Three months ago Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo Inc., and today they are no closer to acquiring the company than they were then. On Saturday, the deadline passed for Yahoo to accept Microsoft’s bid. They did not accept, and now Microsoft is left in a quandary: are they still worth pursuing? …
On Wednesday, Google turned over approximately 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission charged with looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted in restricted-access photo albums on Google’s Orkut social networking site. In turning over the data on suspected pedophiles, Google gave into the pressure to lift their confidentiality duty to its …
The latest piece of Yahoo software to be revealed is Yahoo BrowserPlus, which may be the company’s answer to Google’s Gears project. Very few actual details about the software are known at this time, but according to the BrowserPlus FAQ’s, “Yahoo! BrowserPlus is software that lets you do more inside your web browser. BrowserPlus makes …
Last week, a European Union privacy panel issued a report urging search engine providers such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN to delete data taken from users after a six month period. Even though most of these companies are based outside of the EU, the panel is recommending that they abide by EU data protection rules. …
In 2007, Google made headlines when they invested $4.4 million in 23andMe, a genetic screening start-up company began by Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and a business partner. But if you thought that was Google’s only interest in genetics and DNA, you’re wrong. Google has also been investing in a second …
Two major search engine companies that also offer a variety of competing services: can they be friendly and work side-by-side? In the case of Yahoo and Google, the answer is yes. Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed this on Thursday, when he talked about Yahoo’s current test partnership with Google, and sang nothing but praise of …
Google has been working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s program for just about a year to help the agency revolutionize the way that they track and fight child pornography on the internet. Four Google employees collaborated and used their “20% Time” to come up with software that will allow the NCMEC …
Planning your business and train rides in Los Angeles will soon get a lot more simpler with the Google Transit treatment. Two LA transit agencies – Metro and Metrolink – are working on getting their system info into the Google Transit system, and are currently in the testing phase. It is expected to be launched …
After discovering that Google had taken the initiative to change what has been historically known as the “Persian Gulf” to the “Arabian Gulf” in their popular Google Earth software, the country of Iran had some harsh words for the search giant. Iran makes the claim that Google has attempted to “distort” historical facts, and refers …
While its certainly not any new news that Google has been testing out television ads, what is new is that they are about ready to go public with the service, supposedly sometime in the next few weeks. The service would allow advertisers to buy up ad spots on popular TV networks, including the likes of …
