Google users are seeing more ads across the Web giant’s vast empire. With the economy weakening, the Mountain View company has turned on a spigot of sales pitches in areas once devoid of them. On other properties, it has increased their number and frequency….
New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has a long to-do list — chart the company’s strategy, weigh a potential search partnership with Microsoft, boost morale and round out her management team — and not much time to deliver amid a weak economy that is hurting…
Well, Microsoft, you just cut 5000 jobs and missed your Wall Street estimates . What are you going to do now? If you guessed they?re going to Disney World, you?re wrong. No, according to Steve Ballmer, they?re looking to drop some big bucks on Yahoo search. read more
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) — Political observers say Google is taking aim at Washington to earn support for network neutrality and expanded high-speed Internet access.
As Yahoo gathers itself to report its last quarterly earnings under Jerry Yang ?s troubled tenure as chief executive, expectations are fairly low.
The Nasdaq rose 1 percent on Friday, helped by Internet leader Google , which reported earnings that beat expectations after the bell on Thursday.
Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter results after the stock market closes Tuesday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period.
Microsoft ?s decision to lay off 5,000 workers in light of dismal financial results has not changed one thing at the software giant: Steven Ballmer, the chief executive, would still like to get his hands on Yahoo ?s search business.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said Thursday that the US software giant remains interested in a search business partnership with Yahoo! and welcomed the appointment of new CEO Carol Bartz.
Microsoft and Google have used their prodigious cash flows to pursue a host of side projects in attempts to diversify. And neither has had much success.
