It?s no secret that this has been a tough year for Yahoo. For investors, the company?s two major setbacks were the failed merger negotiations with Microsoft and the failed advertising partnership with Google, which disintegrated in the face of opposition from advertisers and the Justice Department.
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Executives at Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are the largest contributors among technology companies to Barack Obama ?s presidential inauguration festivities.
ClaraBow writes with this excerpt from MacWorld: “A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened. … Cygnus’s owner and president Gregory Swartz developed the technology laid out in the …
A Michigan-based networking company on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Google, Microsoft, and Apple alleging that all three tech giants violated a patent it owns on the use of document-preview icons–or thumbnails–in operating systems.
Cygnus Systems, a small Indiana-based software company has sued IT giants Google, Apple and Microsoft claiming it holds the patent to a common file preview feature that was used without permission by the three companies in many of their software products.
A small networking services company was recently granted a patent covering the use of representational icons in an operating system. What follows next should be no surprise: a lawsuit delivered to Microsoft, Apple, and even Google, just in time for the holidays. Read More…
A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened.
It will surprise no one that Google accounts for a lion’s share of the ad server market. However, it may come as a shock that Microsoft holds only the equivalent of a lion’s paw.
Google and Microsoft said Monday that they have not backed away from their support for net neutrality principles, despite a report to the contrary.
Yahoo revises a controversial severance program that critics argued was meant to block Microsoft’s takeover bid earlier this year.
