Look out, Naomi: Ashley’s telling it all. Ashley Judd, actress/activist/denim designer, has inked a deal to publish a memoir in cooperation with Ballantine Books, the publisher announced in a release on Tuesday. The book, Ashley’s first, will draw from more than 500 pages of journal entries chronicling the star’s childhood through her work as global [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nicholas Kristof’
Microsoft Challenged Google with Bing Launch, Yahoo Deal in 2009
December 15th, 2009 |
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Microsoft decided that 2009 was the year it would challenge Google on the search giant’s turf, through launching a rebranded search engine, Bing, and signing a search-and-advertising partnership with Yahoo designed to give Microsoft more share in the U.S. search engine market. Microsoft spent much of the fall incorporating new features into Bing, although it also experienced some minor hiccups, notably a small downtime incident and a conflict with The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
– Microsoft decided to challenge Google more robustly in the U.S. search-engine arena in
2009, pouring millions of marketing and development dollars into a revamped and
rebranded search engine, Bing.
Microsoft originally announced Bing as the replacement for
its Live Search at the seventh annual D…
Microsoft Fixing Bing’s Chinese Search ‘Bug’
November 23rd, 2009 |
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Microsoft responded to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof’s assertion, made in a Nov. 20 column, that Bing offers pro-Chinese-government results for politically sensitive queries inputted in simplified Chinese. Microsoft now asserts that those results are related to what the company calls a bug that will be fixed soon, although Kristof argues the company told him the same thing in June. Microsoft follows Google in experiencing political problems while trying to disseminate the Chinese version of its search engine.
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Microsofts Bing may be gradually expanding its share of the
search market, but the search engine and by extension, Redmond finds itself
under fire from New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
In a Nov.
20 column, Kristof accused Microsoft of “craven kowtowing” to the Chinese
government …
Craig and Marc Kielburger: No News Isn’t Good News
July 24th, 2009 |
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There’s not much new about the genocide in Darfur. For six years now, the conflict has uprooted over 2 million people. The United Nations estimates…
Mallika Chopra: The Hardwiring of Human Empathy: How We Can Save One Child at a Time
July 22nd, 2009 |
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An 8-year-old girl is drowning in a pond. Her head is bobbing up and down the surface of the water, and she is clearly struggling…
Jay Winsten: Bono, SOS!
July 12th, 2009 |
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Nicholas Kristof hit the nail on the head in his New York Times column last week when he wrote about the failure of many humanitarian…