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White Paper Driven by their low cost, affordable bandwidth and their scalability, Ethernet services are growing rapidly and are also now reaching critical market mass. Two major factors are still preventing a complete adoption of Carrier Ethernet:... [11 Sep 2008]
Microsoft coffers swell on Vista, Office sales
News s Overture service. In the first quarter to include consumer sales of Windows Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft reported profits that topped Wall Street estimates. The software behemoth said it made $4.93bn profit, or 50... [27 Apr 2007]
Microsoft depressed by search results
News s Overture engine to Microsoft's own AdCenter paid search system has had a particularly strong impact, with Microsoft taking a hit in the amount of revenue it derives from each search query. Microsoft is continuing to... [26 Jan 2007]
Yahoo! engine sparks Browzar backlash
News s Overture search engine, which has outraged many users by burying impartial results behind pages of sponsored results. We have Overture and people are not happy with the way that they show their results. [04 Sep 2006]
Microsoft plans "long-term investments"
News The company is in the process of transitioning its search engine from the former Overture service, now owned by Yahoo! Despite Wall Street's negative reaction to Microsoft's plan to invest billions in its emerging... [02 May 2006]
Google to thwart Microsoft with AOL bid?
News Google began providing search services for AOL in 2002, replacing Overture, which was acquired by Yahoo! Google could try to bid for AOL to pre-empt a Microsoft takeover and protect the $380m in revenue Google gets from... [20 Sep 2005]
Update: Barry Diller group bids $1.85bn for Ask Jeeves
News The new MSN AdCenter service, set to debut in Singapore and France in the coming months, is also likely to diminish Microsoft's dependence on Overture, a subsidiary of Yahoo! InterActiveCorp has agreed to a $1.85bn... [21 Mar 2005]
Microsoft launches into paid search
News s Overture Services currently supplies MSN with sponsored search links, which complement MSN-sold "featured sites". But the new MSN service, called adCentre and set to roll out in Singapore and France in the coming... [16 Mar 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.02.05
Round-Up So sang The Fall in Overture From "I Am Curious Orange" - a song about UK mobile phone operator Orange. "Pained and intense, man, They were inquiring. They were curious Orange. OK, so it was written long before Orange... [25 Feb 2005]
Microsoft launches into search
News s Inktomi search technology has powered MSN for more than three years, and its commercial subsidiary Overture Services has provided targeted text ads for several years, too. MSN's Payne would not comment on any plans to... [01 Feb 2005]
Yahoo! wants to be a Hollywood star
News also maintains offices in nearby Pasadena, California, for its commercial search arm Overture Services. Yahoo! has set up stakes in Southern California, forming a media group to house various entertainment properties and... [26 Jan 2005]
Yahoo! fashionably late for desktop search party
News commercial-search subsidiary Overture Services. In a step to keep pace with chief rival Google, Yahoo! plans to start testing a downloadable desktop search application in early January. The Sunnyvale, California-based... [10 Dec 2004]
What's the greatest security risk?
News It is exactly those people that might be vulnerable to this kind of overture,” said Forsyth. The greatest security risk facing large companies and individual internet users over the next 10 years will be the increasingly... [01 Nov 2004]
Google grabs AOL Europe from Overture
News America Online and Google have expanded their partnership in Europe, in a deal that once again pushes search rival Overture Services to the margins. The agreement is yet another coup for Google in the fierce battle to... [20 Oct 2004]
Microsoft quietly opens song shop
News Microsoft will wrap the site into its online advertising and into paid search links provided by Yahoo's Overture Services division. Microsoft on Wednesday released a beta version of its highly expected online music... [02 Sep 2004]
