24 PM CST
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Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, blogs Huffington Post’s Henry Blodget—there’s no other way to interpret comments made by a honcho Thursday that the Bill Gates brand plans to up its online search market share from its current 10% to 30%. Do the math, says Blodget: Acquiring Yahoo’s 19% share would “instantly” put Microsoft at about 30% (Google boasts 67%).
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After turning over
data, it will pay 2 men jailed by Beijing
CNET Nov 13, 07 5:25 PM CST
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One week after being labeled moral “pygmies” in a House hearing, Yahoo settled a lawsuit brought by two Chinese journalists jailed when the Internet giant turned over their personal data to Beijing. The two men, now serving 10-year sentences on charges of leaking state secrets, sued Yahoo for providing the Chinese government with their emails and addresses. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
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Is 'social search' worth banking on?
VentureBeat Nov 12, 07 10:19 AM CST
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With a new option allowing users to search for advertising pages, Facebook has crept another step closer to a search engine. Will the social networking site take the ultimate plunge in its battle against Google and roll out a full-fledged search engine? VentureBeat 's Doug Sherret explores how this engine would look and how it could succeed.
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Hope Congressional hearings will bring pressure for men's release
Wall Street Journal Nov 8, 07 1:01 AM CST
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Families of two jailed Chinese dissidents who appeared at Congressional hearings on the matter yesterday say they hope hearings would pressure China to release the men, who were imprisoned after Yahoo released information about them to their government. After the hearing, Yahoo execs met with the family members privately, apologizing for their company's role in the affair and promising to work for the men's release.
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It's the last big
acquisition in new restructuring plan
Reuters Nov 7, 07 4:15 PM CST
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AOL will purchase online advertiser Quigo, its final acquisition on a major restructuring agenda. The Time Warner unit has had poor ad growth recently—13% this past quarter, down from 40% percent levels—and is seen as trying to stay competitive with Google and Yahoo. The purchase, reportedly valued at around $340 million, is the latest in a “buying frenzy,” Reuters reports—on the heel of Microsoft’s $6 billion buy of aQuantive.
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Congressman calls company 'spineless' for surrendering email
Financial Times (UK) Nov 6, 07 3:48 PM CST
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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang suffered intense criticism from a senior Democratic congressman today for not being entirely forthcoming about the search engine's role in the imprisonment of a Chinese dissident, the Financial Times reports. Yahoo had told the House foreign affairs committee it didn't know why Chinese authorities wanted information about Shi Tao's email.
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Chinese B2B site is largest e-commerce offering since Google
MarketWatch Nov 6, 07 7:33 AM CST
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Chinese business-to-business platform Alibaba held its IPO on the Hong Kong stock market today, nearly tripling in share price in first-day trading. The company raised $1.5 billion (US) by selling just 17% of its shares. "I think Alibaba's share price is way ahead of its fundamentals; I think the best advice is to get out as soon as possible," said one wary investor.
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Published, retracted without explanation
Valleywag Nov 1, 07 12:23 AM CDT
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Valleywag reports that somebody leaked Google founder Larry Page's wedding date to a Fortune editor, but the info was later scrubbed from the story in which it had appeared. And the old version of the article doesn't show up in the Google cache of the page. Yahoo cached the original version, however, revealing that the wedding is scheduled for December 7.
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Carriers hope to lure customers away from Google, Yahoo
PC World Oct 26, 07 5:19 PM CDT
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Google and Yahoo would love part of the growing mobile search business, but phone carriers aren’t eager to have them. Carriers don’t want to be “the dumb pipe that the ISPs became,” one analyst explained. Instead they’re turning to startups like JumpTap and Medio, who provide carrier-branded mobile search. The problem, PC World explains, is that users can surf to Google themselves.
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Company co-founder talks about the struggle to stay relevant
CNET Oct 24, 07 12:54 AM CDT
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Being the CEO of Yahoo is no cakewalk, according to co-founder Jerry Yang, speaking yesterday at a conference in California, News.com reports. "It is a lonely job in the sense that you have to make some of the tough calls," Yang said of the job he finally took 13 years after co-founding the company. Among those tough decisions for Yang, since his ascension in June, has been how to deal with the dominance of Google.
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Wall Street Journal Oct 23, 07 2:42 PM CDT
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There are tens of thousands of people in your extended network, and they might be playing Gem Quest come January. MySpace plans to host hundreds of easy-to-learn online games to, as one company VP put it, “enhance the fun factor”—and grab a slice of the game industry’s fastest-growing segment, the Journal reports.
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Operation links buyers to Chinese manufacturers
Wall Street Journal Oct 22, 07 4:24 AM CDT
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Alibaba, the business-to-business service that links small and mid-sized Chinese manufacturers to customers around the world, is expected today to announce what will likely be the biggest Internet IPO in Chinese history. Analysts expect the world's most-visited import/export site to pull in an estimated $1.3 billion from Hong Kong investors, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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