Easy View Internet

Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai have confirmed that they could access the English-language version of one of the worlds most popular websites, but the Chinese language version was still restricted.
While searches of random topics such as Johann Sebastian Bach and dim sum brought up English-language articles, sensitive words such as Tibet were met with [...]

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a letter dated April 5 and addressed to Yahoos board of directors that now is the time to negotiate final terms of a deal, which, valued at more than $US40 billion ($NZ51.5 billion) would mark the biggest-ever takeover in the high-tech industry.
If we have not concluded an agreement [...]

Search engines would be forced to delete personal information they collect
about their users after six months under new guidelines put forward by
European authorities.
A European advisory body said that it saw no justification for keeping
information relating to search queries for as long as 18 months - as Google
does - and criticised search engines for not being [...]

SEATTLE — Internet icon Yahoo Inc., under pressure of a three-week deadline from Microsoft to accept its $41 billion buyout bid, said Monday it doesn’t oppose a deal with the world’s largest software maker but wants a better offer.The statement comes after Microsoft warned Saturday that [...]

The top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Monday, April 7, 2008:Novartis Spending $38 Billion for AlconBASEL, Switzerland (AP) - Switzerland’s Novartis AG said Monday it will spend about $38 billion in a two-step bid for a majority stake in U.S. eye-care [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

SEATTLE — Microsoft set the clock ticking for Yahoo to accept its $41 billion buyout offer in a letter to the Internet pioneer’s board Saturday, warning that if a deal wasn’t reached by April 26 the software maker would launch a hostile takeover at a less [...]

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. sent a letter to the Yahoo Board of Directors Saturday setting a three-week deadline for moving forward on its more than $40 billion buyout offer.The letter signed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Microsoft will take its case directly to Yahoo shareholders [...]

SEATTLE — Microsoft set the clock ticking for Yahoo to accept its $41 billion buyout offer in a letter to the Internet pioneer’s board Saturday, warning that if a deal wasn’t reached by April 26 the software maker would launch a hostile takeover at a less [...]