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RSS expanding in newsMicrosoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase
News Search unit head Satya Nadella said Microsoft is also expanding its Facebook relationship into search. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday that its on-again, off-again talks with Yahoo! are firmly in the "off-again" phase. [25 Jul 2008]
Icahn, Yahoo!: Agreement reached
News s valuable collection of assets positions it well to continue expanding its online leadership and enhancing returns to stockholders. Yahoo! has reached a settlement with activist investor Carl Icahn, who will join the internet company's board. [21 Jul 2008]
RIM quarter profits up
News Balsillie said: "To support the anticipated growth in the second half, we have been investing and expanding in a number of areas to ensure that we can scale to meet the opportunity ahead of us. That has included moves such as television advertising... [26 Jun 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News The site was initially restricted to members with email addresses from a handful of elite universities, before gradually expanding to the general public and becoming a genuine Silicon Valley sensation when it kick-started the developer platform... [24 Jun 2008]
Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to retire
News A good part of Sarin's energies have been devoted to addressing Vodafone's concentration of its business in mature Western European markets by expanding into emerging markets - including Romania, Turkey and India. [27 May 2008]
Mothercare web sales boom
News Mothercare is also expanding the clothing ranges and is considering ways of extending the Direct business into international markets. Online sales at Mothercare rose by more than 78 per cent over the last financial year, hitting £85.5m. [22 May 2008]
O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal
News He added: "Our focus is on expanding our service both geographically and also in terms of the customers we want to provide the service to or target. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its... [01 May 2008]
iPlayer loses its Virgin-ity
News The BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin Media's cable service, further expanding the availability of the on-demand TV service. This is the first time iPlayer has been available on a TV platform and will bring full quality BBC programmes to the... [30 Apr 2008]
Say it in pictures - Google mobile ads go graphical
News Google is expanding its advertising business into a new domain: graphical ads that appear on mobile devices. As with the company's text-based mobile ads, the Google image ads are displayed on the basis of keywords that appear on websites that... [24 Apr 2008]
Wanted: Women must save IT industry
News The report says: "Expanding the pool of IT talent is a business and national imperative as an increasing portion of UK GDP can be attributed either directly or indirectly to IT activity. The future of the UK's IT industry hangs on its ability to... [15 Apr 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News But the CDD and others want the FTC to go further by expanding the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (Coppa) to cover teens between 13 and 18 years old. The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the... [10 Apr 2008]
3.5G gizmos mushrooming forth
News He said in a statement: "Our latest survey confirms the rapidly expanding eco-system for HSPA and underlines how the HSPA market has developed much faster than other technologies. There are now 637 high speed downlink packet access products on the... [07 Apr 2008]
Intel registers second-gen Classmate
News Lila Ibrahim, general manager of Intel's emerging market platform's group, said: "We will be expanding into the mature markets, including Europe and the US. Intel has launched its second-generation Classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in... [04 Apr 2008]
RIM doubles quarter profits
News However, Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of RIM, noted on a conference call that RIM is starting to develop more of a following among consumers, expanding beyond its typical business users. BlackBerry maker RIM has reported good fourth-quarter profits... [03 Apr 2008]
SMEs not exploiting web potential
News And that stable relationship actually stops the entrepreneurship of these small businesses thinking about expanding their business scope. Small businesses in the UK are failing to fully exploit the global opportunities offered by the internet. [25 Mar 2008]
