Jun 5

Consumer groups asked Google Inc. to make its privacy policy more visible Tuesday, arguing that California law requires the company to place a link to the document on its home page.
Making the information more conspicuous, the groups said, would help users learn about the kind of data the Mountain View Internet titan collects about them, [...]

Apr 27

SAN FRANCISCO — Brushing aside the threat of a disruptive takeover battle that could batter its shaky stock, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday reiterated its refusal to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion.Yahoo’s defiance, spelled out in a letter to Microsoft Chief [...]

Apr 27

SAN FRANCISCO — Brushing aside the threat of a disruptive takeover battle that could batter its shaky stock, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday reiterated its refusal to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion.Yahoo’s defiance, spelled out in a letter to Microsoft Chief [...]

Apr 27

SAN FRANCISCO — Brushing aside the threat of a disruptive takeover battle that could batter its shaky stock, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday reiterated its refusal to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion.Yahoo’s defiance, spelled out in a letter to Microsoft Chief [...]

Apr 25

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. believes it’s poised to revolutionize online advertising after years of being outmaneuvered by rival Google Inc.But the slumping Internet pioneer might not get the chance to show off the latest improvements to its online advertising platform unless it can convince increasingly [...]

Apr 25

WASHINGTON — Ten months before the nation flips to digital television, technology companies and TV broadcasters are fighting over the virtual remote, with different ideas of what to do with the unused airwaves.Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and others on Tuesday are launching an advertising and lobbying [...]

Apr 18

Flickr to expand into video

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SAN FRANCISCOYahoo Inc. will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the Internets dominant video channel, Google Inc.s YouTube.Flickrs video technology, to debut late Tuesday, [...]

Apr 16

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. believes it’s poised to revolutionize online advertising after years of being outmaneuvered by rival Google Inc.But the slumping Internet pioneer might not get the chance to show off the latest improvements to its online advertising platform unless it can convince increasingly [...]

Apr 16

By Michele Gershberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would test a new way to measure the effectiveness of Internet advertising in a challenge to an industry standard that has helped the likes of Web search leader Google Inc and Yahoo Inc.
Microsoft’s “Engagement Mapping” is due to begin [...]

Apr 13

(Adds analyst comment seeing Microsoft as stronger offer)
By Eric Auchard and Anupreeta Das
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK, April 9 (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc
(YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research), which was widely believed to be running out of
alternatives to accepting Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) takeover
offer, has become a target of two warring [...]