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Round-Up Yahoo! Yet, after all the negotiations came to an end, Yang admitted that despite all the hoo-ha about Yahoo! According to an open letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo! So it's all over between Microsoft and Yahoo!
[09 May 2008]
Comment But as well as seeking greater uniformity in practice, the move was almost certainly prompted by a recent landmark court judgement in the case of Wilson v Yahoo! This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing...
[30 Apr 2008]
Round-Up In other news - Microsoft this week got sick and tired of waiting for Yahoo! The software giant issued the Yahoo! On top of this Yahoo! First, it's intended to test Google's AdSense for Search service, which will deliver relevant ads alongside Yahoo!
[11 Apr 2008]
Comment Today, the top 10 most used search engines include Google, Yahoo! Written at home on a wet evening and dispatched to silicon.com via personal LAN. Over the past few years I must have seen a dozen new search engines claiming to be the answer to a...
[31 Mar 2008]
Round-Up This isn't likely to go down too well in Seattle as the company considers pushing ahead with its Yahoo! Big, bad Microsoft has had a quite staggering change of heart. The Seattle software giant has announced it is opening its application code...
[29 Feb 2008]
Comment Yahoo! Microsoft is no exception and its bid for Yahoo! But the current gyrations around Microsoft, Yahoo! These are big companies, although Yahoo! And that brings us back to the attempt by Microsoft to challenge Google, with or without the Yahoo!
[20 Feb 2008]
Comment I also catch Yahoo! Boerries eventually whips out an iPhone and talks about how Yahoo! Welcome to day three - the day of the clammy handshake. You can practically hear the panic: It'll all be over in but a handful of hours!
[14 Feb 2008]
Comment And that's why in the past week or so some of the senior editors here have been spending time in TV studios, talking about subjects ranging from the problems with HMRC's website to the implications of the latest twists and turns of the Microsoft...
[12 Feb 2008]
Round-Up Atkins: "I thought Jerry Yang said that the Yahoo! Page: "So what are we looking at with this Microsoft-Yahoo! Atkins: "And how did you phrase your interpretation of their 'potential upside' in last week's letter to the Yahoo!
[08 Feb 2008]
Comment ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Wi-fi field tests ¦ Microsoft changes M&A strategy with Yahoo! What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the...
[07 Feb 2008]
AS Profile The leading venture capitalist on the 2007 list, Moritz has been involved in technology investment and was influential when Sequoia Capital invested in Yahoo way back in 1995, before the potential of the internet was fully appreciated.
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment We are all familiar with web-based mapping applications such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps or Microsoft Windows Live Local, as well as 3D maps such as Google Earth or Microsoft Virtual Earth. Businesses churn out geographic data every day without...
[09 Oct 2007]
Round-Up Only last year he reportedly turned down a $1bn takeover bid from Yahoo! Kids these days don't know they're born. While today's young adults embrace mobile technology, social networking and digital music, they're largely unappreciative of the...
[27 Jul 2007]
Comment Yahoo! It varied, but the thrust of the indictment was that Yahoo! Yahoo! What superstar CEO wouldn't covet the opportunity to lead Yahoo! But the dumbest thing Yahoo! The chorus baying for Yahoo! But as much as the financial mandarins hated Semel...
[19 Jun 2007]
Leader A number of prominent internet companies, including Google and Yahoo! So it is interesting that at a Yahoo! Yahoo! The National Union of Journalists in the UK, for example, calls for members to boycott Yahoo!
[13 Jun 2007]
Comment Once registered, use the domain as your email address - nothing looks worse than a Gmail or Yahoo! Mike Barrett explains how consultants can come off looking sharp from the start. From my former life as an IT director, I know from the number of...
[16 May 2007]
Comment Murdoch's News Corp bidding for the venerable company that brings us The Wall Street Journal (not to mention a website that is arguably the real prize), Microsoft and Yahoo! News Corp may yet be outflanked - though a business paper/website play...
[15 May 2007]
Comment Groups use a Yahoo! Welcome to the Freecycle Diaries, in which Natasha Lomas puts the web giveaway service to the test - and shares her experiences, for better and for worse. In this first episode she starts off trying to unload a well-loved sofa.
[10 Apr 2007]
Comment Tomorrow, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, RIM and Yahoo! Mid-February sees one of the most significant events in the mobile industry calendar. It's a crass, expensive party and everyone has an invite - alas, it's not my birthday (also coming up this...
[12 Feb 2007]
Comment Even a Yahoo! All comms in one place? What is that place? I ask that somewhat awkward question because this week has seen some of the biggest names in UK business - especially the most interesting parts of business silicon.com cares about - setting...
[09 Feb 2007]
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