The leading rivals in electronic book readers, Sony and Amazon , are poised to face off against each other over Google ?s closely watched settlement with authors and publishers.
Yahoo has begun spreading its browser-boosting plug-in by including it in the installation of the next Yahoo Messenger.
You’re going out for a few drinks before dinner. You have the bar’s address but you’ve never been in the neighborhood. What does the place look like? The Street View feature in Google Maps is always a helpful method of scoping out a business’s façade. But sometimes the image is dark and blurry and you’re not quite sure what you’re looking at. An update to Google Street View drops an …
Italy’s antitrust watchdog is investigating allegations by Italian newspapers that Google Italy is discriminating against newspapers that don’t want their content linked on Google’s news site by dropping them from its search engine.
Italy’s anti-trust watchdog said on Thursday it was opening an investigation into Google’s Italian news website after local papers complained that they were forced to appear on the site (http://news.google.it).
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo! joined an alliance opposing the legal settlement which would allow Google to digitize and sell millions of books in a move the Internet giant dismissed as “sour grapes.”
Last week, we reported that Amazon , Microsoft and Yahoo were joining a new coalition of individuals, companies, libraries and nonprofit groups that are opposing the far-reaching settlement of a lawsuit between Google and groups representing publishers and authors.
Yahoo is expanding in the region, which has about 45 million to 50 million online users.
Her identity revealed, a blogger who posted rants about model Liskula Cohen said she was the real victim in the case and plans to sue Google for violating her privacy.
Remember Yahoo? Apparently the company forgot to read my post about how its star has faded, and it isn’t yet ready to shut the doors and call it a day. Yahoo still feels it has a trick or two up its sleeve and deserves a seat at the grownups table with Microsoft and Google.
