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Now that the first .com domain is officially 25 years old, it might be time to discuss some of our favorite Web services from companies like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. It's a difficult list to come up with. All three companies are doing something special with at least one of ...

Microsoft Bing grabbed 11.5 percent of the U.S. search market in February, up from 11.3 percent in January, according to comScore. While Google grew slightly to 65.5 percent, Yahoo dropped from 17 percent through January to 16.8 percent in February. Microsoft may one day be able to attribute other actions ...

Consumer Watchdog advocate John Simpson pored over Google's 2009 Form 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission and made a striking discovery. While Google listed only Microsoft and Yahoo by name in its 2008 10-K filing, the search engine listed 10 companies that it views as competitors in the ...

T-Mobile USA has replaced Yahoo with Google as its default search engine on mobile phones, such as BlackBerry smartphones. Yahoo says it will continue to work with T-Mobile, citing the recent partnership on Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger and on content services such as the placement of various Yahoo services ...

Yahoo could emulate Apple in the 1990s in taking years to restore itself to competitive health, CEO Carol Bartz told reporters during a March 2 event to commemorate Yahoo's 15th anniversary. Although Yahoo has aggressively sought to expand its more popular features while cutting underperforming applications and programs, the company ...

Yahoo participated in the fray of integrating social networking with search results. Due to the alliance of Bing and Yahoo, Bing is responsible for all of the back-end work of actually crawling and indexing the Web, while Yahoo handles a unique front-end. The company does not plan to convolve the ...

Google and Yahoo deny infringing search technology and information integration patents owned by copier maker Xerox and vow to vigorously defend themselves in court. Xerox alleges that products from Google and Yahoo infringe on two patent from 2004 and 2001. Xerox should not expect an easy resolution in these matters; ...

Yahoo has announced a partnership with Twitter that includes integrating Twitter content and social features across the Yahoo! network. - Yahoo has announced a partnership with Twitter that includes integrating Twitter content and social features across the Yahoo network. In a February 23 blog post on the ...

Microsoft and Yahoo's search deal will give Microsoft's Bing search engine much needed scale versus market giant Google, but integration challenges are a certainty as the companies rationalize assets and partners, say analysts from FBR Capital Markets. Assuming all goes smoothly, Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal said it may take ...

If you are wondering what will happen to the Yahoo Search developer tools now that the Microsoft and Yahoo search agreement has been approved, Yahoo has a message for you: Stay tuned. - If you are wondering what will happen to the Yahoo Search developer tools now that ...

The Justice Department's Antitrust Division Feb. 18 cleared the search engine agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo because the deal is likely to increase competition with Google. Echoing what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said several times about the Microhoo deal, the DOJ said the transaction will improve Microsoft's ability to ...

The European Union (EU) approved on Thursday Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo's search business. The EU said the deal "would not significantly impede effective competition" in the European market.

Microsoft and Yahoo's crucial search agreement passed muster with both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, clearing the way for better competition with Google. Yahoo will start shuttling its algorithmic and paid search platforms to Microsoft, an undertaking that should be complete by the end of 2010. ...

The European Commission is expected to approve Microsoft and Yahoo's landmark, 10-year search deal designed to put a stop to Google's search dominance. Reuters said the European Commission, which oversees matters of corporate competition for the European Union, is expected to bless the deal. The EC gave itself a Feb. ...

Microsoft in January nabbed 11.3 percent of the searches in the United States, grabbing market share from market leader Google and sinking search rival Yahoo. comScore claimed Google notched 65.4 percent of U.S. searches, down from 65.7 percent through December 2009. Yahoo claimed an even 17 percent of the market, ...

Yahoo reports net income of $153 million in its fourth fiscal quarter, or 11 cents per share on revenue of $1.73 billion. While revenue was down 4 percent from the year-ago quarter, Yahoo officials say they expect revenue to grow for the first time in six quarters as ad sales ...

Microsoft will follow Yahoo's privacy practices for search data, which demand that data such as IP addresses be purged after 90 days, after the two companies close their search and advertising deal in which Bing will be used to power search on Yahoo's sites. Those who use Bing directly, as ...

comScore Jan. 15 said Google and Microsoft grabbed more U.S. search market share from Yahoo in December, with Bing ascending to its greatest search share since August 2007. Google, which earlier this week threatened to close its search operations in China, rose to 65.7 percent from 65.6 percent in November ...

News Analysis: Microsoft underwent substantial challenges in 2009, few of which it will alleviate in 2010. However, a stronger economy could translate into increased sales, reversing its revenue decline, and some products launched in 2009 will likely continue their strong adoption trend. Areas such as cloud computing pose the chance ...

Applications that take users directly to e-commerce sites and other Web service destinations threaten search providers such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing, according to BroadPoint AmTech. Some vendors are making it even easier for consumers to visit their site and make purchases. For example, Amazon, eBay and Best Buy ...